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Amy Volz, J.D. ’18

Mila Owen, J.D. ’18 worked at Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights in Harare, Zimbabwe

HLS students on their Spring Break Pro Bono Trip to Mexico

HLS Students on their Spring Break Pro Bono Trip to San Antonio, TX

Group photo of HLS students participating in Project No One Leaves

“Conflict Resolution” by Leah Kolidas (Acrylic paint and ink on paper)

“Empathy” by Anirveda Sharma (Acrylic)

Tabitha Cohen ’18

Susana Cervantes, J.D. ’17, student leader of the Mississippi Delta Project

Group photo of the HLS Advocates for Human Rights.
Advocates is a place for students to work on semester and year-long projects on various human rights topics. Their projects are designed and led by the students themselves under the supervision of an attorney from a partner organization who works in the field. These student-initiated projects give students a chance to work on the human rights issues they are most passionate about.

Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic at Judge Cratsley’s house for dinner after the prison tour

Kim Quarantello, a member of HIRC’s Immigration Response Initiative, speaking at a Cambridge City Council meeting.

Bonnie on a fact-finding mission in Iraq.

Peter Carfagna (left) and Gia Velasquez J.D. ’18 (right)

Cover photo of the report “Underserved: How the VA wrongfully excludes veterans with Bad Paper” produced by the Veterans Legal Clinic

Cover Photo of the report ” Securing Status: Syrian refugees and the documentation of legal status, identity, and family relationships in Jordan” produced by the International Human Rights Clinic and Norwegian Refugee Council Jordan

LSC volunteers (L-R): Toby Merrill, Lisa Bernt, Audrey Patten, Victoria Roytenberg, Dana Montalto, Betsy Gwin, Ginger Jackson-Gleich, Dan Nagin, Caleb Smith, Julia Taylor, Michael Adame.
On Friday, Sept. 30th, attorneys, staff, students and volunteers from LSC attended the 2016 Greater Boston Stand Down. Held annually, Stand Down is a one-day event during which homeless and at-risk veterans can connect with a wide range of local service providers.

Toby Merrill, right, and Eileen Connor, pose for a portrait at Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School in Jamaica Plan, MA, January 5, 2017. They are lawyers representing the students at the Harvard Law School Project on Predatory Student Lending. Photo by Shiho Fukada for The New York Times

Credit: Tom Fitzsimmons
Lecturer on Law Rachel Viscomi ’01 (left) moderated the day’s first panel, “Dispute Systems Design: Expanding Horizons.” Panelists included Seanan Fong, HDS ’16, consultant and founder of Cylinder Project and a solo ombudsman to a major tech company; Stacie Nicole Smith, senior mediator and director of Workable Peace at the Consensus Building Institute; Stephan Sonnenberg ’06, faculty Member and clinic expert at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law in Bhutan; and (not pictured) Joseph B. (Josh) Stulberg, Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

(Lto R) Jennifer (J.J.) Rosenbaum ’02, women from Nima, and Sabrineh Ardalan ’02, at the Legal Resources Centre in Nima, Accra, Ghana, in 2001.

Credit: Heratch Photography
“While flying air missions in Afghanistan, Anne Stark said her greatest concern was protecting soldiers on the ground. As a student at Harvard Law School, she sees yet another way to protect those who have served their country.”
Taken from the Harvard Law Today Article entitled “Using law to protect veterans”

Credit: Tony Luong
Bill Palin imagines and builds technology to help HLS clinics expand access to justice.