Student Organization Directory

The mission of Harvard Law School African Law Association (HALA) is to unite African students and students interested in Africa, and increase awareness of legal, social and economic issues that shape and concern the continent of Africa.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hala/
Email: hala@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Alliance for Israel (AFI) is a diverse student-run organization dedicated to fostering positive, truthful, and responsible discussion of issues affecting the Jewish State.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/afi/
Email: israel@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Alliance for Reproductive Justice (ARJ) seeks to promote the advancement of reproductive rights and reproductive justice through advocacy on our campus and in our communities, through public-education programming, including campus-wide teach-ins, and through monthly events on a wide range of topics related to reproductive justice: abortion access, reproductive and sexual healthcare, maternal health, racial justice, economic justice, and LGBTQ+ rights. ARJ approaches all our events and advocacy with an intersectional framework and subscribes to the following definition of reproductive justice (developed by Sister Song: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective): reproductive justice is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/reprojustice/
Email: hlsarj@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is comprised of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, policymakers, activists and other concerned individuals who are working to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice are in their rightful, central place in American law.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/acs/
Email: acs@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Animal Law Society is a group of students who care about animals and the issues facing them. HLS Animal Law Society was founded in 1995 as a student chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, a national organization of lawyers engaged in litigation and legislative efforts on behalf of animals. HLS Animal Law Society has four major goals:

1. providing support, education, and work opportunities for students interested in animal rights or welfare law;
2. educating the HLS community about issues facing animals, including institutionalized forms of animal abuse and the means of combating them through legislation and litigation;
3. offering social functions for students interested in vegetarian and vegan food. You don’t need to be a vegetarian to be in HLS Animal Law Society, but we provide many opportunities for you to explore delicious vegetarian and vegan cuisine; and
4. providing assistance to animals who are currently suffering through student fundraising and volunteering.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/animallaw/
Email: animallaw@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Antitrust Association (HLSAA) aims to aid the law school community in understanding antitrust law. Our goal is to support and foster a community committed to the protection of consumers and the promotion of competitive markets.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/antitrust/
Email: antitrust@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Appalachian Harvard Law Students Association (APPSA) is a community that brings together students with a background or interest in Appalachia. We support each other and the region, host cultural events, and share our identity with the rest of campus to shed light on one of America’s most misunderstood areas. All students with an interest are welcome, regardless of geographic origins!

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/appsa/
Email: appsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Armed Forces Association (AFA) is an organization composed of veterans, active duty military service members, and those who are either interested in joining or supporting the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/armedforces/
Email: hlsafa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Armenian Students’ Association (ALSA) provides a forum for students to explore legal issues relevant to Armenia and Armenians. The Association nurtures deep and sustained engagement on topics including Armenian Genocide recognition and reparations; legal advocacy for endangered Christian minorities in Turkey, Syria, and the wider Middle East; and development and rule of law in the Republic of Armenia. In addition to cultivating legal discussion, ALSA also connects students to a wide array of Armenian-related educational, cultural, religious, and social programs.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/alsa/
Email: alsa@mail.law.harvard.edu 

The Harvard Law School Art Law Organization (HALO) is focused on the practice and study of art law and dedicated to giving students an opportunity to learn more about this area of the law and legal practice within it, as well as to building community for students around their shared interest. It achieves these goals by hosting events with lawyers working in the art world in various capacities, such as working for museums/galleries, foundations funding the arts, government arts organizations, and representing artists pro bono, as well as spanning various art law issues, including art-related contract drafting, copyright, provenance litigation, ownership litigation, repatriation litigation, and First Amendment issues. The organization also plans other art-law-related events, such as museum and gallery trips, as well as providing networking opportunities relating to art law practice.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/halo
Email: artlaw@mail.law.harvard.edu

The mission of the Harvard Law School AI Student Association (AIA) is to convene law students interested in the governance of advanced AI systems and to ensure that transformational AI technologies have positive consequences for the world. AIA hosts regular student meet-ups, convenes speaking events and panels, and promotes public interest careers related to AI. To contact us, please reach out at ai@mail.law.harvard.edu.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/ai/

