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Spring Break Pro Bono Trip
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Spring Break 2019: Private Probation in Giles County
April 23, 2019
By: Jimmy Biblarz J.D. ‘21 jimmy biblarz ’21 The informal slogan I heard from respondents was “Come to Pulaski for vacation, leave on probation.”…
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By: Alexis Farmer “I found it very rewarding to be doing work that actually helped people in detention,” said Joseph Tahbaz JD ’20. He…
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Needing Proof of Property Ownership in Puerto Rico
April 15, 2019
By: Daniel Oyolu JD ‘21 From left to right: Brian Beaton, JD ’21, Mayor Mayita Meléndez, and Daniel Oyolu JD ’21 When I first learned…
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Facing unexpected realities in North Carolina
April 12, 2019
By: Merve Ciplak J.D. ’21 Credit: Lee Mestre As an international student that had never been to the South, my understanding of North Carolina was…
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Against All Odds at the South Texas Detention Center
April 11, 2019
By: Krista Oehlke J.D. ‘20 Credit: Krista Oehlke Most immigrants at the South Texas Detention Center (STDC) in Pearsall, Texas will bide their time, in…
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To Seek Refuge in Texas
April 11, 2019
By: Madeline Kane J.D. ‘21 Madeline Kane is the third from left in all black It’s 4:50am, and I’m up before my alarm sounds. The…
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Restoring El Caño From Within
April 11, 2019
By: Alexis Farmer A square block of tires serves as a fortress, protecting the browned soil. It is the only space in the immediate area…
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Natalie Trigo Reyes ’19 wants to help vulnerable communities—starting at home in Puerto Rico
April 5, 2018
After Hurricane Maria roared over Puerto Rico in September 2017, crippling the island where Natalie Trigo Reyes ’19 grew up and where much of her family still lived, she felt “completely overwhelmed.” Within days, however, she put together an event that raised about $40,000 for relief efforts, collected enough emergency goods to fill three large trucks, and joined Harvard Law Professor Andrew Manuel Crespo ’08 and Lee Mestre of the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs to plan the school’s response to the disaster.
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Spring Break with Project Citizenship
April 3, 2018
Over Spring Break, I had the opportunity to work with Project Citizenship, a Boston-based organization that exists to help Legal Permanent Residents become United States citizens. I had an amazing experience that enabled me to jump right into working with clients, including providing direct representation at a USCIS citizenship interview.
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Law students help to mend Puerto Rico
March 30, 2018
From Harvard Gazette—For five days, HLS students helped dozens of people in eight municipalities across the island file appeals with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for disaster relief assistance.
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From Christian Science Monitor—From Boy Scouts to Harvard Law, many students from the US mainland are spending vacation time volunteering here: helping to clear debris, navigate FEMA forms, and restore damaged forests.
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Examining lead contamination in the Mississippi Delta
March 21, 2018
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.
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2017 Spring Break Pro Bono Trips—Our enthusiastic team of eight HLS students and one supervising attorney ventured into the state of Queretaro, Mexico to provide free tax services for migrant workers in coordination with Centro de Derechos de Migrante (CDM).
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By Brian Klosterboer J.D. ’16 Five students traveled to Uganda over spring break to work on pending litigation that could advance human rights protections for lesbian,…
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By Lydia Mwalimu Adude, LL.M. ’16 They say that the market is flooded with lawyers, but this does not really mean that the field of…
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By Edith Sangueza, J.D. ’18 Seen from the outside, the Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC) is a cheerful coral color, with an asymmetrical glass front.
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Via HLS News This March, several teams of HLS students used their Spring Break to work on a number of humanitarian projects, including documenting…