The “Clinics in a Minute” ongoing social media series highlights what it’s like to be a student in the clinics and student practice organizations (SPOs). Check out the videos here!
Check back in as more clinics continue to be added to this page!
Introduction
Featuring Meredith Boak, Assistant Dean for Clinical and Experiential Education and Pro Bono Programs.
Animal Law & Policy Clinic
Featuring Arlene Lopez ’23
The Animal Law & Policy Clinic provides students with direct hands-on experience in animal advocacy on behalf of both captive animals and wildlife, including litigation, legislation, administrative practice, and policymaking.
Consumer Protection Clinic
Featuring Annika Reno ’24
Through the Consumer Protection Clinic, students represent low-income people in cases related to predatory lending and other consumer matters, including bankruptcy and debt collection defense.
Crimmigration Clinic
Featuring Tara Djukanovic ’24
In the Crimmigration Clinic, students work on cutting-edge issues regarding the intersection of criminal law and immigration law.
Cyberlaw Clinic
Featuring Alice Hu ’24
The Cyberlaw Clinic, based at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to appropriate clients on issues relating to the Internet, new technology, and intellectual property.
Dispute Systems Design Clinic
Featuring Kate Strickland ’23
Students in the Harvard Dispute Systems Design Clinic work on advanced client matters related to negotiation, mediation, and conflict management.
Election Law Clinic
Featuring Morgan Hurst ’24.
The Election Law Clinic offers Harvard Law students the opportunity to do hands-on litigation and advocacy work across a range of election law areas, with an initial focus on redistricting and vote suppression cases.
Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic
Featuring Will McCann ’24 & Isaiah Bennett ’25.
The Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic offers students the opportunity to practice environmental law through work on a variety of litigation, administrative, legislative, and policy projects.
Family Justice Clinic
Featuring Arabi Hassan ’23.
The Family Justice Clinic of the Legal Services Center focuses on offering clients legal assistance on divorce, paternity, child and spousal support, protective orders/restraining orders, and family defense.
Food Law and Policy Clinic
Featuring Noelle Musolino ’24.
The Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) provides students with the opportunity to practice using legal and policy tools in order to address the health, environmental, and economic impacts of our food system. Clinic projects aim to increase access to healthy foods, support sustainable and equitable food production, reduce waste of healthy, wholesome food, and promote community-led food system change.
Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinic
Featuring Janet Park ’23.
Students spend the entire Spring Term in Washington, D.C. working as legal interns in a variety of federal offices while taking an evening course on government lawyering.
Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project (HLEP)
Featuring Ben Ho ’23.
The Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project is an SPO that provides legal research and analysis to entrepreneurs in the Harvard and MIT community, answering legal questions over the project cycle of eight to ten weeks.
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Featuring Kaitlyn Ham ’24.
In the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) , students represent indigent clients in civil matters in the Massachusetts courts, before administrative agencies, before legislative bodies, and in various other fora, in areas of housing law, family law, and wage law.
Health Law and Policy Clinic
Featuring Katie Gu ’24.
Students enrolled in the Health Law and Policy Clinic will work on cutting-edge legislative, regulatory, and litigation projects at the state and national levels aimed at increasing access to quality, comprehensive health care for poor and low-income individuals and families.
Housing Law Clinic
Featuring Mohini Tangri ’24.
The Housing Law Clinic represents tenants who are facing evictions by private market and subsidized landlords. Students also have the opportunity to participate in the Housing Justice for Survivors Project which represents tenants facing housing instability as a result of domestic or sexual violence.
Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Featuring Juan Castaño ’23.
The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC), in partnership with Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), seeks to advance immigrants’ rights. Law students take the lead in representing low-income immigrants who are fighting deportation and seeking asylum and other forms of humanitarian protection in the United States.
International Human Rights Clinic
Featuring Christopher Hudson Verde ’25 & Salomé Van Bunnen ’24.
In the International Human Rights Clinic, students work closely with expert clinicians and take the lead on lawyering and advocating for human rights across a range of thematic and geographic areas, using a variety of skills that reflect the diverse modes of human rights practice.
LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic
Featuring Lauren Greenawalt ’24.
In the Harvard LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, students work on cutting-edge issues involving LGBTQ+ rights, with a particular emphasis on issues affecting underrepresented communities within the LGBTQ+ community, including impact litigation and legislative and policy advocacy projects.
Mediation Clinic
Featuring Sam Holloway ’24.
Clinic placements are with the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP), and offer the opportunity to co-mediate disputes filed in local courts with a focus on small claims cases.
Tax Litigation Clinic
Featuring Madison Wulf Elbich ’24.
Students in the Tax Litigation Clinic represent low-income taxpayers in controversies with the IRS to represent taxpayers involving examinations, administrative appeals, collection matters and cases before the United States Tax Court and Federal District Courts.
Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic
Featuring Nathan Lowry ’24 and David Paul ’24
Students in the Clinic work to protect the rights of veterans and their families and persons with disabilities. Students can select among three project areas: the Veterans Justice Project, the Estate Planning Project, and the Safety Net Project.