Tag Archives: Clinics

Clinical Blog Roundup

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A recap of posts from HLS clinics and student practice organizations over the past week.

Recap of International Law Journal Panel: Environmental, Human Rights, and Development Issues in International Investment Arbitration
Posted by Cara Solomon at IHRC

Finding Momentum: Human Rights and the Environment
Posted by Tyler Giannini at IHRC

America’s Domestic Black Sites: The Tragic History of Solitary Confinement
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP

Fighting for the Rights of Immigrant Detainees
Posted by HIRC

Today: Clinical 101 and Clinical Fair

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Clinical 101 and Clinical Fair

Wednesday March 27:

5:30-6:00 PM – Clinical 101
WCC 2012
Learn about clinical registration and how best to navigate the clinical fair, and get an introduction to the HLS clinical program.

6:00 – 8:00 PM – Clinical Fair
Milstein East A, B, & C
Talk with clinical faculty and students. Refreshments provided.

Clinical Blog Roundup

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A recap of posts from HLS clinics and student practice organizations over the past week.

Clinic and Human Rights Watch: Obama Should Urge Jordan to Stop Sending Asylum Seekers Back to Syria
Posted by Meera Shah at IHRC

Iraqi Civilians and U.S. Veterans Come Together to Demand the Right to Heal
Posted by Cara Solomon, Deborah Popowski and Stella Kim at IHRC

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons.
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP

US: A nation of inmates?
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP

Student Perspectives – Working with Clients
Posted by Mary Triick at HIRC

Fee Award in ACLU v. Alvarez
Posted by Cyberlaw Clinic

2013 Gary Bellow Public Service Award student finalists all involved in HLS clinics

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The Gary Bellow Public Service Award was created in 2001 to recognize excellence in public interest work at HLS and to honor Professor Bellow (’60). The awards are given annually by the student body of Harvard Law School to a student and alumnus/a for their commitment to social justice.

The three student finalists for the 2013 Gary Bellow Public Service Award are all HLS clinical students. Their involvement spans a range of HLS clinics and SPOs.

Crystal Redd: Prison Legal Assistance Project, Harvard Defenders, The Mississippi Delta Project, Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Clinic, Employment Law Clinic, and Criminal Justice Institute.

Lara Berlin: International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Mediation Program.

Stephanie Davidson: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

Read more about finalists’ work and vote for student and alumnae candidates by March 27th.

Gary Bellow was the founder and former faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Clinical Programs, and a pioneering public interest lawyer. His career was dedicated to providing legal services to the poor and to teaching law students practical skills. Commenting about his time from 1962-1965, when he was serving as deputy director of the Legal Aid Agency for the District of Columbia, and when he and his colleagues faced an enormous caseload with no job training, Professor Bellow told the Harvard Law Bulletin, “We discovered the best legal education America had to offer didn’t teach us how to get someone out of a cell block.”

Professor Bellow co-founded the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, the school’s major legal clinic, located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.

Opportunity: Apply to the Semester in Washington Program

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Apply today for the 2013 Semester in Washington Program

The 2013 Semester in Washington Program is now accepting applications! Students spend the entire Spring semester (except for Spring break) in Washington, D.C. working as legal interns in a variety of federal offices while taking an evening course on government lawyering. Placements are principally in federal government offices where lawyers conduct research and provide legal advice and assistance on policy, legislative or regulatory matters, rather than investigating and litigating cases.

Placements are coordinated by the clinic director, Jonathan Wroblewski, in consultation with students and the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs.

To apply, submit the following information by Aug 17, 2012 via an online form:

  1. Online Application
  2. Statements of Interest
  3. Current resume
  4. Writing sample of no more than 10 pages
  5. Academic transcript

For more information, review the information on the HLS website and on the Semester in Washington iSite.

Please don’t hesitate to contact the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs ( clinical at law.harvard.edu / 617.495.5202) or Jonathan Wroblewski ( jwroblewski at law.harvard.edu) if you have any questions.

Good luck!

Opportunity: Apply to Shareholder Rights Project!

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Are you a rising 2L, 3L, or LLM who is interested in learning about corporate governance, the relationship between internal and external stakeholders, and the role of shareholders? The HLS Shareholder Rights Project (SRP) is a clinical program through which faculty and students assist public pension funds and charitable organizations to improve corporate governance at publicly traded companies in which they are shareowners. With supervising attorneys, students conduct research, draft memos and reports, and participate in meetings with company and pension fund representatives.

The Shareholder Rights Project seeks participants for its 2012-2013 clinical program, which includes a fall-spring clinic and a spring seminar. To apply, submit a statement of interest (maximum 200 words), resume, and academic transcript (unofficial or official). You may also opt to include a writing sample of no more than 15 pages (one sample only). Applications should be addressed to the instructors, Lucian Bebchuk and Scott Hirst, but submitted to Emily Lewis ( emlewis at law.harvard.edu). Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Interested students are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as only a few spots remain.

Note: Please be sure to review the course description and clinic description before applying.

Clinical Voices: Reflecting on a Semester in Washington

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Final Dinner with the Semester in Washington Crew

Today’s “Clinical Voices” comes from Jonathan Wroblewski, who runs the Semester in Washington program at Harvard Law School. Here is his note to his students at the end of the semester:

The 2012 edition of the Harvard Law School Semester in Washington has ended, and it has been a wonderful semester in so many ways!

We’ve explored what policy making is and the building blocks that make up rigorous and thoughtful policy making. We’ve met fascinating people, including Senator Tom Udall, National Security Staff Deputy Counsel Michael Bahar, Cabinet Secretary Chris Lu, White House Human Rights Director Samantha Power, policy entrepreneur Jeanne Smoot, Sentencing Commission General Counsel Ken Cohen, Professor Doug Berman, and many more. We visited the Facebook policy shop and wrestled with issues of privacy and commerce. We’ve worked on some critical writing skills and heard some pretty good “Elevator Pitches,” including ones to revamp foreign aid, reform defense spending, and make a change at the top of the FHFA. We visited the Supreme Court and watched as the Solicitor General defended the Stolen Valor Act. We’ve set goals for ourselves; met some (maybe most); and missed a few, too. We’ve worked hard at our placements and shared and learned from each other’s experiences. We’ve thought about the ethical responsibilities of the government lawyer and picked apart how government bureaucracies work. We ventured outside of the Washington of tourists and monuments and served some of the people who call Washington home. We shared a few meals together and gotten to know one another a lot better. For each of us there were expectations met, expectations missed, and some surprises.

Most gratifying is that we were able to create a small community of learning away from Cambridge and in this strange city of Washington, D.C. I have enjoyed getting to know all of you and sharing some of your experiences over the past three months. Please don’t hesitate to call on me if there is ever anything I can do for you. I will be in Cambridge in the fall to recruit for our Semester in Washington Class of 2013. I hope to see some of you there. And if you are ever near the Main Justice Building, please drop me a line and let’s find time to catch up.

Enjoy the summer!