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by Grace Yuh The music industry is no stranger to legal dispute. From high-profile cases such as Metallica, et al. v. Napster, Inc. to the many legal…

by Grace Yuh Student Practice Organizations often provide 1Ls, transfer students, and LL.M students with their first opportunity to gain practical legal experience at…

via Variety by Jem Aswad courtesy of Mondo Mondo.NYC, the music and tech conference created by the founders of CMJ Music Marathon,…

By Alev Erhan During my first year of law school, I was eager to get away from the HLS bubble and our classroom hypotheticals by…

  Student Practice Organizations often provide 1Ls with their first opportunity to gain practical legal experience at HLS. Each SPO is typically led by…

By: Felipe Hernandez, JD ’20 Source: Pixabay As a first-generation college student, my parents and I, who worked nightshifts as janitors, never dreamed that one…

Harvard Law School has 11 Student Practice Organizations (SPOs) providing students a wide range of opportunities to gain practical legal experience starting in their 1L year.  Each…

By Lark Turner, J.D. '18 Even then, I learned to leave a red bag full of legal information hanging on the doorknob — a sign to the developer, and to the neighborhood, that we stopped by.

By Thomas Wolfe, J.D. '19—This spring, I went with the Mississippi Delta Project (MDP) to Clarksdale, Mississippi to work on the issue of lead contamination of municipal water supplies in the Mississippi Delta.

By Ming-Toy J.D. '18—For nearly 40 years, TAP has helped tenants and applicants navigate the bureaucracy of subsidized housing in the Greater Boston Area. Having grown up in Throggs Neck Houses in the Bronx, I’ve experienced first-hand many of the challenges that TAP works to address. 

By Thaya Uthayophas J.D. ’18—I came to Harvard Law School because I wanted to make a difference. As an international student from Thailand, however, I wasn’t originally sure how that would manifest.

By Stephanie Schuyler, J.D. '17—Many SPOs here at HLS can provide students with hands-on experience. But what drew me to Defenders was the possibility of centering and lifting the narratives of our clients, who might otherwise be processed by the criminal justice system

Five Harvard Law School students and recent graduates have been awarded Skadden Fellowships to support their work in public service.

By Ryan Sakoda, Student in the Tenant Advocacy Project and Harvard Ph.D. Candidate in Economics Over 100 million individuals, or about one-third of the U.S. population,…

Ashley Lewis, J.D. ’15 By Ashley Lewis, J.D. ’15  The most memorable moments of law school have been walking out of a courtroom with…