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2010-2011 Clinical Curriculum
Listed below are courses that offer a clinical component. Courses not listed as 'required clinical' can also be taken as a standalone class. Please note the following:
- Add/drop for Spring 2011 clinicals has now ended. See add/drop deadlines.
- Enrolling adds you to both the class and clinical, dropping removes you from both.
- Professional Responsibility: See a list of courses, including clinical courses, that fulfill the Professional Responsibility requirement..
- By Application Courses: Courses listed as 'By application' are not in clinical registration online; see course description for application information.
- Past Clinical Curriculum Charts: 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013
| Clinical Course | Class Credits & Time | Sample Clinical Placements | Clinical Term & Credits | Clinical Course & Section Number | Registration Dates & Waitlist Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Clinical Practice (Caramello, Grossman) - Required clinical - Class & clinic grading is Credit/Fail | Fall: 1 & Spring: 1 Thursday 3:15pm-5:15pm Block X | Harvard Legal Aid Bureau | Fall: 3 & Spring: 3 | 32355C-1/FS | 3L HLAB members only Closed |
| Business and Human Rights Clinical Seminar: Law and Practice (Giannini, Jochnick) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/24) | Fall: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block H | International Human Rights Clinic | Fall: 2-4 | 94731C-1/F | Closed |
| Capital Punishment in America (Steiker) - Clinical grading is Credit/Fail - LLMs may participate in October clinical registration with permission of Clinical office | Spring: 3 Mon, Tue 10:30am-12:00pm Block C | Center for Death Penalty Litigation; Equal Justice Initiative; Southern Center for Human Rights; Texas Defender Service; others | Winter: 2 & Spring: 2-4 | 31980C-1/WS | Closed |
| Child Advocacy Clinic (Budnitz) - Required clinical - LLM students admitted with instructor permission (apply by 9/17) - Early add/drop deadlines (Winter-Spring clinical November 5; Spring only clinical December 3) | Spring: 2 Wednesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block J | Boston and Cambridge Juvenile Courts; Center for Law and Education; Children's Defense Fund; Child Protection Unit of the D.A.'s Office; Juvenile Law Center; Youth Advocacy Center ; others | Spring: 3-4 Winter: 2 (optional) | Winter & Spring: 32080C-1/WS | Closed |
| Spring only: 32080C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Child Exploitation, Pornography, and the Internet (Rosenfeld, Sacco) - LLMs admitted with Cyberlaw clinic permission (apply by 8/25) | Spring: 2 Thursday 9:50am-11:50am Block D | Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center) | Fall: 2-4, or Winter: 2, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 98063C-1/F | Closed |
| Winter: 98063C-1/W | Closed | ||||
| Spring: 98063C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Consumer Finance (Jackson, Tufano) - Additional 2 credit Predatory Lending Clinical Workshop required | Spring: 3 Mon, Tue 1:30pm-4:00pm + 2 credit workshop | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection clinic | Spring: 2 | 33720C-1/S | Closed |
| Critical Perspectives on the Law: Issues of Race, Gender, Class and Social Change (Guinier) - Admission by application (10/20/10) | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | Various | Winter: 2, or Spring: 2-4, or Winter & Spring | 92030C | Closed |
| Cybercrime (Malone) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission (apply by 8/25) | Spring: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block K | Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center) | Fall: 2-4, or Winter: 2, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 92485C-1/F | Closed |
| Winter: 92485C-1/W | Closed | ||||
| Spring: 92485C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Dispute Systems Design (Bordone) - Clinic pre-requisite: Negotiation Workshop | Fall: 2 Wednesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block J | Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program | Fall: 2-4 | 92792C-1/F | Closed |
| Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk Clinical Workshop A (Cole, Gregory) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block K | Education Law Clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative | Fall: 2-4 | 35244C-1/F | Closed |
| Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk Clinical Workshop B (Cole, Gregory) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block K | Education Law Clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative | Spring: 2-4 | 35244C-1/S | Closed |
| Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic Workshop A (Goho, Jacobs) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/20) | Fall: 2 Wednesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block J | Environmental Law and Policy Clinic or other environmental organizations | Fall 2-4 | 35510C-1/F | Closed |
| Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic Workshop B (Goho, Jacobs) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/20) - Class meets every other week | Spring: 1 Wednesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block J | Environmental Law and Policy Clinic or other environmental organizations | Spring 2-4 | 35510C-1/S | Closed |
| Employment Law Workshop: Advocacy Skills (Churchill) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Fall: 2 Wednesday 7pm - 9pm Block M | Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, private firms | Fall 2-4 | 35315C-1/F | Closed |
| Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change (Churchill) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Spring: 2 Wednesday 7:00pm-9:00pm Block M | Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, private firms | Winter: 2 and/or Spring: 2-4 | Winter & Spring 35312C-1/WS | Closed |
| Spring: 35312C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts A (Greenwald) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block H | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Domestic Violence, Family Law, or GLBT clinics | Fall: 2-4 | 36515C-1/F | Closed |
| Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts B (Greenwald) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block H | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Domestic Violence, Family Law, or GLBT clinics | Spring: 2-4 | 36515C-1/S | Closed |
| Federal Debt Collection Workshop (Jackson) - Required clinical - Early add/drop deadline 8/29/10 - Training August 30-31 | Fall: 1 & Spring: 1 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block K | U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service | Fall:1 & Spring: 1 | 93912C-1/FS | Closed |
| Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice: Seminar (Rosenfeld) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission (apply by 8/25) - Additional 1 credit workshop required during clinical term (Fall or Spring) | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | 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 | Fall: 2-4, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 94020C-1/F | Closed |
| Spring: 94020C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington (Wroblewski) - Required clinical - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement - Additional 1 credit written work - By application (8/20/10) | Spring: 3 TBD | Federal executive, legislative, and agency offices in Washington, DC | Spring: 6 Winter: 2 (optional) | Winter & Spring: 38001C-1/WS | Closed |
| Spring: 38001C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Government Lawyer: The Prosecutor (Whiting) - Early add/drop deadlines (Fall - June 18; Spring - September 3) - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement | Fall: 3 Mon, Tue 1:30pm-3:00pm Block E | U.S. Attorney's Office (Boston) | Fall: 2-4, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 38000C-1/F | Closed |
| Spring: 38000C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Green New York (Frug) - Required clinical - By permission (4/30/10) | Fall: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block H | New York City Law Department | Spring: 2 | 94035C-1/S | Closed |
| Health, Disability and Estate Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop A (Greenwald) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Administrative/Disability, Health Law, Estate Planning clinics | Fall: 2-4 | 38093C-1/F | Closed |
| Health, Disability and Estate Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop B (Greenwald) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Administrative/Disability, Health Law, Estate Planning clinics | Spring: 2-4 | 38093C-1/S | Closed |
| Human Rights Advocacy (Cavallaro) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/24) | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | International Human Rights Clinic | Fall: 2-4 | 94740C-1/F | Closed |
| Humanitarian Protection in Situations of Armed Conflict (Docherty) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/24) | Spring: 2 Tuesday 4:00pm-6:00pm Block G/H | International Human Rights Clinic | Spring: 2-4 | 94742C-1/S | Closed |
