Jeanne Charn | Professor Philip B. Heymann Liz A. Solar | Richard Zorza

Jeanne Charn, Project Director
   Jeanne Charn is Director of the Bellow Sacks Access to Civil Legal Services Project, Director of the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center and Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, teaching clinical courses on civil advocacy, delivery of legal services, professional responsibility and housing law and policy.
    During law school, Jeanne was a student practitioner at Community Legal Assistance Office (CLAO), one of the first O.E.O funded legal service projects. Upon graduation from law school in 1970, Jeanne was a staff attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute representing statewide and local public housing tenant groups and providing training and support for legal services in the state.
    In 1973, Jeanne was appointed Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School. She arranged for and monitored the educational quality of all course related student placements and worked with Professor Gary Bellow to develop Harvard's clinical program. In 1978, Gary and Jeanne conceived of a Harvard Law School supported "teaching law office" similar to the teaching hospital in medicine. The predecessor of the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center opened in 1979.
    Jeanne received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1967, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1970.

Professor Philip B. Heymann, Faculty Advisor to the Project
   Philip Heymann is the James Barr Ames Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Director of the Center For Criminal Justice, and Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. From his first job as clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Harlan to his post as Deputy U.S. Attorney General (1993-94) he has had extensive and varied government experience. He has been Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Justice Department, Acting Administrator of the State Department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Organizations and Executive Assistant to the Undersecretary of State. In addition, he was a former associate prosecutor and consultant to the Watergate Special Task Force.
    As Director of the Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard, Phil has in recent years managed a number of projects designed to improve the criminal justice systems of countries seeking to create or preserve democratic institutions, including Guatemala, Colombia, South Africa, and Russia. Phil was also independent counsel to the National Football League in the investigation of allegations of sexual harassment by the New England Patriots, and he chaired the panel of international experts proposing to the Goldstone Commission new procedures for conducting and handling mass demonstrations in South Africa.
    He has written extensively on the subjects of management in government, criminal justice, and combating corruption. Phil is a member of many board and organizations which include Common Cause, Drug Strategies, National Academy of Science Law and Justice, Fellows of Harvard's Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative, Transparency International, ABA Criminal Justice Section Task Force on Federalization of Criminal Law. Phil received his A.B. at Yale in 1954, and a J.D. at Harvard in 1960.