Clinics & SPOs
Religious Freedom Clinic
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Harvard Law’s Religious Freedom Clinic is aiding the Amish
February 4, 2025
An Ohio law requiring an Amish religious sect that shuns technology to attach flashing electric lights to its horse-drawn buggies is now on hold, thanks in part to a student team from Harvard Law School.
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McDaniel named assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law School
February 9, 2024
Joshua C. McDaniel, the director of Harvard Law School’s Religious Freedom Clinic, was named an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law School, effective Jan. 1.
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Fighting for the freedom to practice religion in prison
July 12, 2023
Inmates have long had the freedom to exercise their religion in prison, but Damon Landor, a practicing Rastafarian, had his dreadlocks shaved against his will.
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Supreme Court preview: Groff v. DeJoy
April 7, 2023
Harvard Law’s Religious Freedom Clinic Faculty Director Joshua McDaniel explains how a case before the Court could better protect religious minorities in the workforce
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During Winter Term, Cravath International Fellows pursued independent clinical placements or research projects, exploring legal frameworks and practices in six countries.
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Religious Liberty in Practice
January 31, 2022
The Religious Freedom Clinic gives students real-world experience representing clients on matters involving religious liberty and the First Amendment.
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Supreme Court preview: Ramirez v. Collier
October 20, 2021
Josh McDaniel, director of Harvard’s Religious Freedom Clinic, explains the Supreme Court's upcoming Free Exercise case — and how his clinic is involved.
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Harvard Law School has appointed Joshua C. McDaniel to serve as a visiting assistant clinical professor and as the director of its Religious Freedom Clinic.
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Faith and fellowship
May 18, 2021
Growing up with a father in the Air Force, Mark Gillespie ’21 moved around a lot as a child. But far from this being a negative, Gillespie says it gave him the sense that life’s possibilities were endless.
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James Sonne ’97 to help lead new Religious Freedom Clinic this fall
September 3, 2020
Sonne, who founded a similar program at Stanford, discusses the importance of representing vulnerable, marginalized, and underrepresented clients and communities.
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HLS to create new legal clinic to support rights of vulnerable clients to practice their religion
February 26, 2020
Harvard Law School has launched a new Religious Freedom Clinic. The clinic joins the 46 legal clinics and student practice organizations that make up the school’s clinical program.