Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs (OCP)
Wasserstein Hall, Suite 3085
6 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Clinics give students hands-on legal experience under the supervision of attorneys trained in individually educating and mentoring students. With clinical placements in-house and at independent organizations across the country in both public and private sectors, and the opportunity for students to create their own independent placements, HLS offers more clinical opportunities than any law school in the world.
Clinics are open to 2L, 3L, and LL.M. students. Each clinic is tied to a classroom component: students receive clinical credit for their legal practice in clinics and academic credit for the course component. In addition, most clinics allow students to fulfill HLS’s 50 hours pro bono graduation requirement.
By Olivia Klein On Friday, September 16, Election Law Clinic clinical instructor Daniel Hessel led the plaintiff’s oral arguments during Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville’s preliminary injunction hearing, arguing against the use of racially biased redistricting maps in the 2023 and 2024 city council and school board elections. The case was
September 23, 2022
Via Harvard Kennedy School One month after the death of HKS student and trans activist Rodrigo Ventocilla MPA/ID 2023, a panel of experts grappled with a difficult question: is the story of trans rights and trans lives one of progress or setbacks? “On the one hand, in the course of our lifetimes, it seems as
September 22, 2022
By Olivia Klein “It just makes sense.” Samir Hanna, clinical instructor at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center’s (LSC) Housing Law Clinic, smiles and shrugs as he describes the logic of the center’s medical-legal partnership with Mass General Brigham. “It really just makes sense.” Both the Housing Law Clinic and the Family and Domestic Violence Law
September 20, 2022
Via Marketplace Tech By Kimberly Adams and Daniel Shin The First Amendment serves as a check on government intervention into our public expression through, for example, spoken or visually signed speech, writing, protesting and coding languages like JavaScript, HTML, Python and Perl. Computer code as free speech is a relatively new legal concept but has a
September 15, 2022
