Charles J. Ogletree,
Faculty Director

WELCOME TO THE SATURDAY SCHOOL WEBSITE AT HLS

The Saturday School Program at Harvard Law School was created by Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. in 1988. Some of the aims of Saturday School are:

1. to promote increased dialogue between students and professors,
   
   
2. to provide students with direct and substantive feedback needed to improve their analytic and writing ability,
   
   
3. to provide exposure to positive role models in other professions, and
   
   
4. to give authors and activists an opportunity to present cutting edge, and often controversial, works in progress to a group of articulate, critical and reflective law students.

Over the years, students report that Saturday School has helped them in several significant ways by encouraging greater class participation, promoting the formation of study groups, developing confidence to engage in acute, legal analysis and by practicing writing and exam exercises. The goals of the program are accomplished through a series of informal lectures by individuals from diverse backgrounds and careers such as law professors, judges, former prison inmates, writers, artists, government and law enforcement officials and health care.