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2007-2008 Clinical Curriculum

  • In clinical sections, the class and the clinical are bundled together as co-requisites. Enrollment in a clinical section will add the student into both the class and the clinical. Dropping any clinical section will drop the student from both the class and the clinical (and workshop, if applicable).
  • To understand the acronyms used on this page, please see our Abbreviation Key
  • The Clinical Curriculum is subject to change and listed placement options are not exhaustive. Students are welcome to contact the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs for more options (617-495-5202, Austin 102, clinical@law.harvard.edu).
  • To view the 2006-2007 Clinical Curriculum, please click here.

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Advanced Clinical Practice Seminar
(D. Grossman)
- 3L HLAB members only
- Not in clinical course registration
- Required clinical credits
- Clinical grading is Pass/Fail
Fall & Spring:
TH 5pm-7pm
Block K
Fall: 1 and
Spring: 1
n/a Fall: 3 and
Spring: 3
32355C-1/FS Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (members only)
Bankruptcy B
(E. Warren)
Spring:
M,T,W 10:20-11:40am
Block C
Spring: 4 Required
32350A
2 class credits
Spring: 2, 3 or 4 31400C-1/S Legal Services Center (Predatory Lending/Consumer Protection Clinic)
Capital Punishment in America
(C. Steiker)
- Clinical grading is Pass/Fail
- LLM students may enroll
Spring:
M, T 3:15pm-4:45pm
Block G
Spring: 3 n/a Winter: 2 and
Spring: 2, 3, or 4
31980C-1/WS Center for Death Penalty Litigation; Equal Justice Institute; Philadelphia Federal Defender (Capital Habeus Unit); Southern Center for Human Rights; Texas Defender Service; and other placements
Child Advocacy Clinic
(J. Budnitz)
- Required clinical credits
- LLM students permitted at the permission of the instructor
- Early add/drop deadlines:
1) Winter/Spring clinical by 11/06/07
2) Sring clinical by 12/05/07
Spring:
W 5pm-7pm
Block L
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 3, or 4
Winter: (optional) 2
Winter & Spring: 32080C-1/WS
Children & Family Law Program; Civil Rights Project; Suffolk County D.A.'s Office; Legal Services Center (Special Education Clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative)
Spring only:
32080C-1/S
Civil Litigation Workshop
(P. Collier)
- Pre-requisites: Evidence
- Required clinical credits
- Prior clinical experience and completion of TAW strongly suggested
Spring:
T 7pm-9pm
Block M
Spring: 2 n/a Fall or Spring:
2, 3, or 4
Fall: 32210C-1/F Legal Services Center (Various units, geared toweards clinics with litigation practice) or Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (3L members only)
Spring: 32210C-1/S
Community Action for Social and Economic Rights
(L. White)
Fall : M, T 1pm-2:30pm
Block E

Spring: M 1pm-3pm
Fall: 3 and
Spring: 2
n/a Fall or Spring:
2, 3, or 4
or Winter: 2
Fall: 32370C-1/F Placements arranged by Professor Lucie White
Winter: 32370C-1/W
Spring: 32370C-1/S
Copyright
(P. Samuelson)
- LLMs admitted with clinic permission
Fall:
M,T 1pm-2:30pm
Block E
Fall: 3 n/a Fall: 2, 3, or 4 Fall: 33800C-1/F Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center)
Criminal Justice Advocacy: Clinical Seminar
(D. Poole)
- LLM students need permission of instructor to enroll
- 2L students cannot represent in court
Spring:
Th 5pm-7pm
Block K
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2 92010C-1/S Criminal Justice Institute; New England Innocence Project
Cyberlaw: Internet Points of Control
(J. Zittrain)
- LLMs admitted with clinic permission
Winter:
M, T, W, Th, F
2pm-5pm
Winter: 3 n/a Fall or Spring:
2, 3, or 4
Fall:
39150C-1/F
Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center)
Spring:
39150C-1/S
CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion
(C. Nesson)
- LLMs admitted with clinic permission
Fall:
M,T 5pm-6:30pm
Block L
Fall: 3 n/a Fall or Spring:
2, 3, or 4
or 2 Winter
Fall: 37271C-1/F Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center)
Winter: 37271C-1/W
Spring: 37271C-1/S
Dispute Systems Design: Seminar
(R. Bordone)
- Req. pre-requisite: Negotiation Workshop
Fall:
W 5pm-7pm
Block J
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2 92792C-1/F Harvard Negotiation Clinical Program
Educational Policy-Making and the Courts
(M. Rebell)
Winter:
M,T,W,Th,F
9am-12pm
Winter: 3

