Enrollment in this clinic will not fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement.

Required Class Component: This clinic requires that students have taken at least one of the courses listed below.
Additional Co-/Pre-Requisites: The following courses do not have any seats reserved for clinical students: Sports Law: Advanced Contract Drafting (fall 2020); Sports and the Law: Examining the Legal History and Evolution of America’s Three “Major League” Sports: MLB, NFL and NBA (fall 2020); Sports and the Law: Representing the Professional Athlete (winter 2021).
By Permission: Yes. The deadline to apply is October 8, 2020. Please see below for additional instructions.
Add/Drop Deadline: December 4, 2020.
LLM Students: International students on F-1 student visas are required to have Curricular Practical Training (CPT) authorization; LL.M. students are not eligible for CPT.
Placement Site: Various externship placements.

Sports Law clinical placements are in a variety of settings, including legal departments of major leagues or sports franchises, and with law firms and lawyers doing sports law in representing individual players, teams, or leagues. Students’ clinical work in the field can may include contract and transactional work, arbitration, litigation, research, and writing.

Peter Carfagna, instructor of sports law courses at HLS, oversees clinical placements and students’ clinical work. Admission in the clinic is by application. Applications are due by 5pm on October 8, 2020. To apply, please review the Sports Law Clinic Guide before submitting a statement of interest (including which semester you are applying for) and a resume to clinical@law.harvard.edu and to Professor Carfagna (pcarfagna@law.harvard.edu). Please note that your application materials may be sent to placement organizations during the selection process.

This is an externship clinic. Students must have at least one full business day available in their schedule to work on-site at their placement organization. Any remaining clinical hours should be worked in blocks of at least 5 hours. Most placement organizations are open Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm.

Students who are interested in the winter or spring 2019 Sports Law Clinic are strongly encouraged to enroll in both of Prof. Carfagna’s fall courses: “Sports and the Law: Examining the Legal History and Evolution of America’s Three “Major League” Sports: MLB, NFL and NBA” and “Sports Law: Advanced Contract Drafting.”