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. With clinical placements in-house and at organizations across the country, and the opportunity for students to create their own independent placements, HLS students participate in more clinical placements 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.
In this Q&A, Peter Goeckner'25 discusses his experiences in the Education Law Clinic, his passion for promoting access to high-quality public education, and his work in Kentucky on a novel litigation model that could have nationwide impact.
January 21, 2025
“It was like a bomb had gone off,” said John Willshire Carrera, assistant director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services, who represented many of the families in their legal cases, pro bono.
January 17, 2025
The elaborate regulatory process for removing an additive from the food supply can certainly result in litigation, said Emily Broad Leib, director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School. “The Delaney clause probably works a lot better at the outset if you’re trying to add a new substance to food,”
January 17, 2025
“There’s a long story to be told about the Forest Service and the Ninth Circuit,” said Andrew Mergen, a professor of environmental law at Harvard Law School. “Some members of the court had a skepticism or distrust of the USFS.”
January 17, 2025
Via Law360By Britain Eakin Refugees International fired off a lawsuit in D.C. federal court on Friday to pry loose records from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services about its use of artificial intelligence to process asylum applications, saying the agency has stonewalled its request for nearly two years. The nonprofit humanitarian organization says the public knows
January 13, 2025
Jonathan Wroblewski reflects on a semester teaching the Government Lawyer: U.S. Attorney Clinic: “We need to have the courage to see past competition, existing patterns and culture, and politics, and to envision moral greatness – in prosecution, and all manner of public and not-public service – and then to find a way to try to
January 7, 2025
Professional cellist Krysta Hyppolite'25 came to law school after seeing firsthand the challenges facing working musicians.
January 3, 2025