Spec. Ed.
1 class credit

Fall or Spring:
2, 3, or 4
Fall: 35245C-1/F Legal Services Center (Special Education / Trauma and Policy Learning Initiative)
Spring: 35245C-1/S
Employment Civil Rights Clinical Workshop
(S. Churchill)
- Required clinical credits
- LLM students may enroll
Spring:
W 7pm-9pm
Block M
Spring: 2 n/a Winter: 2 and
Spring: 1 or 2
Winter & Spring
35312C-1/WS
Legal Services Center (Employment Law Clinic); externships with private firms, advocacy groups, or government agencies (Mass Commission Against Discrimination; Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Spring only:
2, 3, or 4
Spring only
35312C-1/S
Employment Clinical Workshop
(S. Churchill)
- Required clinical credits
Fall:
W 5pm-7pm
Block L
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3, or 4 35315C-1/F Legal Services Center (Employment Law Clinic); externships with private firms, advocacy groups, or government agencies (Mass Commission Against Discrimination; Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Environmental Law
(J. Freeman)
Spring:
M,T 1pm-3pm
Block E
Spring: 4 n/a Spring: 2, 3 or 4 35500C-1/S HLS Environmental Law and Policy Clinic,
Conservation Law Foundation, and other environmental organizations
Environmental Law Practice: Skills, Methods, and Controversies
(W. Jacobs)
- Pre- or co-requisite: Administrative or Environmental Law
Spring:
W 5pm-7pm
Block L
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3 or 4 93025C-1/S Harvard Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and other environmental organizations
Families and Children: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop A
(R. Greenwald)
- Required clinical credits
Fall:
W 5pm-7pm
Block J
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3 or 4 36515C-1/F Legal Services Center (Family and Children's Unit: Family, Family Mediation/Pro Se, Domestic Violence, or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Clinics)
Families and Children: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop B
(R. Greenwald)
- Required clinical credits
Spring:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3 or 4 36515C-1/S Legal Services Center (Family and Children's Unit: Family, Family Mediation/Pro Se, Domestic Violence, or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Clinics)
Federal Public Land and Resources
(J. Leshy)
Fall:
M, T 1pm-2:30pm
Block E
Fall: 3 n/a Fall: 2, 3 or 4 36975C-1/F HLS Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice: Seminar
(D. Rosenfeld)
Spring:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Spring: 2 Required
37634A
1 class credit
Fall or Spring:
2, 3 or 4
Fall: 94020C-1/F Jane Doe, Inc.; Boston Area Rape Crisis Center; Security on Campus; Mass. Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence; Trafficking Victims Outreach & Services Network in Boston
Spring: 94020C-1/S
Government Lawyer A
(A. Whiting)
Fall:
Th 10am-12pm
Block D
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3, or 4 38000C-1/F U.S. Attorney's Office;
Office of the Attorney General
Government Lawyer B
(A. Whiting)
- By Permission only
- Not in clinical course registration
- Required clinical credits
Spring:
Th 10am-12pm
Block D
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 3 or 4
Winter:(optional) 2
Winter & Spring:
38000C-1/WS
Local and federal government offices; U.S. Attorney's Office; Office of the Attorney General
Spring only:
38000C-1/S
Health, Disability and Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop A
(R. Greenwald)
- Required clinical credits
Fall:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3, or 4 38093C-1/F Legal Services Center (HELLP Unit: Administrative/Disability, Health, and Estate Planning Law Clinics)
Health, Disability and Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop B
(R. Greenwald)
- Required clinical credits
Spring:
Th 5pm-7pm
Block K
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3, or 4 38093C-1/S Legal Services Center (HELLP Unit: Administrative/Disability, Health, and Estate Planning Law Clinics)
Housing Law and Policy
(D. Grossman)
Spring
M 5pm-7pm
Block H
Spring: 2 Required
32350A
1 or 2 class credits
Fall or Spring:
2, 3 or 4
Fall:
38100C-1/F
