A discussion of why students should become public interest lawyers.

Felicity Conrad and Kristen Sonday are dedicated to closing the justice gap. Their company, Paladin, uses technology to help lawyers and law school students identify legal aid cases.

Big law's pro bono hours increased steadily for 2016.

Winter Term Writing Program Late in the fall term, students who are writing a paper worth two (2) or more writing credits will be able…

Graduating students and their loved ones celebrated with the OPIA staff at OPIA's graduation reception on Thursday, May 25. Congratulations!!

With the help of funding from LIPP, Erika Rickard has worked tirelessly to improve access to justice.

Read the stories of some exceptional pro bono advocates.

Meet the seventeen young community leaders and activists bringing communities together throughout Philadelphia.

Top-notch law professors have launched a website to monitor the legality of President Trump's policies.

Information about English Language Programs, U.S. Law Orientation Programs, and Visa Transfer.

This Fund is intended to provide support for HLS students from any HLS degree program engaged in term time or summer public interest research or work pertaining to Taiwan, the People's Republic of China or Hong Kong.

When: Thursday, April 20,  6-8pm
Where: American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
39 Drumm St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Please RSVP. We look forward to seeing you there!

How we treat citizens who make mistakes (even serious mistakes), pay their debt to society, and deserve a second chance reflects who we are as a people and reveals a lot about our character and commitment to our founding principles. And how we police our communities and the kinds of problems we ask our criminal justice system to solve can have a profound impact on the extent of trust in law enforcement and significant implications for public safety.

This article presents a critical reflection on the disconnect between conventional legal training and the skills needed by lawyers to support low-income communities of color, among others, in addressing US systems of oppression. It is intended to assist aspiring “movement lawyers” in developing their capacity to align their strategic and tactical decision-making with the power dynamics faced by the communities they serve.

After working directly with President Barack Obama as staff secretary, Raj De (HLS '99) served three years as general counsel to the National Security Agency, where he helped steer the agency through perhaps its biggest crisis—the leak of countless classified documents by former contractor Edward Snowden.

John Carlin, the assistant U.S. attorney general for national security, will leave the Department of Justice on Oct. 15

A classroom in Hauser Hall was filled to capacity Monday afternoon as Tom Hardin, a white collar felon and subsequent FBI informant, recounted his experiences with insider trading and federal investigations to about 100 Harvard Law Students.

An HLS study found death penalty cases in Harris County were affected by racial bias, overly aggressive prosecutions and inadequate representation for poor defendants. Three death-row inmates in Harris County have been exonerated.

It’s too soon, in cultural terms, for the court to rule definitively on the subtle issue of transgender rights, which poses powerful equality claims against society’s deeply ingrained male-female gender binaries.