Clinics & SPOs
Cyberlaw Clinic
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From far and wide to master the law
March 20, 2024
Students from across the globe come to Harvard Law School to engage in graduate studies in law as part of Harvard Law School's LL.M. and S.J.D. programs.
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In the comment, the Clinics urge the FEC to clarify the extent of its current statutory authority to regulate the use of AI in election…
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First Gen Empower, founded by Arabi Hassan ’23, enables first-generation, low-income, and immigrant high school and college students to pursue their dreams.
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Henry Beshar and Stacey Menjivar receive 2022 Clinical Legal Education Association Awards
May 24, 2022
Henry Beshar ’22 and Stacey Menjivar ’22 are the recipients of the 2022 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Awards. The awards are presented annually to students…
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Algorithm nation
March 14, 2022
A Harvard Law School reading group debates how the law should manage self-driving cars, A.I.-generated art, and other algorithmic technology.
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Building for the Future
January 25, 2022
With a focus on fostering collaboration and community, the modernist building has been transformed into a 21st-century work environment
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‘It’s good to be back’
September 28, 2021
Harvard Law School employees share what they're looking forward to back on campus.
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Christopher Bavitz appointed Harvard Law School’s vice dean for experiential and clinical education
June 16, 2021
Harvard Law School’s Christopher T. Bavitz, the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law, has been appointed as vice dean for experiential and clinical education.
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Brooke Davies ’21 and Daniel Oyolu ’21 awarded the 2021 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award
May 26, 2021
Brooke Davies ’21 and Daniel Oyolu ’21 have been awarded the 2021 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award.
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HLS staff honored for excellence at virtual ceremony
September 30, 2020
At a virtual ceremony hosted by Dean John F. Manning ’85, 15 members of the Harvard Law School community received the Dean’s Award for Excellence, which recognizes staff members who embody both the letter and spirit of excellence within the Harvard Law School community.
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Two clinics at HLS— the Cyberlaw Clinic and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic—partner on a case involving warrantless device searches at the U.S. border
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A Q&A with Mark Wu on his appointment as vice dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies
August 16, 2020
Mark Wu, the Henry L. Stimson Professor at Harvard Law School, was recently appointed the new vice dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies. He replaces William Alford, who served in the role for the past 18 years.
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Cyberlaw Clinic turns 20
April 9, 2020
It was 1999 and the dot-com bubble was about to burst. Corporations were scrambling to address new legal challenges online. Napster was testing the music industry. And at Harvard Law School, the Berkman Klein Center was creating a clinical teaching program specializing in cyberlaw.
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During Winter Term, 12 Harvard Law School students traveled to 12 countries as Cravath International Fellows to pursue clinical placements or independent research with an international, transnational, or comparative law focus.
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From clinical student to clinical instructor
February 27, 2020
Kendra Albert ’16, former student and current clinical instructor in Berkman Klein Center's Cyberlaw Clinic talks about their takeaways from that experience, their current work, and what they’re the proudest of in their time there.
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The Law and the Digital World
April 3, 2019
Officials from 23 offices of state attorneys general recently met at HLS as part of the Berkman Klein Center’s AGTech Forum series, to discuss tech-driven challenges to privacy and data security that vex state regulators and threaten consumers, and to strategize on how the law can keep up.
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Why your online data isn’t safe
October 3, 2018
In a Q&A with the Harvard Gazette, Urs Gasser LL.M. ’03, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center, discusses what might be done to protect users from companies that profit from people’s data.
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Morality in the Machines
June 26, 2018
Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society are collaborating with MIT scholars to study driverless cars, social media feeds, and criminal justice algorithms, to make sure openness and ethics inform artificial intelligence.