Introduction
“One of the best aspects of Harvard Law School is working with the remarkable energy, creativity, and dynamism of our students. They come to HLS with a wide range of backgrounds and a wealth of experiences from which our Clinics and our clients benefit and grow. Our Clinical Program is never static – we are constantly reinventing ourselves in response to client needs, student interests, and national and international issues. As we advise and mentor individual students on their path to becoming ethical lawyers, the students, in turn, teach us to look at legal problems with a fresh set of eyes each and every day. This constant sense of wonder permeates our Clinical Programs and invigorates the learning process.”
LISA DEALY
ASSISTANT DEAN OF CLINICAL AND PRO BONO PROGRAMS
“The Harvard Law School Clinical and Pro Bono Programs provide an exceptional educational experience for our students and superb legal representation to countless people. Our clinicians and our students work together to solve hard problems, to illuminate complex issues of profound social and legal import, and to serve communities and individuals by providing top flight lawyering. In the process, our students acquire from outstanding teachers and role models, excellent experience in practice and procedure, an impressive knowledge of the law in a vast number of areas, a deep understanding of professionalism, and the art of team work. Our students bring to their work a commitment to public service that we hope they take with them throughout their careers. I am very proud of the faculty and staff who lead and support our clinics, of the work our clinics and student practice organizations do, and of the great lawyers they help launch into the world.”
JOHN MANNING
MORGAN AND HELEN CHU DEAN OF HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
Class of 2021: By the Numbers
In-House Clinics
Animal Law & Policy Clinic
Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation
>>> Food Law & Policy Clinic
>>> Health Law & Policy Clinic
Criminal Justice Institute
Cyberlaw Clinic
Education Law Clinic
Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic
Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinical Program
>>> Immigration & Refugee Advocacy Clinic
>>> Crimmigration Clinic
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Harvard Dispute Systems Design Clinic
Impact Defense Initiative
International Human Rights Clinic
Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project
Religious Freedom Clinic
Transactional Law Clinics
WilmerHale Legal Services Center
>>> Domestic Violence & Family Law Clinic
>>> Federal Tax Clinic
>>> Housing Law Clinic
>>> LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic
>>> Predatory Lending & Consumer Protection Clinic
>>> Veterans Law & Disability Benefits Clinic
Externship Clinics
Capital Punishment Clinic
Child Advocacy Clinic
Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic
Criminal Prosecution Clinic
Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic
Employment Law Clinic
Federal Courts Clinic
Government Lawyer: Attorney General Clinic
Government Lawyer: U.S. Attorney Clinic
Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington
Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic
Sports Law Clinic
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
Voting Rights Litigation & Advocacy Clinic
Clinical & Pro Bono Awards
Dennis Ojogho
benjamin antillon Fernandez & linda heeyoung park
brooke davies & daniel oyolu
brianna johnson-king
nora mcdonnell
kiah duggins, elizabeth melampy, & katie quigley
In-House Clinics
There are 22 in-house clinics with on-campus offices, where students gain hands-on legal experience under the supervision of 115 clinical faculty and teachers. Each clinic is tied to a classroom component where students learn the substantive law in their area of practice. Their clinical experiences supplement and enrich classroom discussion.
Madeline Kane
Externship & Independent Clinical Program
Through our 14 externship clinics, students are placed at government agencies and other legal organizations across the U.S. and supplement that experience through a required course component taught by faculty and experienced licensed attorneys who are experts in their field. The Independent Clinical Program is designed to provide students an opportunity to be entrepreneurial and design a custom placement — in the U.S. or abroad — that will meet their individualized learning goals.
ANITA LIU
CHRIS STEVENSON
LAURA LONDONO PARDO
Lowry Yankwich
SARAH RUBIN
BRENDAN SCHNEIDERMAN
virginia wright
MADELINE KANE
Student Practice Organizations &
Pro Bono Program
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The HLS Pro Bono program allows students to gain practical legal experience under the supervision of licensed attorneys starting their 1L year. J.D. students are required to complete 50 hours of pro bono work before graduation. Through opportunities to volunteer in our 11 student-run Student Practice Organizations (SPOs) and through yearly spring break projects, amongst other individual projects, students have the ability to make a positive impact in their communities and contribute to the greater good.
Student Practice Organizations
“It was incredibly rewarding to use my research for FAMM to help my wonderful client, and to see how useful our work product was in practice. More importantly, my experience volunteering with FAMM prepared me to go into my first meeting with our client truly prepared to help represent him and give him the best possible chance at compassionate release. I loved working on the motion because of my client, but I was ready to write the best motion possible for my client because of my work with FAMM.”
SARAH PARKER ’21
“One of my main goals as a moderator [for Harvard Defenders’ Litman Symposium] was to push discourse on reforming the criminal legal system beyond the typical conversations one may hear in law school settings…there are very few, if any, spaces that expressly center the role of systemic oppression and how the inherent harms of the criminal legal system compound the trauma experienced by marginalized communities.”
