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The Art Law Clinic is a pilot clinical program taught in connection with Harvard Law School Professor Terry Martin’s seminar on Art Law. The Art Law Clinic, launched in September 2005, represents museums and non-profit arts organizations. The Clinic provides legal assistance to these organizations on a broad range of issues, including charitable giving, collection management, corporate governance, cultural property, intellectual property, and tax-exemption issues. The Clinic also assists clients with non-profit formation, applications for tax-exempt status, by-law amendments, promised gift agreements, conflict of interest policies, codes of ethics, licensing agreements, collection management policies and research projects. It also produces a newsletter that addresses issues of interest to the museum and non-profit arts community.
Students have numerous opportunities throughout the semester to draft documents; research and apply legal doctrine; interview, represent and counsel clients; engage in strategic decision-making, issue analysis and problem solving.
The Art Law Clinic is part of the Center’s Community Enterprise Project Practice Group. For more information on this Clinic, contact Polly Clark, Senior Fellow: pclark@law.harvard.edu; (617)390-2530
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