Announcements for Students

The Harvard Law School Public Service Venture Fund (PSVF) is currently seeking applications for the 2019-2020 Organization-Based Fellowship year. Current Law Clerks, 3L, and LL.M. students looking to transition into permanent public service careers are eligible to apply. Learn more and apply.

The Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights wants you to know the following:
A Child Protection Certificate Program will be offered  to students across all Harvard graduate schools. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in child welfare/protection. Candidates accepted must complete 12 credits across three domains choosing from a wide list of over 50 qualifying graduate classes across Harvard schools. Additionally there is a bi-weekly spring seminar that brings the candidates together with leaders in the child protection sector. Only 30 students in total will be admitted, so anyone interested should apply soon!
Learn more about the program.

Interested in learning more about public international law work? These resources can help you begin your exploration.

Former Wasserstein Fellow El Cid Butuyan, Head of Unit (CDU) at the World Bank, Integrity Vice-Presidency (INT), will will be advising in OPIA's office on Friday, November 9, between 9:15-11:45 am. Sign up to meet one-on-one with him.

3Ls and Judicial Law Clerks may now apply for the David A. Grossman Fund Fellowship. Learn more and apply!

OCS’s signature fall event for 1Ls, “Masterclass: The Art of Mingling,” on Tuesday, October 23 at 5pm is one of your first opportunities to meet with potential employers. Representatives will be in attendance from 25 national law firms.

In an effort to help guide you in your public sector summer job search and beyond, we’d like to follow up with more details about the 1L advising process.

Connect with an expert on advocacy and community organizing for children's rights by signing up for an appointment with Betsy Fordyce, Director of the Youth Empowerment and Legal Advocacy Program at Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center. Learn more about Ms. Fordyce's background and career.

Note: If there are appointments you would like to attend with a wait list, sign up on the wait list for each appointment. If we have a cancellation, the system automatically invites the next person on the wait list!

The 2019 PMF application is expected to launch at noon (Eastern Time), Tuesday, October 9, 2018, and will close at noon (Eastern Time), Monday, October 22, 2018. 

Learn more about the PMF application timeline. The “2019 PMF Assessment Preparation Guide” is being finalized by the Office of Personnel Management, and OPM says it will be made available on the PMF website soon as possible. Keep checking the PMF website for the updated guide!

October announcements from Harvard University Health Services.

The Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) instructors are available to moot students going through initial and call-back public defender interviews. No need to be a participant in CJI! Please contact Amy Soto to schedule a mock interview.

We look forward to getting to know you in the coming months and to helping you learn more about public interest career opportunities. Although you cannot receive formal career advising until October 15, you can still take affirmative steps now to begin your career exploration.

Every summer, NALP pores over its Postgraduate Fellowship listings on PSJD.org to ensure that students have the most up-to-date information available about host organizations' and sponsor's fellowship plans for the upcoming year. Work on Fellowship listings for the 2018-2019 academic year is now complete. All fellowships posted on the site are searchable through PSJD.org, but students looking for a quick way to plan the timing for their postgraduate fellowship search can visit the PSJD fellowship calendar.

September announcements from Harvard University Health Services.

The drop deadline has now passed for all Fall 2018 clinics.  However, there are a few last-minute openings in the clinics listed below.  If you are interested in claiming one of these open seats, please email Maggie Bay (mbay@law.harvard.edu) a.s.a.p. – open seats will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please keep in mind […]

As of Monday, August 27, there are still a few open clinical seats for the Fall 2018 semester – the drop deadline for these fall clinics is midnight on Tuesday, August 28.  Enroll today in one of the open seats!  Seats are available in Helios Add/Drop and will be claimed on a first-come, first-serve basis. […]

As of Friday, August 24, there are a few open clinical seats for the Fall 2018 semester – the drop deadline for these fall clinics is midnight on Tuesday, August 28.  Enroll today in one of the open seats!  Seats are available in Helios Add/Drop and will be claimed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please […]

Spanish for Public Interest Lawyers is a non-credit class that offers HLS students the opportunity to learn Spanish language skills in a public interest legal context, emphasizing language most commonly used in civil and criminal legal services practice. The class will strengthen existing Spanish speaking and comprehension abilities and teach Spanish legal vocabulary to students involved […]

Please contact Carlos Teuscher (cteuscher@law.harvard.edu) and OCP (clinical@law.harvard.edu) if you would like to register for the Community Enterprise Project (CEP) of the Transactional Law Clinics. CEP is a by-application division of the Transactional Law Clinics in which students engage in transactional legal representation through a community lawyering model. CEP students work with community organizations to […]

August announcements from Harvard University Health Services.