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The new curriculum includes more clinical opportunities than HLS has ever offered

There are now 16 clinics at HLS, enabling students to do fieldwork at home and abroad. Here are some examples, taking students inside inner cities and inner sanctums.

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Recent Highlights

  • Phil Malone

    Malone and Jacobs appointed clinical professors of law

    Phil Malone and Wendy Jacobs ’81 have been appointed clinical professors of law, Dean Elena Kagan ’86 announced today.

  • On the Se San: In the village of Ta Lao, Matt Bugher ’09 learns how to husk rice.

    Lawyers for the Damned

    For students and faculty in an HLS clinic, human rights and environmental law flow together.

  • Gun Case

    Clinical students assist in Supreme Court gun case

    When the U.S. Supreme Court took up a landmark case on the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban in March, a trio of Harvard Law students could claim modest credit for helping shape the argument. The students assisted lawyers arguing for preserving the ban in the gun-control case—D.C. v. Heller—as part of their work in a new clinical course this year, Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation.

  • Churchill and Konanova outside the courthouse

    Third-year student argues case before First Circuit

    On May 7, Lena Konanova '08 capped off her law school experience by representing a client bringing a case of employment discrimination before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.

  • IHRC

    HLS International Human Rights Clinic co-releases report assessing prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes

    The International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at Harvard Law School and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) have joined together to release "Prosecuting Apartheid-Era Crimes? A South African Dialogue on Justice," a report examining recently intensified questions about prosecuting crimes committed during apartheid.

  • Professor Deborah Anker

    Anker receives prestigious immigration law teaching award

    Deborah Anker, director of the HLS Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and a clinical professor of law, received the Elmer Fried Award for Excellence in Teaching on June 28 at the annual meeting of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) in Vancouver.

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