Email: ai@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School’s Asia Law Society (HALS) is a prominent organization at Harvard Law School that brings together students with a common interest in Asia. HALS is extremely diverse and international, with past and current members from not only East Asia and North America, but also from South Asia, Latin America, and beyond.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hals/
Email: hals@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) is a political, academic, community service, and social group dedicated to fostering a supportive atmosphere for Asian Pacific American students at Harvard Law School. APALSA strives to promote a greater understanding of Asian Pacific American issues and culture, serve as a vehicle for Asian Pacific American political activity, and provide a social and academic network for Asian Pacific Americans and the Harvard Law School community.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/apalsa/
Email: apalsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

Harvard Law School Students Association for Birdwatching (SAB) exists in order to connect students with the activity of birdwatching. Throughout each semester, SAB will foster a community of birdwatching on campus through meetings, events, and other related activities. The club will strive to instill in its members the values of mindfulness, conservation, and outdoorsmanship through birding.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/sab/
Email: birds@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Association for Insight & Meditation (AIM) seeks to build and grow a community of future lawyers who aspire to understand the nature of consciousness through Buddhist and other meditation traditions. It serves as a home for those already engaged in the investigation of lived experience and as an introduction to meditation & insight for those who are unfamiliar. AIM encourages members to aim attention back upon itself to better understand the way it shapes experience. It is grounded in the principles of non-dogmatic, experiential learning. Instead of saying “this is true” it says “I find this to be true about my experience. See if it is true for you, right here and now.”

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/aim/
Email: aim@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Association for Law and Business (HALB) connects students with prominent leaders across the business and legal communities. Each year, HALB hosts numerous speakers to discuss their careers and areas of expertise, while also creating outside opportunities for members to meet like-minded students and practitioners interested in non-legal business careers. Over the past several years we have hosted events with luminaries across business, law, and finance, as well as those featuring most of the top law firms, investment banks, and management consultancies.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/halb/
Email: halb@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Association for Real Estate and Law (HREL) is an active community for Harvard Law School students to explore their interests in all facets of the real estate industry, including legal practice, development, investing, financing, and land-use policy. HREL brings distinguished practitioners to campus as guest speakers, organizes career treks, hosts networking and professional training sessions, and advocates for additional real estate focused academic offerings on campus. HREL welcomes all current students and alumni looking to further develop their industry knowledge, connect with peers who have similar interests, and pursue professional opportunities.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hrel/
Email: hrel@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Beeritas, a student-run organization, is the official Beer Appreciation Society of Harvard Law School. That’s right, if you were afraid your beer-drinking days were over now that you are a big bad law student, we’re here for you. Come join us for bi-weekly tastings, beer-themed events, and trips to local breweries throughout the semester to take advantage of HLS’s location in such a great city for beer. All in all, Beeritas is a place for people who care about beer in all shapes, sizes, and styles. If all of this sounds too good to be true, then welcome to Beeritas!

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/beeritas/
Email: beeritas@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory is to build learning spaces at HLS dedicated to Critical Race Theory as a lens with which to view and critique the law, where students can study and understand law, policy, and customs as an unjust system of domination perpetuated by historically privileged groups, and that build a community that seeks to reimagine lawyering as a profession.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/thebellcollective/
Email: bellcollective@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Black Law Students Association (HBLSA) was founded in 1967. Today, HBLSA has grown to become the largest chapter in the National Black Law Students Association. Counting over 160 members annually, HBLSA reflects the strong Black community that is so integral to the diversity of Harvard Law School. The Black Law Students Association of Harvard Law School exists for the support, guidance and direction of Black students in academic, professional and social endeavors.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/blsa/
Email: blsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Blockchain and FinTech Initiative (HLSBFI) is the first student-led initiative aimed at promoting education and career-development for law students interested in working in industries that utilize blockchain and financial technologies. The Initiative will expose students to the plethora of legal issues that arise in enterprise and institutional applications of blockchain and financial technology.

We hope to facilitate learning within the Harvard Law School community and beyond by hosting speakers, offering hands-on projects, and connecting students to scholars, practitioners and industry specialists. We hope to encourage students to build relationships, and serve as a hub to deliver internships and full-time employment to students passionate about the impact of technology on the financial industry. Finally, we hope to establish Harvard Law School as a leader scholarship on the legal issues affecting blockchain application and the financial technology industry.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hlsbfi/
Email: hlsbfi@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Board of Student Advisers (BSA) is a student organization charged with providing several essential services to the Harvard Law School community: we serve as teaching assistants in the First Year Legal Research and Writing Program, as peer advisers to members of the first-year class and transfer students, and as administrators of the Ames Moot Court competition.