Legal Services Center (Housing or Predatory Lending Units);
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (3L members only); and other externships
Spring:
38100C-1/S
Human Rights Advocacy Seminar
(J. Cavallaro, B. Nowrojee)
-LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Fall:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3, or 4 94740C-1/F Human Rights Program
Human Rights and the Environment: Advocacy Seminar A
(T. Giannini)
- LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Fall:
M 5pm-7pm
Block H
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3, or 4 94611C-1/F Human Rights Program
Human Rights and the Environment: Advocacy Seminar B
(T. Giannini, B. Docherty)
-LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Spring:
M 5pm-7pm
Block H
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3, or 4 94611C-1/S Human Rights Program
Independent Clinical
- Enrollment by application only
- Not in Clinical course registration
- Grading is Pass/Fail
- Fall, Winter, or Spring n/a Fall or Spring:
2, 3 or 4;
or Winter: 2
- Various
International Human Rights Litigation Seminar
(J. Cavallaro, S. Parmar)
- LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Spring:
W 5pm-7pm
Block J
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3 or 4 94743C-1/S Human Rights Program
Introduction to Advocacy (ITA): Civil -Skills and Ethics in Clinical Practice
(D. Grossman)
- 2L HLAB members only
- Not in clinical course registration
- Required clinical credits
- Fulfills Professional Responsibility requirement
- Clinical grading is Pass/Fail
Fall & Spring:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Fall: 2 and
Spring: 1
n/a Fall: 2 and
Spring: 3
39500C-1/S Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (members only)
Introduction to Advocacy (ITA): Criminal Justice
(C. Ogletree)
- Students are automatically enrolled for Trial Advocacy Workshop (TAW)
- 3L students only
- Required clinical credits
- Fulfills professional responsibility requirement
- Pre- or co-requisite: Evidence
ITA-
Fall & Winter: (Starts 10/3)
W 5pm-7pm
Block J
ITA:
Fall: 3 and
Winter: 1
Trial Advocacy Workshop (automatically enrolled) ITA:
Fall: 3 and
Winter: 1
39700C-1/FW Criminal Justice Institute
TAW-
Sept. 10-28
Mon-Fri. 2pm-9pm
TAW-
Fall: 3
n/a (TAW is class credits only)
Introduction to Advocacy (ITA): Criminal - Prosecution Perspectives
(J. Corrigan)
- Students are automatically enrolled for Trial Advocacy Workshop (TAW)
- 3L students only
- Required clinical credits
- Fulfills professional responsibility requirement
- Pre-requisite: Evidence
ITA-
Fall & Winter: (Starts 10/4)
Th 5pm-7pm
Block K
ITA:
Fall: 2 and
Winter: 1
Trial Advocacy Workshop (automatically enrolled) ITA:
Fall: 3 and
Winter: 1
41350C-1/S District Attorney's Offices of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, or Suffolk Counties
TAW-
Sept. 10-28
Mon-Fri. 2pm-9pm
TAW-
Fall: 3
n/a (TAW is class credits only)
Judicial Process in Community Courts
(J. Cratsley)
- LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Spring:
W 7pm-9pm
Block M
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3, or 4 90920-1/S Individual Justices of the District Court, Boston Municipal Court, Juvenile Court, and Housing Court Departments of the Massachusetts Trial Court
Law and the Political Process
(L. Guinier)
Spring:
M,T 1pm - 2:30pm
Block E
Spring: 3 n/a Spring: 3 or 4 41350C-1/S ACLU; Common Cause; GLAD; and Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights; National Voting Rights Institute; and possible local legislative offices
Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services
(J. Charn)
- Fulfills Professional Responsibility Requirement
Fall:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Fall: 2 Required
32350A
1 or 2 class credits
Fall or Spring:
2, 3, or 4
Fall: 43300C-1/F Legal Services Center (Housing clinic or Special Education clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative; other clinics within Family & Children's HELLP or Predatory Lending Units)
Spring: 43300C-1/S
Legal Profession: The Lawyering Process A
(J. Charn)
- Required clinical credits
- Fulfills Professional Responsibility Requirement
Fall:
M 5pm-7pm
Block L
Fall: 2 Required
32350A
