Clinical and Pro Bono Programs
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Clinical and Pro Bono Programs
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2021 SPO Panel
Calling all 1Ls, LLMs, and transfer students! Join students from all of our Student Practice Organizations (SPOs) to learn about how you can become involved in hands-on practice! Representatives from each SPO will speak about their work and the application process. Information about the SPOS can be found here: https://hls.harvard.edu/dept/clinical/student-practice-organizations-spos/
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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
Faculty on the move
Excerpted from Harvard Law Today With the start of the academic year, a look at the clinical faculty who have joined Harvard Law School, been promoted, or taken on new roles in 2021. Christopher Bavitz WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law; vice dean for experiential and clinical education Harvard Law School’s Christopher T. Bavitz, the WilmerHale Clinical […]
Harvard Law School clinics redouble efforts to assist after eviction moratorium’s end
via Harvard Law Todayby Rachel Reed The expiration two weeks ago of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related moratorium on evictions has caused new uncertainty for the millions of Americans who are behind on rent. And although Congress has approved nearly $47 billion in aid to assist tenants and compensate landlords – particularly […]
Making connections—and a difference—through Student Practice Organizations
via Harvard Law Todayby Rachel Reed Ask students involved with any of Harvard Law School’s 11 Student Practice Organizations (SPOs) why they participate, and one word comes up again and again: community. Community—of friends, of peers, of clients. Of like-minded people looking to make a difference. “For students who are looking for a community of people they […]
Harvard’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation Celebrates Wins in Fight for the Rights of Transgender People
via CHLPI blog This week, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) reported major wins in the courts for the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. The first win came from Kadel v. North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers & State Employees, a lawsuit brought by a small […]
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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