Our Mission is to build a community, both among first-year students and among the diverse student body of the Harvard Law School.

We are unique among student organizations in that our role is both to provide opportunities for students to engage with intellectually challenging legal problems and to serve as a support network for students going through the challenging academic and personal transition to law school.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/bsa/
Email: bsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association (HLS BR) is an institution that intends to promote the collaboration between students, scholars, professionals, and individuals who are interested in discussing various issues related to Brazil and Brazilian culture.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/brazil/
Email: hlsbr@mail.law.harvard.edu

In addition to providing practical support, eh? The Harvard Law School Canadian Law Students Association (CLSA) will also provide a place for community. Providing peer-to-peer support within the Canadian legal market, links to alumni, and advice on which courses travel well from HLS.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/canadian/
Email: canadian@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Caribbean Law Students Association (HCLSA) seeks to engage the Harvard Law School community in legal issues impacting the Caribbean diaspora and create and affinity space for those who identify with Caribbean cultures.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/caribbean/
Email: caribbeanlaw@mail.law.harvard.edu 

The Harvard Law School Catholic Law Students Association (CLSA) is the on-campus home for Catholic students, faculty, and friends in the Harvard Law School community.  The Catholic community at HLS is open to anyone and everyone who is curious about spiritual enrichment, community service, and fellowship.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/clsa/
Email: clsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) is an officially recognized student-run organization at Harvard Law School (“HLS”) that brings together students, faculty, and outside parties who have an interest in law, politics, or business in China. The primary goal of the CLA is to promote the awareness of matters relating to China at and beyond Harvard Law School. Our values are inclusivity, community, democracy and transparency. We welcome participation of all HLS students and scholars and foster a spirit of community, compassion and mutual support among all our members.

We organize academic and social events related to Chinese law, business, culture and society through the school year and we collaborate with student organizations from Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty of Arts and Science of Harvard University. We have over three hundred current members and hundreds of alumni.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/
Email: chinalaw@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Christian Fellowship (HLSCF) is a diverse community of students, scholars, and families. Established in 1968, HLSCF is an official, independent, student-led group at HLS and benefits from historic partnerships with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the Christian Legal Society, and the Harvard Chaplains.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cf/
Email: hlscf@mail.law.harvard.edu

Christian Union at Harvard Law School (CU) is a community of students and their families who love Jesus, and who desire to share that love to the growing community at HLS. As a student organization with partnerships with Christian Union, we seek to study the Bible rigorously, pray for revival relentlessly, and watch as the power of God changes lives.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/christianunion/
Email: christianunion@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Coalition of International Students and Global Affairs (CISGA) exists to (1) improve student life for international students at HLS and (2) advocate for international students, resources, and opportunities at HLS.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cisga/
Email: cisga@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law (CSEL) is the heart of sports and entertainment activity at HLS. CSEL works to bring together students and faculty who are interested in the intersection of the sports and entertainment industries and the law.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/csel/
Email: csel@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law Couples and Families Association (HLCFA) is a social organization for students and their significant others (girl/boyfriends, fiancés, spouses, partners, and children). The organization offers many activities and resources to provide support and a community for those students who have come to Harvard with significant others or families.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hlcfa/
Email: hlcfa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Democrats (HLS Dems) provides a means for Democrats at HLS to become involved in national, state, and local politics, to meet alumni with similar career goals, and to gain insight into the world of politics through organization trips and interactions with guest speakers.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/democrats/
Email: hlsdems@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Disabled Law Students Association (DLSA) is an open and inclusive organization dedicated to providing a community and supporting students with all types of disabilities at HLS, and to the advancement of equal rights for individuals with disabilities at Harvard and beyond. DLSA is also a community for Students with Disabilities and Allies who are seeking to pursue a career in Disability Law or Advocacy. DLSA seeks to provide a community to raise, discuss and act on the legal issues facing the HLS disability community and the Disability community writ large.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/dlsa/
Email: dlsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Doctor of Juridical Science Association (SJD), commonly known as the SJD Association, is the organization representing candidates in Harvard Law School’s S.J.D. program—the most advanced law degree offered by the school. The S.J.D. is designed for aspiring legal academics seeking to engage in sustained, independent research, writing, and scholarship. In recent years, our vibrant intellectual community has brought together around 60 S.J.D. candidates—most of whom are in residence and hail from 25 to 30 countries worldwide. Drawn primarily from among Harvard’s top LL.M. graduates, these scholars are preparing for academic careers, with most securing top teaching positions in their home countries, the United States, and other nations.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/sjd/
Email: sjdassociation@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Mission of the Harvard Law School Drama Society (HLSDS /Parody) is to provide an outlet for creative expression on campus. The Drama Society typically produces a straight play or musical in the fall, as well as the annual HLS Parody in the spring.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/drama/
Email: drama@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Environmental Law Society (HELS) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization directed and staffed by students at Harvard Law School. HELS was founded in 1970 by three Harvard Law students who perceived a pressing need for the Law School, and the law in general, to respond more effectively to the nation’s environmental problems.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/els/
Email: els@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Equal Democracy Project aims to dismantle the political barriers to our currently unequal democracy in the United States. We seek to end gerrymandering and voter suppression, challenge the outsized influence of money in politics, and reform the electoral process to more accurately represent the people. Equal Democracy achieves this by organizing events on campus, holding voter engagement drives, partnering with external organizations on democracy-related research projects, and engaging in digital advocacy.

