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.
According to a panel of Harvard Law professors gathered to discuss the role of democracy and the courts during the Trump administration’s first hundred days, the answer is no, at least not yet.
February 28, 2025
Louis Lin'25 and Tamara Shamir'25 will soon embark on two-year fellowships pursuing public interest law on a full-time basis as recipients of the 2025 Skadden Fellowship.
February 27, 2025
“For a food waste deterrence policy to work, it must tip the scales so that it is more expensive to throw away food than to get surplus food to people who need it or to send scraps for recycling,” says Heather Latino, an instructor at the Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
February 25, 2025
Premal Dharia is the recipient of the 2024 Albert J. Krieger Champion of Liberty Award.
February 24, 2025
In her first year as a student attorney in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB), Maddy Scannell ‘26 has helped to secure thousands of dollars in judgments for low-wage Boston-area workers.
February 20, 2025
By Samara Trilling ’25 I grew up in a circle of four houses in Northern California. My best friend lived in the front house, and I lived in the back. Every house had two kids, all within 8 years of each other. We’d ride our bikes around the lamppost in the middle of the shared
February 14, 2025
Joan Steffen, an attorney with the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, worked with the Appalachian Rekindling Project to purchase the land. Steffen said the land purchase is a win not just for Letcher County, but for the country as well.
February 14, 2025
