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Listed below are courses that offer a clinical component. Note that enrolling in a clinical section adds you to both the class and clinical, and dropping removes you from both components. Courses not listed as 'required clinical' can also be taken as a standalone class. Please note the following:
| Clinic | Clinic Credits & Term | Course Component(s) | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 2L (Caramello, Grossman) - Required clinical - Class & clinic grading is Credit/Fail | Fall: 3 & Spring: 3 | ITA Civil: Skills and Ethics in Clinical Practice | Closed |
| International Human Rights Clinic (Giannini) | Spring: 2-4 | Advanced Skills Training for Human Rights Advocacy; Human Rights and the Environment Clinical Seminar; Human Rights Advocacy and Criminal Justice Clinical Seminar | OPEN |
| Capital Punishment Clinic (Sullivan) - Required winter-spring clinical - Class and clinic graded credit/fail | Winter: 2 and | Capital Punishment Clinical Workshop | Closed |
| Child Advocacy Clinic (Budnitz) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with instructor permission - Early add/drop deadlines: Winter-Spring clinical 11/4/11 and Spring only clinical 12/2/11) | Spring: 3-4 Winter: 2 (optional) | Child Advocacy Clinical Seminar | Winter-Spring: Closed |
| Spring only: Closed | |||
| Cyberlaw clinic (Berkman Center) (Malone) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Winter: 2 or Spring: 2-4 | Cybercrime; Music and Digital Media; Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace | Fall: Closed |
| Winter: Closed | |||
| Spring: Closed | |||
| Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (Bordone) - Pre-requisite: Negotiation Workshop - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 2-4 | Dispute Systems Design | Closed |
| Education Law Clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (Cole, Gregory) - Required clinical | Spring: 2-4 | Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk Clinical Seminar B | Closed |
| Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic (Jacobs) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring 2-4 | Climate and Energy Law and Policy, Climate and Energy Seminar, Environmental Law, Environmental Advocacy: Administrative Hearings / Working with Scientists Seminar, Environmental Advocacy: Citizen Suits Seminar, Federal Public Land and Resources Law, International Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, or Water Law | OPEN |
| Employment Civil Rights Clinic (Churchill) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Spring: 2-4 Winter: 2 (optional) | Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change | Winter-Spring: Closed |
| Spring: OPEN | |||
| WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Family Unit (Odim) | Spring: 2-4 | Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts Clinical Seminar | Closed |
| Federal Debt Collection Clinical Project (Jackson) - Early add/drop deadline 9/6/11 - Training September 7-8, 2011 | Fall: 1 & Spring: 1 | Federal Debt Collection Clinical Program | Closed |
| WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Health Law and Policy Clinic of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center | Spring: 2-4 | Health, Disability and Estate Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Seminar B | OPEN |
| Gender Violence Clinic (Rosenfeld) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission - Additional 1 credit workshop required during clinical term (Fall or Spring) | Spring: 2-4 | Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice | OPEN |
| Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington (Wroblewski) - Additional 1 credit written work - By application: First application deadline 8/19/11, Second application deadline 10/7/11 | Spring: 6 | Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington | Closed |
| Government Lawyer: U.S. Attorney's Office (Heinrich) - Early add/drop deadlines: Fall 6/22/11, Spring 9/13/11 | Spring: 2-4 | Government Lawyer | Closed |
| Green New York (Frug, Barron) - Instructor permission required | Fall: 2 and Spring: 2 | Green New York | Closed |
| Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (Anker) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 2-4 | Immigration and Refugee Advocacy: Clinical Seminar | Closed |
| Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 2L (Caramello, Grossman) - Pre- or co-requisite: Evidence - 2L HLAB members only - Clinical grading is Credit/Fail - By application (3/23/11) | Fall: 2 & Spring: 1 | Introduction to Advocacy: Skills and Ethics in Clinical Practice | Closed |
| Judicial Process in Community Courts Clinic (Cratsley) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Spring: 2-4 | Judicial Process in Community Courts | Closed |
| Law and Social Movements Clinic (Guinier) | Spring: 2-4 | Law and Social Movements | Closed |
| Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services Clinic (Charn) | Spring: 2-4 | Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services B | Closed |
| Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project (White) - By application (4/15/11) | Fall: 1 & Winter:1 & Spring: 1 | Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project | Closed |
