Learn About Children and the Law: Spring 2024 Course Offerings
Join us for courses on children and the law in Spring 2024! ART OF SOCIAL CHANGE: CHILD WELFARE, EDUCATION, AND JUVENILE JUSTICE Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice explores various strategies for systemic law and policy reform, focusing on legal systems that impact children, including the education, juvenile legal, and child […]
Katie Martinez, JD’23, Honored with CLEA Award
Katie Martinez is an HLS recipient of the 2023 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Outstanding Clinical Student Awards. She is recognized for “her unwavering dedication to the Child Advocacy Clinic,” during which she completed an externship with the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Youth Advocacy Division (YAD) through Y-Lab. Katie also participated in Y-Lab’s Education […]
Molly Crane Receives 2023 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award
Molly Crane is the 2023 recipient of the Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award given “[to] a member of the J.D. class who has displayed an outstanding commitment to improving and delivering high quality volunteer legal services to disadvantaged communities.” Y-Lab was pleased to work with Molly directly both as an inaugural Youth Advocacy […]
Y-Lab Celebrates First Graduates of its Youth Advocacy Fellow Program
On April 12, 2023, Y-Lab gathered to celebrate the inaugural class of the Youth Advocacy Fellows Program (Y-Lab Fellows). The first class of Y-Lab Fellows numbered 20 students, half of which are graduating next month. Y-Lab faculty, staff, and 2L Fellows, cheered on the many accomplishments of each graduate, highlighted through individualized tributes delivered by […]
The Trial Court Experience in the Child Advocacy Clinic
Diane Bernabei (JD ’24), penned a post, The Trial Court Experience in the Child Advocacy Clinic, (01/10/23), for the the latest HLS Clinical and Pro Bono Programs blog in which she reflects on her externship placement with a judge in the Boston Juvenile Court (BJC). While Diane expected to gain professional and legal experience about […]
Michael Gregory, Y-Lab Faculty Director, Takes Part In Student Well-Being Working Group Panel
Michael Gregory, Faculty Director of the Youth Advocacy & Policy Lab (Y-Lab), Education Law Clinic, and Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), took part in a panel discussion titled, “Faculty Perspectives on Well-Being.”
“Harvard Law Today” Profiles CAP Writing Program Participant Dionne Koller Fine
The University of Baltimore professor of law and director of its Center on Sports and the Law graduates this month with a Master of Laws (LLM).