1 or 2 class credits
Fall: 2, 3, or 4 42300C-1/F Legal Services Center (Housing clinic or Special Education clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative; other clinics within Family & Children's HELLP or Predatory Lending Units)
Legal Profession: The Lawyering Process B
(J. Charn)
- Required clinical credits
- Fulfills Professional Responsibility Requirement
Spring:
M 5pm-7pm
Block L
Spring: 2 Required
32350A
1 or 2 class credits
Spring: 2, 3, or 4 42300C-1/S Legal Services Center (Housing clinic or Special Education clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative; other clinics within Family & Children's HELLP or Predatory Lending Units)
Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project
(L. White)
- By Permission (applications due 4/11/07)
- Not in clinical course registration
Fall & Winter:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Fall: 1 and
Winter: 3
n/a Fall: 1 or 2 43610C-1/F Ghana Legal Resources Centre
Mediation
(D. Hoffman)
Spring:
Th 4pm-7pm
Block L
Spring: 3 TBD Spring: 2, 3, or 4 44000C-1/S Harvard Mediation Program
Negotiation Clinical: Seminar
(R. Bordone)
- Required clinical credits
- Pre-requisite: Negotiation Workshop
Spring:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Spring: 1 n/a Spring: 2 or 3 44105C-1/S Harvard Negotiation Clinical Program
Poverty Law
(L. White)
Spring:
Th,F 10am-11:30am
Block D
Spring: 3 n/a Fall or Spring:
2, 3 or 4
or Winter: 2
Fall:
44575C-1/F
Legal Services Center (Various Units), Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (3L members only) or other externship organizations.
Winter:
44575C-1/W
Spring:
44575C-1/S
Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace: Seminar
(J. Palfrey, Malone)
- LLMs admitted with clinic permission
Fall:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Fall: 2 n/a Fall or Spring:
2, 3 or 4
or Winter: 2
Fall:
98141C-1/F
Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center)
Winter:
98141C-1/W
Spring:
98141C-1/S
Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Workshop A
(R. Bertling)
- Required clinical credits
Fall:
Th 5pm-7pm
Block L
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3, or 4 44795C-1/F Legal Services Center (Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection clinic)
Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Workshop B
(R. Bertling)
- Required clinical credits
Spring:
Th 5pm-7pm
Block L
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3, or 4 44795C-1/S Legal Services Center (Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection clinic)
Prison Law and Policy
(S. Dolovich)
- LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Fall:
M,T 1pm-3pm
Block E
Fall: 4 n/a Spring: 2, 3 or 4 44305C-1/S Prison Legal Assistance Project; Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services
Race and Justice Seminar: Criminal Justice
(C. Ogletree)
Spring:
W 5pm-7pm
Block J
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3 or 4 98221C-1/S Criminal Justice Institute; New England Innocence Project; Charles Hamilton Houston Institute; and other wrongful convictions and death penalty organizations
Refugee and Asylum Law and Advocacy Seminar A (Anker)
- Required clinical credits
- LLMs admitted with clinic permission
Fall:
Th 5pm-7pm
Block K
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3 or 4 98460C-1/F Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Refugee and Asylum Law and Advocacy Seminar B (Anker)
- Required clinical credits
- LLMs admitted with clinic permission
Spring:
Th 5pm-7pm
Block K
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3 or 4 98460C-1/S Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Regulation of the Household (Halley) Spring:
M,T,W
10:20am-11:40am
Block C
Spring: 4 36515A-1/S
2 class credits
Spring: 2, 3 or 4 45575C-1/S Legal Services Center (Family Law Unit);
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (3L members only)
Sports and the Law: Representing the Professional Athlete (Carfagna)
- By application only (due 9/17/07)
- Priority given to prior Sports Law students
- Pro bono credit only for non-profit work
Spring:
Th 1:15pm-4:30pm
Block F
Spring: 3 None Spring: 2 or 3 41140C-1/S

