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.
LSC alumna Michelle Lerner ’98 has published a novel, Ring, to excellent reviews. Described as “touching and thought-provoking” by Kirkus Reviews, Ring received a rare starred review from Booklist.
March 7, 2025
The Family Justice Clinic (FJC) continues to obtain critical victories in “fair hearing” cases, which involve the government’s efforts to split up children from their caregivers.
March 7, 2025
The LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, in collaboration with The Bronx Defenders and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, has created a toolkit, Room to Be Me!, on the rights of transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex (TGNCNBI) people in the New York City shelter system.
March 7, 2025
Danielle Mikaelian ’25 reflects on her experience at the Federal Reserve of Boston in its Office of Community Development for the J.D. Admissions Blog.
March 7, 2025
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
