US Supreme Court Takes Up Jurisdictional Rule Questioned By Tax Clinic
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up another suit trying to sort out which deadlines deprive courts of jurisdiction to hear disputes and which are merely “claims processing rules” that can be tolled. ...
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LSC’s Safety Net Project Students Testify Before Mass Legislature on Importance of Nutrition Benefits
Kate Strickland and Rachel Schwarz, Harvard Law students in LSC’s Safety Net Project, submitted testimony last week on two bills under consideration by the Massachusetts Legislature that would provide support to college students who are ...
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LSC Creates New Poverty Law Workshop, Training Law Students on Safety Net Programs
Drawing on careers spent representing clients accessing safety net benefits, LSC Clinical Instructors and Lecturers-on-Law Julie McCormack and Betsy Gwin have created a new seminar at Harvard Law School, the Poverty Law Workshop. Responding to ...
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LSC Clinical Instructor Peter Perkowski Testifies Before House Committee on Veterans Affairs
On September 22, Peter Perkowski, Clinical Instructor in LSC’s Veterans Legal Clinic, testified before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The hearing, billed under the umbrella of “Creating a Welcoming ...
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Harvard Law School Clinics Redouble Efforts to Assist After Eviction Moratorium’s End
By Rachel Reed/HLS News Staff/ September 10, 2021, in Harvard Law Today The expiration two weeks ago of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related moratorium on evictions has caused new uncertainty for the ...
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American Bar Association Publishes Landmark Guide for Veterans Rights Advocates, Written by LSC Attorneys and Other Legal Experts
CHICAGO, Aug. 31, 2021 — A new book from the American Bar Association, Military Discharge Upgrade Legal Practice Manual, is a desk reference for veteran’s rights advocates to use throughout the process of developing a ...
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Meet the First Trans Women of Color to Teach at Harvard Law
Anya Marino and Alejandra Caraballo talk about the barriers that can systematically block a community from excelling in, or even entering the legal field. “For the longest time … I didn’t see other people who ...
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Project on Predatory Student Lending Commemorates Five Years Fighting the For-Profit College Industry
Since 2016, the project has represented more than a one million borrowers and brought about the cancellation of over $2.5 billion in fraudulent debts Published by Harvard Law Today on August 12, 2021 By Brett ...
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Unsealing Opportunity: The Need for CORI Sealing Services
By Andrew Steinberg, LSC Safety Net Project Summer Intern; Brown University ’22 This piece was also published in the Dorchester Reporter on July 21. Should we punish people for crimes that no longer exist? This ...
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Why Are So Many College Students Going Hungry?
By Joseph Mottola ’23, St. John’s University School of Law; LSC Summer 2021 Law Student Intern A significant percentage of American college students are hungry and don’t know where tomorrow’s meals will come from – ...
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Join Us July for an Online Info Session about SNAP
On Tuesday, July 15 at 1 pm, LSC’s Safety Net Project will host a Zoom info session about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This financial empowerment session, hosted in partnership with the Kirstein ...
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Giving Back to the Greater Boston Community
The Harvard Gazette recently highlighted the work of Harvard students who have contributed their time and energy to giving back to the Greater Boston community. Below, recent Harvard Law graduate Daniel Polonsky, who was a ...
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