On Winning and Losing: What Public Interest Litigation Is Fighting For
By Stephanie Kelemen ’22, Domestic Violence and Family Law Clinic I lost my first appeal, and I am not sad. Over the course of a year, I put my blood, sweat, and tears into the ...
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When Perpetrators of Domestic Violence Use Civil Court System to Re-Victimize Survivors
By Madeline Finnegan ’23, Domestic Violence and Family Law Clinic While domestic violence is sometimes dealt with in the criminal justice system, more frequently it is handled as a civil matter disputed in Probate and ...
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LSC Tax Clinic Achieves Meaningful Changes in Two Tax Court Procedures Affecting Low-Income and Pro Se Litigants
As the old saying goes: The pen is mightier than the sword. Yet it is not very common for a law review article to prompt real-world reform. Recently, however, attorneys and students in LSC’s Tax ...
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A Haven for Taxpayers: Harvard Law’s Federal Tax Clinic Helps Low-income Taxpayers Shed Their Debts — and Stress
By Rachel Reed | Published by Harvard Law Today on April 18, 2022 Everyone knows the old saying about death and taxes, and it’s hardly a secret that filing income taxes — and communicating with ...
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LSC Housing Clinic Offers Testimony in Support of Massachusetts Bill to Seal Eviction Records
On April 1, LSC’s Housing Clinic submitted testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature in support of H 4505, an act Promoting Housing Opportunity and Mobility through Eviction Sealing. Referred to as the HOMES Act, the bill ...
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LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic: Fighting for Privacy, Fighting for Dignity
By Olivia Klein, Harvard Law School Office of Clinical Programs A transgender individual heads to their local DMV for a standard appointment – a registration renewal or driver’s license issuance. Just like the person at the ...
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Virtual Event – Mass & Cass and the Crisis of Homelessness: The Interaction of Mental Health, Addiction, and the Law in the Lives of People Without Permanent Housing
From the Boston Bar Association: The Mass and Cass humanitarian crisis, and, more generally, the crisis of homelessness in Greater Boston, has attracted wide media and public attention. This panel discussion, which brings together experts ...
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Limiting Lessons: An Interview with LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic Director on Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill
Alexander Chen of Harvard Law’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic says Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill likely will face First Amendment and Equal Protection Clause challenges By Rachel Reed/Harvard Law Today – March 30, 2022 Credit: CHANDAN ...
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Tax Clinic Helps Single Moms and Kids Get Child Tax Credit and CARES Act Funds Wrongly Paid to Abusive Former Partners
Maureen* is the single mom of three children ages six and younger. After several years in an abusive relationship with her children’s father, she is working to move forward and create a new future for ...
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LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic Joins FreeState Justice in Calling on Maryland House of Delegates to Reject Harmful Bill that Would Prohibit Transgender Students from Participating in School Sports
The Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and FreeState Justice issued the following press release. ANNAPOLIS, MD – On February 24, 2020, a broad coalition of organizations and individuals—including the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy ...
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Senator Gillibrand, Veterans’ Advocates, and Experts Examine the Legacy of Burn Pit Exposures on the Health of Military Servicemembers and Veterans
Burn pits—where trash and other waste are disposed of through burning in large, uncovered pits, often with an accelerant like jet fuel—were once commonly used by the U.S. military, particularly in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other ...
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Crooked Judges, Fraudulent Lawyers, and How the Social Security Administration Has Failed 3,500 People
By Jeffrey Jiang ’22 The story of Eric Conn is a years-long saga involving a scam artist who extracted over half a billion dollars from the U.S. government, an administrative law judge (ALJ) who covered ...
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