Various, including legal departments of major leagues, law firms and lawyers doing sports law represention of individual players or team/leagues

Supreme Court and Appellate Practice (Dellinger, Harris, Hacker)
- By permission (applications due 4/4/07)
- Not in clinical course registration
- Required clinical credits
- Class meets every other week
- Full year course and clinical
Fall and Spring:
T 3pm-5pm
Fall: 1 and
Spring: 1
n/a Fall: 2 and
Spring: 2
46645C-1/FS Cases coordinated with instructors

Supreme Court Litigation (Tribe, Goldstein, Russell)
- By permission (applications due 10/12/07)
- Not in clinical course registration
- Clinical credits are required

Winter:
M, T, W, Th, F
2pm-5pm
Winter: 1 n/a Winter: 2 46650C-1/W Cases coordinated by instructors
Title IX: Seminar
(D. Rosenfeld)
- LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Fall:
T 5pm-7pm
Block I
Fall: 2 Required
1 class credit
Th 3-4:15pm
Fall: 2, 3 or 4 99420C-1/F Security on Campus, Inc., Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women and various other legal advocacy groups
Transactional Practice Clinical Workshop: Business, Non Profit, Real Estate and Entertainment A
(B. Price)
- Required clinical credits
- LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Fall:
M 5pm-7pm
Block H
Fall: 2 n/a Fall: 2, 3 or 4 47532C-1/F Legal Services Center (CEP Unit)
Transactional Practice Clinical Workshop: Business, Non Profit, Real Estate and Entertainment B
(B. Price)
- Required clinical credits
- LLMs admitted with instructor permission
Spring:
M 5pm-7pm
Block H
Spring: 2 n/a Spring: 2, 3 or 4 47532C-1/S Legal Services Center (CEP Unit)
Trial Advocacy Workshop A (TAW)(Ogletree)
- Students in ITA Criminal Justice and Prosecution Perspectives are automatically enrolled and should not bid separately on TAW
- LLMs admitted with instructor permission
- Grading is Pass/Fail
Fall:
Sept. 10-28
Mon-Fri 2pm-9pm
Fall: 3 n/a None 47500A-1/F None
Trusts and Estates (B. Mann)
- LLMs admitted with instructor and clinic permission
Spring:
MTW 3:15pm-4:35pm
Block G
Spring: 4 Required
32350A-3/S
2 class credits
Spring: 2, 3 or 4 48020C-1/S Legal Services Center (Estate Planning clinic within HELLP Unit)
War Crimes Prosecution Workshop
(A. Whiting)
- Required clinical credits
- Class meets every other week
- LLMs may enroll
- Students are suggested to also take "International Criminal Justice: War Crimes Tribunals"; taught by Gary Bass in Spring 07.
Spring:
F 10am-12pm
Block D
Spring: 1 None Winter: 2 and
Spring: 2
48333C-1/WS War crime tribunals or organizations working on war crime prosecution issues
Web Difference? Digital Media, Entertainment, and the Law
(J Palfrey, D. Weinberger)
- LLMs may enroll with clinic permission
Spring:
M,T 1pm-2:30pm
Block E
Spring: 3 None Fall or Spring:
2, 3 or 4
or 2 Winter
Fall: 48372C-1/F Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center)
Winter: 48372C-1/W
Spring: 48372C-1/S

Abbreviation Key
CEP = Community Enterprise Project at the Legal Services Center
CJI = Criminal Justice Institute
HELLP = Health, Employment, Living Legacy and Planning clinic at the Legal Services Center
HIRC = Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (at Greater Boston Legal Services)
HLAB = Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
HRP = Human Rights Program
LSC = Legal Services Center


Workshops - For students whose clinical placement requires an additional workshop:
Workshop Workshop Time Credits Section Associated Clinicals
Gender Violence, Law, and Social Justice Clinical Workshop (Rosenfeld) Fall: W 3:30-4:45 PM
Block G
1 37634A-1/F Gender Violence, Law, and Social Justice Clinical (Fall)
Gender Violence, Law, and Social Justice Clinical Workshop (Rosenfeld) Spring: W 3:30-4:45 PM
Block G
1 37634A-1/S Gender Violence, Law, and Social Justice Clinical (Spring)
Housing Law Litigation Clinical Workshop A (Mares/McDonagh) Fall: TH 5:00-7:00 PM
Block K
1 32350A-1/F LSC - Housing Clinic (Fall)
Housing Law Litigation Clinical Workshop B (Mares/McDonagh) Spring: TH 7:15-9:15 PM
Block M
1 32350A-1/S LSC - Housing Clinic (Spring)
Special Education / Trauma and Policy Learning Initiative Workshop A (Cole/Gregory) Fall: W 5:00-7:00 PM
Block L
1 32350A-5/F LSC - Special Education Clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (Fall)
Special Education / Trauma and Policy Learning Initiative Workshop B (Cole/Gregory) Spring: W 5:00-7:00 PM
Block L
1 32350A-5/S LSC - Special Education Clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (Spring)
Title IX Clinical Workshop (Rosenfeld) Fall: TH 3:00-4:15 PM 1 47275A-1/F Title IX Clinical (Fall)

 

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