MARA CHIN LOY ’21
“During my first year of law school, I was eager to get away from the HLS bubble and our classroom hypotheticals by meeting and helping people in Greater Boston. I was thrilled to be selected into the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP), which provides representation and advice to tenants of affordable housing who are facing eviction or subsidy termination.”
ALEV ERHAN ’21
Student Achievements
Alexis Yeboah-Kodie ’21 wins the 2021 William J. Stuntz Memorial Award for Justice, Human Dignity, and Compassion
Clinical Experience Paves The Way – 2021 Skadden Fellows
Juan Alberto Espinoza Munoz
Megan Garrett Jones
Alexandria Rene Smith
Joy Sun
Erica Taicz-Blandon
Alexis Patricia Afriyie Yeboah-Kodie
Benjamin Antillon Fernandez
Mackenzie J. Arnold
Hadhy H. Ayaz
Ameze Selma Belo-Osagie
Audrey Elizabeth Berdahl-Baldwin
Andrew Dean Boes
Justin M. Bogda
Holly Jeanine Boux
Molly E. Broderick
Benjamin Buchholz
Anna Simone Carlsson
Todd A. Carney
Jacob Ralph Carrel
Sara Dillon Carter
Minh-Thu V. Che
Philip Chertoff
Tamara Lisa Chin Loy
Aanchal Chugh
Laura M. Clark
Katherine A. Clements
Evan Daniel Cooper
Maura Renee Cremin
Peter Orville Daniels
Madeleine R DeMeules
Antonia Diener
Alexandre Edde Diniz de Oliveira
Taylor N. Dodson
Anna J. Dorman
Kiah Danielle Duggins
Margaret J. Dushko
Amanda Epstein
Alev Erhan
Matthew P. Farrell
Elizabeth Sessions Feldstein
Nicole L. Ferroux
Travis Walker Fife
Laura Katherine Follansbee
Andrea Frances Forsee
A. Shane Fowler
Gabrielle Frieser
Madeleine Ambrose Gates
Cooper Franklin Godfrey
Andrew Brichael Gonzales
Mikayla A. Harvey
Samuel Alexander Hecht
Joshua M. Hillman
Nicholas Tift Hine
Emma Caroline Hobbs
Joy Lorine Holden
Richard Samuel Horan
Caroline Jane Horrow
Benjamin Horton
Maris Bartow Hubbard
Sum Yi Jessica Hui
Nomin-Erdene Jagdagdorj
Mahroh Faisal Jahangiri
Isabelle Jensen
Anne Bailey Kapnick
Jessica Katzen
Taylor Marcella Keating
Mary Claire Kelly
Jordan A. Kennedy
Rund Khayyat
Claudia C. Khoury-Yacoub
Taeyoung Kim
Elie Welles Kirshner
Jennifer Ann Lambert
Johanna E. Lee
Ava Rong Liu
Laura Londoño Pardo
Ethan Ross Lowens
Kayla L. Lucia
Armani Jamal Madison
Samuel W. Magaram
Jamie Dominique Utzurrum Magcale
John Karl Malchar
Sarah Diane Margulies
Gaia L. Mattiace
Patrick T. Maxwell
Nora Aimee McDonnell
Margaret Phyllis McGovern
Louisa Hernández McIntyre
David Joseph McKenna
Elizabeth Ann MeLampy
Daniel Milton Meyer
Caroline Elizabeth Milosevich
Julia Rae More
Julian Morimoto
Eugene Nam
Margaret Joan Zimmerly Neely
Keir O. Negron
Christine A. Nelson
Tayonna S. Ngutter
Dennis Obioma Ojogho
Charles J. Orta
Heeyoung Park
Sunoo E. Park
Derrick L. Parker, Jr.
Sarah E. Parker
Isabel G. Patkowski
Renee Pauline Tiongson Perez
Laurel Arwen Petrulionis
David Alexander Piña
Daniel Jordan Z. Polonsky
Mary Engel Anderson Prothero
Graham A. Provost
Kathleen W. Quigley
Rebecca Allison Raftery
James Stevenson Ramsey
Shaiba Rather
Emily A. Ray
Samuel Adam Rebo
Tiffany Pamela Rodriguez
Vanessa Carolina Rodriguez
Nina Katherine Adams Roesner
Chelsea Rae Rooney
Sarah Elizabeth Rubin
Jason Salgado
Areeb A. Salim
Adam Emanuel Adatto Sandel
Richard Scott Sanderson
Michaeljit S. Sandhu
Ariel R. Sarandinaki
Erika Sho Powell Sato
Jessica Jacobsen Wendkouni Sawadogo
Rachel June Schaub
Brendan Rae Schneiderman
Jesse E. Schwab
Wenyue Sheng
Jung Min Shin
Raymond B. Simmons, Jr.
Danielle E. Simms
Caya Rose Chantry Simonsen
Noah Isaac Star
Andrew H. Stawasz
Jacob Robert Steinberg-Otter
Sarah Tansey
Leigh Rachel Thomas
Michael John Torcello
Anna Kay Vande Velde
Christina Emelia Volcy
Kurt D. Walters
Alexandra Farel Wolfson
Jaehyuk You
Student Voices
In Memoriam