| Immigration and Refugee Advocacy: Seminar A (Anker) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/13) | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic | Fall: 2-4 | 98460C-1/F | Closed |
| Immigration and Refugee Advocacy: Seminar B (Ardalan) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/13) | Spring: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block K | Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic | Spring: 2-4 | 98460C-1/S | Closed |
| Independent Clinical - Grading is Credit/Fail | n/a | Various | Any semester 2 credits | - | By application Spring: Apply by 1/14 |
| Intellectual Property Law: Advanced (Fisher) -Pre-req: see course description - LLMs admitted with Cyberlaw clinic permission (apply by 8/25) | Spring: 3 Thurs, Fri 10:00 am-11:30 am Block D | Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center) | Fall: 2-4, or Winter: 2, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 41415C-1/F | Closed |
| Winter: 41415C-1/W | Closed | ||||
| Spring: 41415C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Introduction to Advocacy (ITA): Criminal Justice (Ogletree) - Pre- or Co-Requisite: TAW and Evidence - 3L students only - Required clinical - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement | ITA - Fall: 3 & Winter: 1 Wed, Thu 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Criminal Justice Institute | ITA: Fall: 3 & Winter: 1 | 39700C-1/FW | Closed |
| TAW - Fall: 3 Sep. 7 - Oct. 1 Mon-Fri, 2pm-9pm | -- | -- | |||
| Introduction to Advocacy (ITA): Criminal Prosecution Perspectives (Corrigan) - Pre- or Co-Requisite: TAW and Evidence - 3L students only - Required clinical - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement | ITA - Fall: 2 & Winter: 1 Thursday 5pm-7pm Block K | District Attorney's Offices of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, or Suffolk Counties | ITA: Fall: 3 & Winter: 1 | 39600C-1/FW | Closed |
| TAW - Fall:3 Sep. 7 - Oct. 1 Mon-Fri, 2pm-9pm | -- | -- | |||
| Introduction to Advocacy (ITA): Skills and Ethics in Clinical Practice (Caramello, Grossman) - Pre- or co-requisite: Evidence - 2L HLAB members only - Required clinical - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement - Clinical grading is Credit/Fail - By application (3/23/10) | Fall: 2 & Spring: 1 Tuesday 3:20pm-4:50pm Block G | Harvard Legal Aid Bureau | Fall: 2 & Spring: 3 | 39511C-1/FS | Closed |
| Judicial Process in Community Courts (Cratsley) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission (apply by 10/1) | Spring: 2 Wednesday 7:00pm-9:00pm Block M | Individual Justices of the District Court, Boston Municipal Court, Juvenile Court, and Housing Court Departments of the Massachusetts Trial Court | Spring: 2-4 | 90920-1/S | Closed |
| Law and Social Movements (Guinier) - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement - Admission by application (11/15) | Spring: 4 Wed, Thurs, Fri 1:20pm-2:40pm Block F | Various local organizations | Spring: 2-4 | 41212C-1/S | Closed |
| Law and the Political Process (Guinier) - LLMs may enroll through clinical registration | Winter: 3 Mon-Fri 1pm-4:15pm | Various local organizations | Spring: 2-4 | 41350C-1/S | Closed |
| Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services A (Charn) - Additional 2 credit workshop required for Legal Services Center students | Fall: 3 Mon 7pm-9pm Tue 5pm-7pm Block I/M (+2 credit workshop) | WilmerHale Legal Services Center clinics: Administrative/Disability, Domestic Violence, Estate Planning, Family Law, LGBT, Health Law, Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing, Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection | Fall: 2-4 | 43300C-1/F | Closed |
| Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services B (Charn) - Additional 2 credit workshop required for Legal Services Center students | Spring: 3 Mon 7pm-9pm Tue 5pm-7pm Block I/M (+ 2 credit workshop) | WilmerHale Legal Services Center clinics: Administrative/Disability, Domestic Violence, Estate Planning, Family Law, LGBT, Health Law, Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing, Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection | Spring: 2-4 | 43300C-1/S | Closed |
| Litigating Using the Alien Tort Statute: Case Studies and Advocacy Seminar (Farbstein, Giannini) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/24) | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | International Human Rights Clinic | Spring: 2-4 | 97025C-1/S | Closed |
| Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project (White) - Required clinical - By application (3/31/10) | Fall: 2 & Winter:1 Tuesday 7:00pm-9:00pm Block M | Ghana Legal Resources Center | Winter: 2 | 43610C-1/S | Closed |
