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Clinical and Pro Bono Programs
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2022 Commencement Newsletter
Every year, the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs’ Commencement Newsletter celebrates the achievements of graduating students and their clinical and pro bono experiences with a collection of student reflections, stories, and awards.
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Clinical & Pro Bono Programs
Clinical & Pro Bono Programs
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In-House Clinics
Hands-On Learning
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Hands-On Learning
There are 23 In-house clinics taught by 19 Clinical Professors of Law and more than 70 Clinical Instructors and Lecturers on Law. Each clinic is tied to a classroom component, in which clinical experiences supplement and contribute to further discussion.Explore the Clinics -
Externship Clinics
Hundreds of placements
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Hundreds of placements
There are 15 Externships taught by faculty and experienced attorneys who are experts in their field. Students are placed at government agencies and organizations across the U.S. and supplement that experience through a required course component.Explore the Clinics -
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Independent
Clinical ProgramSet up your own clinical placement
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Clinical ProgramSet up your own clinical placement
The Independent Clinical Program is designed to provide students an opportunity to be entrepreneurial and design a custom placement - in U.S. and abroad - that will meet their individualized learning goals.Explore the Program -
Advanced
Clinical ProgramContinue your clinical work into a new semester
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Clinical ProgramContinue your clinical work into a new semester
With approval of the clinic, the Advanced Clinical Program allows a student to continue their clinical work into subsequent semesters and across academic years.Explore the Program -
Student Practice Organizations
Gain practical legal experience for pro bono credit
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Gain practical legal experience for pro bono credit
While students do not receive academic credit for participating in SPOs, their hours can count towards the 50-hour pro bono graduation requirement starting first day of classes, 1L year.Explore the SPOs
Clinical Spotlight
Clinical Spotlight
Fighting for Equal Treatment of Same-Sex Military Spouses
By Henry Beshar ’22 Via LSC Blog “But you’re not a veteran,” my puzzled mentor remarked after learning that I enrolled in Harvard Law School’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic (VLDBC). “I’m not,” I replied, “but it’s my 3L spring semester. I have some free time and want to help some deserving people.” I […]
New law school casebook for teaching about state attorneys general
By Clea Simon Via Harvard Law Today State attorneys general occupy a unique place in American jurisprudence. All 13 of the original American colonies had an attorney general, as do all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia today, and they collectively try more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any legal […]
CJI student argues for compassionate release in Massachusetts Appeals Court
By Lia Monahon Less than two weeks after his HLS graduation, Isaac Green ’22 stood at the podium in Courtroom 3 of the Massachusetts Appeals Court to argue on behalf of his Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) client, who the Department of Correction refuses to grant compassionate release despite being terminally ill and no longer able […]
Reflections on the Crimmigration Clinic
Via HIRCP Blog Over the past few years, the Crimmigration Clinic at our Program has greatly expanded, and more and more students have been able to learn about the intersection of criminal law and immigration law. Clinical students from the Class of 2022 have been passionate advocates, assisting with case work, litigation efforts, and policy advocacy. Students […]
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Student Life in the Clinical and Pro Bono Programs
Julian Spearchief Morris, the first Native American president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Read Caption
Jin Kim '18 (right), a student with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, testified at a special hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on March 21, 2017, alongside fellow HIRC member, Malene Alleyne LL.M. '17 (left). Read Caption
Two Harvard Law clinicians and four students took part in negotiating the treaty banning nuclear weapons as partners of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently received the Nobel Peace Prize. Read Caption
Dayne Lee '17, at the Massachusetts State House with Eloise Lawrence (far right), clinical instructor in community lawyering and lecturer on law at HLS; and Elvitria Marroquin and one of her two sons. Lee argued on behalf of Marroquin, who has been fighting foreclosure on her home since 2008. Read Caption
Clinical students photographed at a courthouse. Read Caption
Lecturer on Law Rachel Viscomi ’01 (left) moderated the day’s first panel, “Dispute Systems Design: Expanding Horizons.” Panelists included Seanan Fong, HDS ’16, consultant and founder of Cylinder Project and a solo ombudsman to a major tech company; Stacie Nicole Smith, senior mediator and director of Workable Peace at the Consensus Building Institute; Stephan Sonnenberg ’06, faculty Member and clinic expert at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law in Bhutan; and (not pictured) Joseph B. (Josh) Stulberg, Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Read Caption