Class of 2024

"The last time I said goodbye to Ted*, he was upright in his hospital bed, swaddled in his blue hospital gown with a wide smile. As I looked back at him, I wanted to feel happy. I had successfully executed my first full estate plan for this man that had been a stranger only months before. But all I could feel was a sense of sadness that my time with him had come to an end."

"As an advanced clinical student attorney in LSC’s Consumer Protection Clinic, I had the opportunity to argue on my client's behalf in federal court."

"I found my experience in the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic so valuable in large part because it gave me a fuller view of movement lawyering both in the post-settlement phase of litigation and even where litigation isn’t an option."

How Harvard Law’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic is helping a former Marine and small business owner get the benefits he deserves…

"In the Housing Clinic, the law is tangible," writes Melissa Morgan '24.

In the Institute to End Mass Incarceration Clinic, the law is used as one of many tools for supporting communities working to bring about the end of mass incarceration.

Faculty and students in Harvard Law’s Religious Freedom Clinic work on a pair of cases seeking justice for incarcerated Rastafarians whose dreadlocks were shorn by…

Caroline Gillette '24 reflects on her semester at the Roxbury Division of the Boston Municipal Court through the Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic.

n this blog post, Sam Holloway ‘24, student in LSC’s Safety Net Program, discusses how he helped a client fully clear her public record.

SPOs are cherished by HLS students, as an opportunity to explore their own passions from human rights to the arts, and much more. Here’s what students had to say about some of their SPO experiences this year. 

On one side of the office, two students huddled over laptops and papers, writing and re-writing draft after draft. On the other side, another student…

By Olivia Klein Within moments of arriving in Philadelphia in January, Robert Clinton ’24 and Charles Sonenclar ’24 — two Harvard Law students participating in…

Over the course of his 1L year in the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP), Matthew Rock ‘24 saw firsthand the power of the reasonable accommodation letter as…

By Lizzie Wallace ’24 As a native North Carolinian raised on vinegar-based barbeque sauce and purple state politics, I am constantly looking for ways to…