Website:  https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/equaldemocracy/
Email: equaldemocracy@mail.law.harvard.edu

Being the only Harvard Law student association predominantly focused on European (Union) law, The Harvard Law School European Law Association (HELA) hosts a wide range of activities. From lunch talks with Judges of the Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, to events and conversations with European and international professors, law firm partners, and other experts, HELA aspires to unite Harvard with the spirit of Europe. Our activities include an annual spring symposium, traditionally hosting renowned practitioners, judges, academics, policymakers, and lobbyists in European law from across the globe.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hela/
Email: hela@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Fashion Law Association (HFLA) is an officially recognized student-run organization of Harvard Law School. Membership in this organization is open to all HLS students.

The Harvard Law School Federalist Society (FEDSOC) is a group of conservative, libertarian, and moderate law students. Our chief goal is to foster balanced and open debate about the fundamental principles of individual freedom, limited government, and judicial restraint. Membership is open to all: our members hold diverse and often conflicting views on a broad range of issues.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/fedsoc/
Email: fedsoc@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School FiLM Society (a.k.a. Film, Literature, & Media) Society is a student organization exploring the many intersections between the law and narrative arts. We seek to create community among students and professionals with a shared interest in legal advocacy and storytelling through screenings, workshops, discussions, and social events. We invite all filmmakers, journalists, artists, writers, curators, and anyone else interested in harnessing the power of art and storytelling to join us.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/filmsociety/
Email: filmsociety@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School First Class is an inclusive and intersectional space for first-generation college students and students from low-income backgrounds to share and affirm our experiences, advocate for our communities, attend to our well-being, advance accessibility within the legal profession, and support our career aspirations.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/firstclass/
Email: firstclass@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Florida Club (HLSFC) is an officially recognized student-run organization of Harvard Law School. Membership in this organization is open to all HLS students.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lsfc

The Harvard Law School Food Law Society (FOODSOC) provides students with hands-on exposure to the numerous issues in law, policy, science and management that confront professionals in the fields of food law and food policy. Members participate in clinical projects and conferences, host speakers, take trips and collaborate with groups throughout the University and the world in their effort to address food issues.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/foodlaw/
Email: foodlawsociety@mail.law.harvard.edu