| Mediation (Hoffman) - LLMs may enroll through clinical registration | Spring: 2 Thursday 4:00pm-7:00pm Block X/K | Harvard Mediation Program | Spring: 1 | 44000C-1/S | Closed |
| Music and Digital Media (Bavitz) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/25) | Spring: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block H | Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center) | Fall: 2-4, or Winter: 2, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 92625C-1/F | Closed |
| Winter: 92625C-1/W | Closed | ||||
| Spring: 92625C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Workshop (Sonnenberg) - Required clinical - Pre-requisite: Negotiation Workshop - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 10/18) - Class meets every other week | Spring: 1 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program | Spring: 2-4 | 44105C-1/S | Closed |
| Post Foreclosure Eviction/Housing Law Workshop A (McDonagh) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinic | Fall: 2-4 | 38105C-1/F | Closed |
| Post Foreclosure Eviction/Housing Law Workshop B (McDonagh) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinic | Spring: 2-4 | 38105C-1/S | Closed |
| Poverty Law (White) | Fall: 3 Thu, Fri 10:00am-11:30am Block D | WilmerHale Legal Services Center (Administrative/Disability, Domestic Violence, Estate Planning, Family Law, LGBT, Health, Post-Foreclosure /Housing, Predatory Lending /Consumer Protection) or other legal advocacy groups | Fall: 2-4, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 44575C-1/F | Closed |
| Spring: 44575C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace (Bavitz, Malone) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission (apply by 8/24) | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center) | Fall: 2-4, or Winter: 2, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 98141C-1/F | Closed |
| Winter: 98141C-1/W | Closed | ||||
| Spring: 98141C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Workshop A (Bertling, Weinstein) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block K | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection clinic | Fall: 2-4 | 44795C-1/F | Closed |
| Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Workshop B (Bertling, Weinstein) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block K | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection clinic | Spring: 2-4 | 44795C-1/S | Closed |
| Role of the State Attorney General (Tierney) - Early fall add/drop deadline: 8/2/10 - Early spring add/drop deadline: 1/4/11 | Spring: 2 Monday 1:10pm-3:10pm | Massachusetts Attorney General's Office | Fall: 2-4 or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 45800C-1/F | Closed |
| Spring: 45800C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Securities Regulation B (Jackson) - Early add/drop deadline: June 18 | Spring: 3 Wed, Thu, Fri 8:40am - 9:40am | Securities and Exchange Commission (Boston) | Fall: 2-4 | 46200C-1/F | Closed |
| Sports Law Clinic (Carfagna) - By application - Priority given to prior Sports Law students - Pro bono credit only for non-profit work - LLMs may apply - Applications due 10/1/10 | n/a | Various, including legal departments of major leagues, law firms and lawyers doing sports law represention of individual players or team/leagues | Spring: 2-4 | 41444C-1/S | Closed |
| Supreme Court Litigation (Goldstein, Russell, Howe) - LLMs may apply - Full-time work in DC - Required clinical - Applications due 11/3/10 | Winter: 1 | Cases arranged by instructors | Winter: 2 | 46650C-1/W | Closed |
| Supreme Court and Appellate Practice (Dellinger, Hacker, Srinivasan) - LLMs may apply - Required clinical - Applications due 1/10/11 | Spring: 1 | Cases arranged by instructors | Spring: 2 | 46645C-1/S | Closed |
| Title IX: Seminar (Rosenfeld) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission (apply by 825) - Additional 1 credit workshop required | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | Security on Campus, Inc.; other legal advocacy groups | Fall: 2-4 | 99420C-1/F | Closed |
| Transactional Practice Clinical Workshop A (Price) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with instructor permission (apply by 8/25) | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | Transactional Law Clinics: Business and Non-Profit Clinic, Real Estate Clinic, and Recording Artist Project | Fall: 2-4 | 47532C-1/F | Closed |
| Transactional Practice Clinical Workshop B (Price) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm Block I | Transactional Law Clinics: Business and Non-Profit Clinic, Real Estate Clinic, and Recording Artist Project | Spring: 2-4 | 47532C-1/S | Closed |
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