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Youth Advocacy & Policy Lab (Y-Lab)

Youth Advocacy & Policy Lab (Y-Lab)

Harvard Law School

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Writing Program

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The Writing Program is led by Y-Lab’s Assistant Director, Crisanne Hazen, Faculty Director, Professor Michael Gregory, and Professor Mary Welstead (University of Buckingham, United Kingdom). It offers students (JDs, LLMs, and SJDs) a supportive learning community in which to share ideas and give and receive feedback on writing projects in progress. In their third year, Youth Advocacy Fellows are required to write a capstone research paper and take part in the Writing Program, but participation is open to all students writing a paper who wish to participate.

Writing Program participants meet informally on a regular basis throughout the fall semester (usually over lunch) to discuss their individual research and writing on topics broadly relevant to Y-Lab. All participants have the potential to receive 1 credit through Professor Gregory’s Writing Group, Topics in Children/Youth and the Law. In the spring, if they choose to, participants may give semi-formal presentations of their working papers to an invited academic audience over lunch, followed by questions and discussion.

Previous Writing Program participants have found the experience valuable as preparation for making more formal presentations at national and international conferences.

Presentation topics from past years have included, among others:

  • International adoption
  • Children and domestic violence
  • Universal drug testing for newborns
  • Substance abuse in pregnant mothers
  • Child trafficking for labor in Nigeria
  • Street children of Brazil
  • Prosecuting the recruitment of child soldiers
  • Forced marriage
  • Religious symbols in public schools and universities
  • Female genital mutilation
  • Children and online privacy

Click here to view details about the spring 2022 Writing Program presentations.

Click here for information about previous Writing Program participants. (Formerly known as the “CAP Writing Program.”)

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Information for Students

  • 2023-2024 Courses
  • Youth Advocacy & Policy Fellows Program
  • Child Advocacy Clinic
  • Education Law Clinic
  • Impact Litigation Clinic
  • Individual Representation
  • Legislative & Administrative Lawyering
  • Art of Social Change
  • Cross Registration
  • Writing Program
  • Student Opportunities

Recent Posts

  • Katie Martinez, JD’23, Honored with CLEA Award
  • Molly Crane Receives 2023 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award
  • Y-Lab Celebrates First Graduates of its Youth Advocacy Fellow Program
  • The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth – A Talk with Professor and Author Kristin Henning
  • Y-Lab Writing Program Lunch Talk with Brian Dezurick (JD ’23) and Alyssa Milstead (JD ’23)

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