Health Law Society

The Harvard Law School Health Law Society (HHLS) is a diverse organization united by an interest in health policy, health care law, biotechnology, bioethics, health and human rights, and a range of other health and law topics, with an eye toward a more just, ethical, and healthy society.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hlhcs/
Email: healthlaw@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Human Rights and Business Association (HuB) brings together students who have an interest in the continuously developing field of business and human rights, corporate responsibility and accountability. The organization engages students from all Harvard schools and other universities in the greater Boston area in events, workshops and seminars, and provides a space where students can learn more about the field, network with experts, as well as explore future career opportunities.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hub/
Email: hubs@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School In Vino Veritas serves to introduce interested members of the Harvard Law School community to the exciting world of wine at formal tastings, informal blind tasting workshops, and tasting dinners at area restaurants.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/vino/
Email: invinohls@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Intellectual Property Law Association (IPLA) is an active community for Harvard Law School students to explore their interests in intellectual property, including patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets. IPLA is a space for HLS students to connect with employers in the intellectual property law space, learn about new developments from distinguished practitioners and academics, gain from networking and professional training sessions, and build community among students interested in intellectual property law at HLS.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hipla/
Email: hipla@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School International Arbitration Law Students Association (HIALSA) dedicates exclusively to promote international arbitration! A group of Harvard Law School students, passionate about international arbitration, proposed to the Board of Students the creation of HIALSA to offer a forum for students to learn about and discuss emerging topics in international arbitration and to develop connections between students and successful practitioners.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hialsa/
Email: hialsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School JD/MBA Students Association (JD/MBA) supports JD/MBA students with job applications and interviews, organize events on topics impacting business and the law, and schedule treks to visit law firms, investment firms and innovative companies.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/jdmba/
Email: jbmba@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School JD/MPP Joint Degree Law Students Association (JD/MPP) supports and encourages students seeking an interdisciplinary education in government, public policy, and law, and prepares them for leadership positions in public service.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/jointdegree/
Email: jdmpp@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Jessup Moot Court Team competes annually in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the world’s largest and most prestigious moot court competition first held at Harvard in 1960. Today, the Jessup draws law students from over 100 countries and jurisdictions, with each team presenting arguments as part of a fictional dispute between states before the International Court of Justice. Participants prepare written and oral pleadings to address timely issues of public international law, arguing both the applicant and respondent positions of the case before a panel of judges.

Our team consists of four oralists and one of counsel each year, and tryouts for the positions are held in the fall. 1Ls, 2Ls and 3Ls interested in the practice of international law are encouraged to apply. The team also works closely with LLMs, so please reach out if you have prior experience with the Competition.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/mootcourt/jessup/
Email: jessup@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) is the affinity group for Jewish law students at Harvard Law School, running social, educational, cultural, and religious programming for all Jewish law students regardless of background or affiliation.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/jlsa/
Email: jlsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine (JFP) is a student group founded in 2000 after the start of the second Intifada in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. JFP is a community of HLS students concerned about the lack of campus-wide debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the at large misperceptions of the fundamental issues related to Palestine. JFP is committed to a secular, humanist, and legalistic approach to dialogue about Israel/Palestine and seeks to advocate the rights of the Palestinian people.

Email: jfp@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Korean Association of Harvard Law School (KAHLS) is a network of Korean students at Harvard Law. The organization’s goal is to develop a bond among the Korean JDs and LLMs and to function as a bridge between HLS and the larger, university-wide Korean community. It also provides information on events and news of the Harvard community that may be of particular interest to Korean students. Most of all, we are a close bunch and a good group of friends!

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/kahls/
Email: kahls@mail.law.harvard.edu