| Harvard Mediation Program (Hoffman) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 1 | Mediation | Closed |
| WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinic (McDonagh) - Required clinical | Spring: 2-4 | Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinical Seminar B | OPEN |
| WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection clinic (Bertling, Weinstein) | Spring: 2-4 | Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Seminar | OPEN |
| Prison Law and Policy Clinic (Dolovich) - LLMs admitted with Clinical office permission | Spring: 2-4 | Prison Law and Policy | Closed |
| Government Lawyer: State Attorney General (Tierney, Friedman) - Early add/drop deadlines: Fall 8/19/11, Spring 1/3/12 | Spring: 2-4 | Role of the State Attorney General | Closed |
| Shareholder Rights Project (Bebchuk, Hirst) - By application (application period closed) | Fall: 1 and Spring: 1 | Shareholder Rights Clinical Workshop | Closed |
| Sports Law Clinic (Carfagna) - Application deadline 10/14/11 - Pro bono credit only for non-profit work - LLMs may apply | Winter: 2 or Spring: 2-4 | HLS Sports Law course | Closed |
| Transactional Law Clinics (Price) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Spring: 2-4 | Transactional Practice Clinical Seminar B | OPEN |
| Clinical Course | Class Credits & Time | Clinical Placements | Clinical Term & Credits | MyPlan Code | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Clinical Practice (Caramello, Grossman) - Required clinical - Class & clinic grading is Credit/Fail | Fall: 1 & Spring: 1 Thursday 3:15pm-5:00pm | Harvard Legal Aid Bureau | Fall: 3 & Spring: 3 | 32355C-1/FS | Closed |
| Advanced Skills Training for Human Rights Advocacy (Giannini, Farbstein) - Required clinical - Pre-requisite: Prior IHRC clinic | Fall: 2 Wednesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | International Human Rights Clinic | Fall or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 94744C-1/F | Closed |
| Spring: 94744C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Capital Punishment Clinical Workshop (Sullivan) - Required winter-spring clinical - Class and clinic graded credit/fail | Spring: 1 | Center for Death Penalty Litigation; Equal Justice Initiative; Southern Center for Human Rights; Texas Defender Service; others | Winter: 2 & Spring: 2-4 | 31985C-1/WS | Closed |
| Child Advocacy Clinic (Budnitz) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with instructor permission - Early add/drop deadlines: Winter-Spring clinical 11/4/11 and Spring only clinical 12/2/11) | Spring: 2 Wednesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | 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 | Close |
| Spring only: 32080C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Cybercrime (Malone) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Spring: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm | 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 | Full Long WL | ||||
| Dispute Systems Design (Van Loo) - Pre-requisite: Negotiation Workshop - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program | Spring: 2-4 | 92792C-1/S | Full Short WL |
| Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk Clinical Seminar A (Cole, Gregory) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Education Law Clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative | Fall: 2-4 | 35244C-1/F | Closed |
| Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk Clinical Seminar B (Cole, Gregory) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Education Law Clinic / Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative | Spring: 2-4 | 35244C-1/S | Full Short WL |
| Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic A (Jacobs) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission - Clinical credits only - Pre/co-requisite: HLS environmental law course, see clinic description for listing of eligible courses | N/A | Environmental Law and Policy Clinic or other environmental organizations | Fall 3-4 | 35501C-1/F | Closed |
| Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic B (Jacobs) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission - Clinical credits only - Pre/co-requisite: HLS environmental law course, see clinic description for listing of eligible courses | N/A | Environmental Law and Policy Clinic or other environmental organizations | Spring 3-4 | 35501C-1/S | OPEN |
| Employment Law Workshop: Advocacy Skills (Churchill) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission - Required clinical credits | Fall: 2 Wednesday 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Greater Boston Legal Services, private firms | Fall 2-4 | 35315C-1/F | Closed |
| Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change (Churchill) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission - Required clinical credits | Spring: 2 Wednesday 7:00pm-9:00pm | Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Greater Boston Legal Services, private firms | Spring: 2-4 Winter (optional): 2 | Winter & Spring 35312C-1/WS | Closed |
| Spring: 35312C-1/S | OPEN | ||||
| Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts Clinical Seminar (Odim) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Domestic Violence, Family Law, or GLBT clinics | Fall or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 36515C-1/F | Closed |
| Spring: 36515C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Federal Debt Collection Workshop (Jackson) - Required clinical - Early add/drop deadline 9/6/11 - Training September 7-8, 2011 | Fall: 1 & Spring: 1 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm | U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service | Fall:1 & Spring: 1 | 93912C-1/FS | Closed |
| Food: A Health Law and Policy Seminar (Greenwald) | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Health Law and Policy Clinic of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center | Fall: 2-4, or Winter: 2, or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 93939C-1/F | Closed |
| Winter: 93939C-1/W | Closed | ||||
| Spring: 93939C-1/S | Closed | ||||
| Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice (Rosenfeld) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission - Additional 1 credit workshop required during clinical term (Fall or Spring) | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | 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 or Spring: 2-4 | Fall: 94020C-1/F | Closed |
| Spring: 94020C-1/S | Full Short WL | ||||
| Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington (Wroblewski) - Required clinical - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement - Additional 1 credit written work - By application: First application deadline 8/19/11, Second application deadline 10/7/11 | Spring: 3 TBD | Federal executive, legislative, and agency offices in Washington, DC | Spring: 6 Winter: 2 (optional) | Winter & Spring: 38001C-1/WS | By application (10/7/11) |
| Spring: 38001C-1/S | By application (10/7/11) | ||||
| Government Lawyer (Heinrich) - Early add/drop deadlines: Fall 6/22/11, Spring 9/13/11 - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement | Fall: 3 Mon, Tue 10:30am-12:00pm | 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, Barron) - Required clinical - Instructor permission required | Fall: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm | New York City Law Department | Spring: 2 | 94035C-1/S | Closed |
| Health, Disability and Estate Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Seminar A (Greenwald) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm | 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 Seminar B (Greenwald) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Administrative/Disability, Health Law, Estate Planning clinics | Spring: 2-4 | 38093C-1/S | OPEN |
| Human Rights Advocacy and Criminal Justice: Clinical Seminar (Delgado) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | International Human Rights Clinic | Spring 2-4 | 94746C-1/S | OPEN |
| Human Rights Advocacy and the United States: Clinical Seminar (Cavallaro, Popowski) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | International Human Rights Clinic | Fall 2-4 | 94747C-1/F | Closed |
| Human Rights and the Environment: Clinical Seminar (Giannini, Docherty) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | International Human Rights Clinic | Spring 2-4 | 94611C-1/S | OPEN |
| Immigration and Refugee Advocacy: Clinical Seminar (Anker) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic | Fall: 2-4 | 98460C-1/F | Closed |
| Immigration and Refugee Advocacy: Clinical Seminar (Ardalan) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic | Spring: 2-4 | 98460C-1/S | Full Medium WL |
| Independent Clinical - Grading is Credit/Fail | n/a | Various | Any semester 2 credits | - | By application |
| Introduction to Advocacy: Criminal Justice (Ogletree) - Pre- or Co-Requisite: TAW and Evidence - 3L students only - Required clinical - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement - Early add/drop deadline: 9/9/11 | ITA: Fall: 3 W,TH 5-7pm Winter: 1 W, TH 12pm-2pm | Criminal Justice Institute | ITA: Fall: 3 & Winter: 1 | 39700C-1/FW | Closed |
| TAW : Fall: 3 Sep. 12-30 Mon-Fri, 2pm-9pm | -- | -- | |||
| Introduction to Advocacy: Criminal Prosecution Perspectives (Corrigan) - Pre- or Co-Requisite: TAW and Evidence - 3L students only - Required clinical - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement | ITA: | District Attorney's Offices of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, or Suffolk Counties | ITA: Fall: 3 & Winter: 1 | 39600C-1/FW | Closed |
| TAW: Fall:3 Sep. 12-30 Mon-Fri, 2pm-9pm | -- | -- | |||
| Introduction to Advocacy: 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 (3/23/11) | Fall: 2 & Spring: 1 M,T,W 3:20pm-4:50pm | Harvard Legal Aid Bureau | Fall: 3 & Spring: 3 | 39511C-1/FS | Closed |
| Judicial Process in Community Courts (Cratsley) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Individual Justices of the District Court, Boston Municipal Court, Juvenile Court, and Housing Court Departments of the Massachusetts Trial Court | Spring: 2-4 | 90920C-1/S | Full Long WL |
| Law and Social Movements (Guinier) | Spring: 4 Mon, Tue 1:10pm-3:10pm | Various local organizations | Spring: 2-4 | 41212C-1/S | OPEN |
| Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services A (Charn) - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement | Fall: 3 Mon 7:00pm-9:00pm Tue 5:00pm-7:00pm | Externship organizations arranged with Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs | Fall: 2-4 | 43300C-1/F | Closed |
| Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services B (Charn) - Fulfills professional responsibility requirement | Spring: 3 Mon 7:00pm-9:00pm Tue 5:00pm-7:00pm | Externship organizations arranged with Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs | Spring: 2-4 | 43300C-1/S | OPEN |
| Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project (White) - Required clinical - By application (4/15/11) | Fall: 1 & Winter:1 & Spring: 1 Tuesday 7:00pm-9:00pm | Ghana Legal Resources Center | Winter: 2 | 43610C-1/S | Closed |
| Mediation (Hoffman) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 3 Thursday 4:00pm-7:00pm | Harvard Mediation Program | Spring: 1 | 44000C-1/S | Full Long WL |
| Music and Digital Media (Bavitz) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Spring: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm | 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 | Full Long WL | ||||
| Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Workshop (McClane) - Pre-requisite: Negotiation Workshop | Fall: 1 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program | Fall: 2-4 | 44105C-1/F | Closed |
| Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinical Seminar A (McDonagh) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinic or local externship organizations | Fall: 2-4 | 38105C-1/F | Closed |
| Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinical Seminar B (McDonagh) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinic | Spring: 2-4 | 38105C-1/S | OPEN |
| Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace (Bavitz, Malone) - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Fall: 2 Wednesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | 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 Seminar A (Bertling, Weinstein) - Required clinical | Fall: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection clinic | Fall: 2-4 | 44795C-1/F | Closed |
| Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Seminar B (Bertling, Weinstein) - Required clinical | Spring: 2 Thursday 5:00pm-7:00pm | WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Predatory Lending / Consumer Protection clinic | Spring: 2-4 | 44795C-1/S | Full Short WL |
| Prison Law and Policy (Dolovich) - LLMs admitted with Clinical office permission | Spring: 4 | TBD | Spring: 2-4 Winter (optional): 2 | Winter & Spring 44305C-1/WS | Full Short WL |
| Spring: 44305C-1/S | OPEN | ||||
| Role of the State Attorney General (Tierney, Friedman) - Early add/drop deadlines: Fall 8/19/11, Spring 1/3/12 | Spring: 2 | Massachusetts Attorney General's Office | Spring: 2 | Fall: 45800C-1/F | Closed |
| Spring: 45800C-1/S | Full Long WL | ||||
| Securities Regulation Clinic (Stern) - Clinical credits only - Pre/co-requisite: Securities Regulation class - Early add/drop deadline: 6/22/11 | N/A | Securities and Exchange Commission (Boston) | Fall 2-4 | 46200C-1/F | Closed |
| Shareholder Rights Clinical Workshop (Bebchuk, Hirst) - Required clinical - By application (application period now closed) | Spring: 1 Time TBD | Shareholder Rights Project | Fall:1 & Spring: 1 | 46383C-1/FS | Closed |
| Sports Law Clinic (Carfagna) - Application deadline 10/14/11 - Clinical credits only - Pro bono credit only for non-profit work - LLMs may apply | n/a | Various, including legal departments of major leagues, law firms and lawyers doing sports law representation of individual players or team/leagues | Spring: 2-4 | 41444C-1/S | By application (10/14/11) |
| Supreme Court Litigation (Goldstein, Russell, Howe) - LLMs may apply - Located in Washington, DC - Required clinical - Application deadline 10/16/11 | Winter: 1 | Cases arranged by instructors | Winter: 2 | 46650C-1/W | By application (10/16/11) |
| The Promises and Challenges of Disarmament: Clinical Seminar (Docherty) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with clinic permission | Fall: 2 | International Human Rights Clinic | Fall 2-4 | 94748C-1/F | Closed |
| Title IX: Seminar (Rosenfeld) - LLMs admitted with instructor permission - Additional 1 credit workshop required | Fall: 2 Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Arranged with instructor | Fall: 2-4 | 99420C-1/F | Closed |
| Transactional Practice Clinical Seminar A (Price) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Fall: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Transactional Law Clinics: Business and Non-Profit Clinic, Real Estate Clinic, and Recording Artist Project | Fall: 3-4 | 47532C-1/F | Closed |
| Transactional Practice Clinical Seminar B (Price) - Required clinical - LLMs admitted with instructor permission | Spring: 2 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm | Transactional Law Clinics: Business and Non-Profit Clinic, Real Estate Clinic, and Recording Artist Project | Spring: 3-4 | 47532C-1/S | Full Very Long WL |