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Advocates for Human Rights
Harvard Defenders
Harvard Mediation
Prison Legal Assistance Project
Tenant Advocacy Project
Wrongful Convictions
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Advocates for Human Rights
(website)
- Sponsors and develops specific projects for students to engage in human rights advocacy.
- Works with civil society organizations to represent the interests of victims of human rights violations.
- Encourages networking and social interaction among students interested in human rights.
Harvard Defenders (website)
- Provides quality
legal representation to people with low income in criminal show-cause
hearings and welfare fraud investigations.
- Has provided legal
services to people accused of criminal offenses since 1949.
- Comprised of approximately
75 HLS students (1L, 2L, and 3L) who volunteer to provide pro-bono representation to low-income defendants in criminal show-cause hearings and assist callers with other legal issues through our extensive referral network.
- Committed to ensuring
that people with low income have representation in criminal legal proceedings
and are aware of their legal rights and responsibilities.
- Committed to maintaining
a high level of professional conduct and work extensively with clients
in preparing for cases.
- A limited number
of student members can earn clinical credit in connection with ITA
Civil: The Lawyering Process A and B.
Harvard Mediation (website)
- Enhances the education
of Harvard Law School (HLS) students and other members of the Mediation
Program by providing multiple and diverse opportunities to learn, practice
and teach mediation.
- Serves the community
by developing, promoting and providing effective mediation services.
- Provides effective
mediation services to all parties, regardless of their ability to pay.
- Educates local
courts and communities regarding mediation and effective conflict resolution
skills.
- Provides opportunities
for HLS students to learn and practice mediation with members of the
community for the purpose of sharing diverse perspectives and experience.
- A limited number
of student members can earn clinical credit in connection with Legal
Profession: Delivery of Legal Services and Mediation
Prison
Legal Assistance Project (website)
- A student-run clinical
program in which students represent inmates in Massachusetts state prisons.
- Student attorneys
argue at disciplinary hearings on behalf of prisoners charged with violating
prison regulations.
- Provides inmates
with legal research assistance in matters ranging from civil rights
violations to confiscated property.
- Student attorneys
testify at prison regulation notice-and-comment sessions, and address
inmate support groups.
- Occasionally, PLAP
students may litigate cases in state and federal court.
Tenant Advocacy Project (website)
- A student practice
organization dedicated to representing residents of and applicants to
publicly-subsidized housing before local housing authorities.
- Provides badly-needed
representation to low- and moderate-income tenants who are facing eviction
or subsidy termination, or who have been denied admission to public
housing or a subsidy program.
- Also provides advice
on general landlord-tenant questions.
- Our members develop
a wide range of important advocacy skills, including client interviewing,
witness examination, oral argument, and negotiations.
- One of the few
clinical organizations that offers 1L members the invaluable opportunity
to do hands-on lawyering by handling every aspect of their cases from
the initial client interview to the trial-like hearing.
- A limited number
of student members can earn clinical credit in connection with Housing
Law and Policy and Legal Profession: The Responsibilities of
Public Lawyers.
Wrongful Convictions (website)
- A student practice
organization that seeks to raise awareness of the various problems with the American criminal justice system that results in the wrongful convictions of numerous individuals every year.
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