La Alianza at Harvard Law School (La Alianza) is an organization dedicated to providing support to Latino/a students at Harvard Law School and increasing understanding of the issues that face Latinos in the United States. La Alianza provides academic and career placement assistance for its members.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/alianza/
Email: alianza@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Labor and Employment Action Project (LEAP) is an organization of students interested in labor and employment issues. We feel that the power of working people to organize themselves has become more, not less, essential in today’s changing economy, and undertake to explore and support such organization. Therefore, our activities include both education of ourselves and our community on labor and employment issues, and activism where we see a need to lend our voices to local or national struggles.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/leap/
Email: labor@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Lambda (HLS Lambda) is a community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer and allied students at Harvard Law School. As a social and political student organization, Lambda provides programming and events to serve LGBTQ students and allies at HLS. Lambda also plays an active role in the LGBTQ rights movement by organizing and sponsoring conferences, networking with national LGBTQ rights leaders, and connecting students with research and academic opportunities and activism related to gender and sexuality.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lambda/
Email: lambda@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Latter-day Saints (HLLDS) is made up of HLS students and their families who are members of, or interested in, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. HLLDS provides support for students seeking to maintain a spiritual foundation during their study of the law and allows members to associate with other students who have similar religious backgrounds and interests. HLLDS became an official chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society in 2005.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lds/
Email: latterdaysaints@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Law & International Development Society (LIDS) is the premier student-run organization at Harvard University focused on issues at the intersection of law, policy and international development. LIDS members are graduate students at Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School of Government, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and other graduate schools in the Boston area.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/
Email: lids@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Law & Political Economy Association (LPEA) is a student organization at Harvard Law School formed with the aim of promoting scholarship and teaching that investigates how legal practice has been central to the growth economic inequality and how legal tools may be repurposed to respond to this problem. The Group aims to bring questions of political economy to the center of law school life through activities such as a regular speaker series, workshops to develop alternative curricula, and to develop a cases-and-materials book that would act as a ready reference for a law-and-political economy canon.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lpesa/
Email: harvardlpe@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Law & Technology Society (HLTS) is Harvard’s premier student organization for examining the way technology impacts the law. We use hackathons, collaborations with the Library Innovation Lab and independent research on legal tech law to probe the essential relationship between emerging technologies, legal practice and governance.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/techsoc/
Email: techsoc@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Lex et Cannabis (LeC) is dedicated to fostering a student community at Harvard Law School interested in the legal study of cannabis, including but not limited to: legislation, regulation, criminalization, legalization, corporate and business law, economics, environmental law, and criminal justice.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lec/
Email: cannabis@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Middle Eastern Law Students Association (MELSA) is an affinity group created to serve and bring together Middle Eastern and North African students at Harvard Law. MELSA’s mission is threefold: (1) to build a cultural community amongst Middle Eastern and North African law students and alumni, (2) to further the professional and academic development of its members, and (3) to organize around political and legal issues that impact Middle Eastern and North African communities.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/melsa/
Email: melsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Mock Trial Association (HLSMTA) is a nationally recognized trial advocacy program that competes against other highly ranked law schools throughout the country in both civil and criminal cases. We hold tryouts each Fall, inviting everyone with an interest in trial advocacy. Whether you are a college mock trial veteran or new to the courtroom, we are excited to have you!

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/mocktrial/
Email: mocktrial@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) is a student-run organization that serves Muslim law students by acting as a nexus of community-building, increasing awareness of issues that particularly impact Muslims, and building campus wide coalitions with other organizations dedicated to pluralism and meaningful discourse.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/muslim/
Email: mlsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. It seeks to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/nlg/
Email: hlsguild@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School National Security & Law Association (NSLA)’s only objective is to promote discourse on national security at Harvard Law School. The organization brings distinguished national security scholars and practitioners to campus for lunchtime lectures, assists members with career advice and networking opportunities, provides academic resources to the entire Harvard community, and produces high-quality reports on pressing national security matters.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/nsla/
Email: nsla@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) is a student-run organization dedicated to fostering a supportive atmosphere for Native American students at Harvard Law School, and is composed of Native American law students and students interested in issues affecting the Native community.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/nalsa/
Email: nalsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Plaintiffs’ Law Association (HPLA) exists to support law students looking to become plaintiff-side attorneys who will represent the interests of victims, advocate for consumers’ rights and equal access to justice, and ensure that any person who is injured by the misconduct or negligence of others can obtain justice in America’s courtrooms, even when taking on the most powerful interests.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hpla
Email: hpla@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) is for students standing at the intersection of marginalized communities, entering Harvard Law School can be an emotionally taxing endeavor. As a new student affinity group, QTPOC imagines a community in which queer and racial/ethnic identities receive equal weight. This enables collaboration with queer and POC affinity groups while also enabling tailored discussions on topics and issues uniquely relevant to queer and trans individuals that identify as people of color.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/qtpoc/
Email: QTPOC@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Republicans (HLSGOP) aim to provide a social community for moderate and conservative Republicans and to represent the ideals of the Republican Party on the HLS campus. We bring speakers to campus, provide a forum for the discussion of current events, and assist our members in becoming active in local and national politics.

Website:https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/gop/
Email: hlsrepublicans@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Running Association (HLRC) is an officially recognized student-run organization of Harvard Law School. Membership in this organization is open to all HLS students.

The Harvard Law School Scales of Justice is HLS’s very own co-ed a cappella ensemble! We are a close-knit group of 10–15 singers from various musical backgrounds dedicated to bringing harmony to Harvard Law.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/scales
Email: scales@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA) provides a forum for those in the Harvard Law School community interested in South Asian American and South Asian legal issues.

