HARVARD LAW SCHOOL CLASS OF 2019 CLINICAL AND PRO BONO PROGRAMS LEARNING THE LAW | SERVING THE WORLD COMMENCEMENT NEWSLETTER “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. For the J.D. Class of 2019, eighty-six percent of the class will have taken a clinic, and forty-eight percent will have taken two or more. 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 Harvard Law School “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 Clinical and Pro Bono Programs BY THE NUMBERS IN HOUSE CLINICS Animal Law and Policy Clinic CLASS OF 2019 Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation Food Law and Policy Clinic Health Law and Policy Clinic 50 651 Community Enterprise Project Criminal Justice Institute pro bono hours average number of Crimmigration Clinic required of J.D. students pro bono hours per student in the J.D. Cyberlaw Clinic before graduation Class of 2019 during their time at HLS Education Law Clinic Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 390,095 Harvard Dispute Systems Design Clinic pro bono hours completed Impact Defense Initiative by J.D. Class of 2019 International Human Rights Clinic Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project Clinic Transactional Law Clinics 32 992 WilmerHale Legal Services Center LL.M. clinical clinical placements Domestic Violence and Family Law Clinic placements Federal Tax Clinic Housing Law Clinic Predatory Lending/Consumer Protection Clinic Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic EXTERNSHIP CLINICS Capital Punishment Clinic 86% 48% Child Advocacy Clinic did two or more Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic of the J.D. Class of 2019 clinics Criminal Prosecution Clinic participated in clinical work Democracy and Rule of Law Clinic Employment Law Clinic Government Lawyer: State Attorney General Clinic Government Lawyer: United States Attorney Clinic 64 Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinic 99 Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic Clinical Faculty Sports Law Clinic clinical courses and Teachers Supreme Court Litigation Clinic STUDENT PRACTICE ORGANIZATIONS Harvard Defenders Harvard Law Immigration Project 4,865,202 Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project HLS Negotiators hours of pro bono legal services work provided Harvard Mediation Program by HLS students since 2005 HLS Advocates for Human Rights Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project Mississippi Delta Project Project No One Leaves 21 12 11 Recording Artists Project Tenant Advocacy Project In-House Clinics Externship Clinics Student Practice Organizations CLINICAL AND PRO BONO PROGRAMS PAGE 1 By Alexis Farmer From left to right: Lisandra Novo ’19, Lindsay Bailey ’19, and Elisa Quiroz ’19 Credit: Lorin Granger Lindsay Bailey J.D. ’19, Lisandra Novo J.D. ’19 and sacre—from discovery and depositions, to summary Elisa Quiroz J.D. ’19 are the winners of the team 2019 judgment, to a month-long trial, to the current appeal. David Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award. The award is named in honor of the late Clinical Profes- Professor Susan Farbstein praised their advanced level sor of Law David Grossman ’88, a public interest law- of legal analysis, judgment, creativity, and empathy yer dedicated to providing high-quality legal services to with clients in saying, “Together, Lindsay, Lisandra, low-income communities, and it recognizes students and Elisa have demonstrated all the hallmarks of who have demonstrated excellence in representing indi- thoughtful, critical, and reflective human rights advoca- vidual clients and undertaking advocacy or policy re- cy. They have done it as a team which is, in fact, the form projects. only way real change ever happens. Each of them is whip smart, passionate, and committed, and can be de- The trio is being honored for their two years of excep- pended on to tackle the toughest assignments with rigor tional work together with the International Human and produce the highest quality of work. Yet together, Rights Clinic on the Clinic’s Mamani case, seeking to they are even greater than the sum of their individual hold the former Bolivian president and minister of de- talents.” fense accountable for their role in a 2003 civilian mas- LEARNING THE LAW | SERVING THE WORLD PAGE 2 (continued) Lindsay Bailey J.D. ’19 her third year at the Graduate Institute for International Law and Lindsay has long Development in Geneva, Switzerland. Lisandra and Elisa both been actively in- participated in a spring break pro bono trip in Puerto Rico for volved in interna- hurricane relief work in March 2019. After graduation she will tional human be conducting independent research on enforced disappearances rights focused in Spain as a Fulbright Fellow. organizations. Prior to HLS, Elisa Quiroz J.D. ’19 Lindsay spent three years in Elisa Quiroz had an interest in pursuing a career in international Ghana working human rights work long before coming to HLS. Her childhood with municipal in Chile exposed her to human rights issues early on. “If you governments to grow up in a country that has lived through a dictatorship, you improve project hear the stories all the time, and that makes human rights law planning, budget- very tangible in a way that maybe countries that are more re- ing, and municipal moved from that experience don’t know,” she told Harvard Law taxes. In Ghana Today. In 2017, Elisa was also awarded a Chayes Fellowship to she worked for a work in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for variety of organi- Human Rights in Geneva (OHCHR). At OHCHR, Quiroz zations, including worked on projects with the UN Special Rapporteurs on freedom Engineers With- of expression, independence of judges and lawyers, the right to out Borders Am- health, and the right to education. During her 2L year, she was plify Governance, awarded a Human Rights Program Travel Grant to conduct re- Global Communi- search in Chile examining the government’s legislative and poli- ties, and UNICEF. cy responses to the country’s rapid rise in migration. Next year, Lindsay Bailey ’19 she will be working as a legal fellow at TRIAL International in Since beginning law Geneva, Switzerland. school, she has spent four semesters in the international human rights clinic, volunteered with HLS Advocates for Human Rights for two years, and has been a research assistant at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict. She currently serves as the Co-President of the Harvard Law and International Development Society. Lindsay spent a winter Independent Clinical with the Public In- ternational Law and Policy Group in Jordan as part of the Re- ginald F. Lewis Internship Program. She also was an article edi- tor on the Harvard Human Rights Journal and an article editor and Community Development Director for the Harvard International Law Journal. Last August, she published an article, “Can There Be an Accidental Extrajudicial Killing? Understanding standards of intent in the Torture Victim Protection Act” in the International Law Journal. Next year Lindsay will continue her work in human rights litigation at the Center for Justice and Accountability. Lisandra Novo J.D. ’19 Born in Cuba, Lisandra narrowed her interest in international human rights and criminal law early on, focusing particularly on accountability for human rights violations committed by state officials. She was awarded a Chayes Fellowship in 2017 to work at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica. There she worked primarily on cases related to the justicia- Elisa Quiroz ’19 and Lisandra Novo ’19 working at Ayuda bility of social, cultural and economic rights. In her first year Legal over Spring Break 2019. Credit: Alexis Farmer at HLS, she was a member of the HLS Immigration Project’s Removal Defense Project, an interpreter for the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, co-communications chair for the Harvard European Law Association, and an article editor for the Harvard Online International Law Read about their work on the Mamani case on page 9. Journal’s spring symposium on the crime of aggression. She spent the fall semester of CLINICAL AND PRO BONO PROGRAMS PAGE 3 By Alexis Farmer Dalia Deak J.D. ’19 is this year’s winner of the individual Da- Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; vid Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award, given each that complaint resulted in some insurers discontinuing the dis- year to a student who embodies the pro bono spirit of the late criminatory practice of adverse tiering standard-of-care Clinical Professor of Law David Grossman ’88 and exempli- drugs for individuals with pre-existing conditions like HIV.