Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

The Criminal Justice Institute is the curriculum-based criminal law clinical program of Harvard Law School. The mission of the Criminal Justice Institute is to educate Harvard Law School students in becoming effective, ethical and zealous criminal defense lawyer-advocates through practice in representing indigent individuals involved in the Massachusetts court system as well as to research and present issues and debates about the criminal and juvenile justice systems in order to effect local and national reform.

While this web site is designed to give you pertinent information about the work of the Criminal Justice Institute, it is also designed as a resource for you – student, scholar, attorney, activist, advocate, life-long learner. Our hope is that the information will prove to be helpful to you in working on criminal justice related issues or in advocating for those indigent individuals who find themselves gaining a first-person experience within the criminal justice system. In service to you, may this site help you in research, education and practice to help someone else.

Please visit the site often and feel free to contact us.


	Marian Wright Edelman said that “we must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot forsee.”

Harvard Law School
Criminal Justice Institute
1515 Massachusetts Avenue, 301 Austin Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: 617-496-8143 Fax: 617-496-2277

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