SALSA aims to seed dialogue in the legal, cultural, and political contexts through lectures, panels, film screenings, and social events and to connect students to legal professionals and firms interested in diversity outreach.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/salsa/
Email: salsa@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Space Law Society (HSLS) seeks to promote the study, practice, and development of space law on campus. Space Law Society hosts speakers, organizes field trips, and coordinates social events to further education and enthusiasm about space law.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/space
Email: space@mail.law.harvard.edu

The primary and most important purpose of Student Government is to advocate for the interests of the student body, to the faculty, administration, and others whose decisions affect student life at HLS. Student Government also serves to:

1. To organize and provide services to the student body, to the extent that those services are not provided
   by HLS.
2. To organize events that promote campus-wide community-building.
3. To oversee the formation of student groups at HLS.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/studentgovernment/
Email: studentgov@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Students for Open Inquiry (Open Inquiry) is a non-partisan and ideologically-neutral organization for the promotion of open inquiry. All views are welcomed and every idea is interrogated with rigor, good faith, and good humor.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hlsoi/
Email: openinquiry@mail.harvard.law.edu

The Harvard Law School Survivor Justice Coalition (HLS SJC) is a community of survivors and allies at Harvard Law School dedicated to: advocating for survivors in the practice of law; furthering our understanding of the anti-sexual violence movement and its intersections with racial justice, gender justice, economic justice, and disability justice; and supporting survivors at HLS and in the greater Boston community. We are committed to prioritizing intersectionality in our advocacy for survivors, recognizing that BIPOC and trans communities, people who are incarcerated, and individuals with disabilities experience the highest rates of sexual violence. We reject carceral feminism and stand in solidarity with decarceration. We look to restorative and transformative justice as the future of the anti-sexual violence movement as they prioritize the needs of survivors and addressing the root causes of harm.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/sjc/
Email: survivorjustice@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Tax Law & Financial Regulation Students Association (TaxFin) is a student organization with the purpose to introduce students to two of the most complex areas of law-tax law and financial regulatory law. Providing practical insight when it comes to questions regarding equality, fair chances, and distribution of wealth that compliment in-class education.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/taxlaw/
Email: taxfin@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Texas Club (TX Club) is a student-run organization at Harvard Law School that exists to create a social and professional network within the Law School community for Texans, future Texans, and folks who just happen to enjoy barbecue, tacos, Blue Bell, and Shiner.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/texas/
Email: texasclub@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Tzedek Students Association (Tzedek) is a community of Jewish students who are interested in social justice and pro-Palestinian advocacy. We are a safe space to explore Judaism beyond Zionism, always grounded in Palestinian dignity and humanity. Our organization is not an ideological monolith, and we often explore, unlearn, and struggle together in pursuit of tzedek (justice). We are an inclusive community for queer Jews, Jews of color, Jews by choice, and anyone else who wants to be a part of our community — you are Jewish enough, no matter what traditions you were raised with or keep today.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/tzedek/

Email: tzedek@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School West Coast Club (WCC)’s mission is to provide a platform for community building at Harvard Law School for students from, or those interested in working in, the West Coast region of the United States. The West Coast Club is dedicated to supporting the academic, personal, and professional development of its membership. The West Coast Club’s goals include educating West Coast Club members about West Coast’s legal landscape, fostering long-lasting professional relationships, assisting HLS students in identifying, applying, and securing employment opportunities, as well as providing a forum for cultural exchange and integration.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/westcoast/
Email: westcoast@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Women’s Law Association (WLA) is a diverse, non-partisan, feminist and womanist organization committed to building a vibrant and supportive community for women during their time at Harvard Law School and beyond. In furtherance of this mission, we advocate for gender equity and bolster women in pursuit of their professional and personal goals. We empower our members with academic resources, mentorship, and professional development opportunities while providing members and alumnae with a lasting community.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/wla/
Email: wla@mail.law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Law School Yoga Association (HLSYA) is dedicated to promoting the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the Harvard Law School (HLS) community through the practice of yoga. Our mission is grounded in the pursuit of three core intentions: (i) to cultivate physical, mental, and spiritual well-being among our members by offering a space for mindfulness and movement during their demanding legal studies; (ii) to instill in our membership a practice of lasting joy and peace and a culture of compassion for oneself and all sentient beings; and (iii) to foster a kind and inclusive community that supports the path of all human beings towards truth, justice, and freedom from suffering.

Website: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hlsya/
Email: hlsyoga@mail.law.harvard.edu