诊所的学生与真实的客户一起处理真实的病例, under the supervision of our expert faculty.
The Amicus Curiae brief provides a formal avenue for interested non-parties to offer new information and unique insights to a court. The amicus brief procedure allows the court to take advantage of expertise with respect to a matter or policy that is before the court and to consider implications of the court's ruling beyond those raised by the parties to the litigation. Amicus briefs are accepted under certain conditions by a wide variety of courts, including the US Supreme Court, federal and state appellate courts, as well as international tribunals such as the European Court of Human Rights, the International Criminal Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, among many others.
The Amicus Brief Clinic provides students and faculty an opportunity to weigh in on, and attempt to influence, 法院法律和公共政策的发展. A student team researches, writes, edits, 并向法院提交法庭之友简报供其考虑.
The Child Health and Education Clinic (CHEC) is a medical-legal partnership that brings together student attorneys and community providers to address a variety of health-harming legal needs that impact children and families in the Boston area. Students participate in every aspect of the client's case, from developing the facts and theory of the case, to case planning and client counseling, to written and oral advocacy. Some of the clinic's cases are directly connected to childhood health while others address legal barriers that negatively impact child and family well-being. Through interdisciplinary casework, close supervision, and weekly seminars students learn to engage in culturally humble client advocacy, reflecting on the structures and systems that intersect each case and developing a variety of advocacy skills while providing critical representation in an area of substantial community need.
The Child Health and Education Clinic (CHEC) is a medical-legal partnership that brings together student attorneys and community providers to address a variety of health-harming legal needs that impact children and families in the Boston area.
Students advise and represent low-income clients in civil and administrative matters related to family law and child welfare. 学生被法院认证为学生律师,将处理客户案件的所有阶段, from client interviewing through case planning, fact investigation, discovery, client counseling, negotiation, and courtroom advocacy.
Students advise and represent low-income clients in civil and administrative matters related to family law and child welfare. 学生被法院认证为学生律师,将处理客户案件的所有阶段, from client interviewing through case planning, fact investigation, discovery, client counseling, negotiation, and courtroom advocacy.
Students plan and conduct every phase of civil litigation, including:
Clinical faculty guide students, attending hearings and trials and giving feedback at every stage.
Students in the Civil Litigation: Housing Justice Clinic represent local low-income residents in cases involving family law, landlord-tenant disputes, public benefits,&驱逐,丧失抵押品赎回权,以及获得政府资助的住房.
As they engage in different modes of lawyering, students in this clinic are encouraged to think critically about the role of the lawyer, client, and community in advancing racial justice movements. Each student in the clinic will be assigned at least one litigation matter and one community or policy advocacy matter. On the litigation side, representative matters may include civil rights cases on behalf of low-wage workers, immigrants, prisoners and communities of color. On the community advocacy side, representative matters may include supporting grassroots organizations with their organizing campaigns, legislative advocacy or other research and outreach projects.
In the Civil Rights Clinic, 学生小组讨论影响低收入工人的民权问题, immigrants, prisoners, 以及马萨诸塞州的有色人种社区通过运动律师的视角参与个人客户代表以及社区和政策倡导项目.
Counseling a high-tech incubator for minority entrepreneurs, representing a restaurant workers’ advocacy organization, helping a small business navigate import law—these are just some of the opportunities available through our Community Enterprise Clinic (CEC).
The CEC puts students at the center of transactional legal matters as they assist emerging businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits with intellectual property issues, commercial leases, and 501(c)(3) exemptions.
BC Law is one of the only schools in the nation to have a formal collaboration with an established major law firm—Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP—and CEC Director Paul Tremblay wrote the textbook for transactional clinics: Introduction to Transactional Lawyering Practice.
Transactional legal matters such as intellectual property issues, commercial leases, 和组织免税将由学生在社区企业诊所代表小企业解决, entrepreneurs, 以及大波士顿地区的非营利组织.
Students will assess the client’s criminal history, institutional record, physical and mental health, and risk of re-offending. Then they will advocate with the Massachusetts Department of Correction for release and, if not successful, possibly in the Superior Court on appeal.
In the Compassionate Release and Parole Clinic, 法律专业的学生与社会工作者或社会工作专业的学生合作,将帮助为患有绝症或不可逆转的身体或认知能力丧失的州囚犯准备一份同情释放和医疗假释计划的请愿书.
Evangeline Sarda (Prosecution)
Our Criminal Justice Clinic comprises the Defenders Program, the Prosecution Program, and the Criminal Justice Clinic Class.
The Criminal Justice Clinic's integration of prosecution and defense perspectives is a unique feature of the clinical experience at BC Law and grants students access to a range of perspectives and experiences in criminal case preparation and presentation. 该诊所旨在鼓励学生的反思能力.
Students in the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic navigate the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurship law, which includes intellectual property, licensing, regulation, and corporate formation. Working under the supervision of the Clinic director, students will learn to work with organizational clients and learn to represent clients in transactions.
Students may have the opportunity to advise clients on a variety of legal issues, related to new and emerging businesses including:
Students help bring innovative ideas to life, advising social entrepreneurs, tech startups, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and other creative thinkers. 学生们处理知识产权的世界, licensing, regulation, 在本地区蓬勃发展的创新经济中组建公司.
Students gain vital practice skills in interviewing, drafting affidavits, preparing clients for interviews, researching and writing as they do this critical—and sometimes life-saving—work.
The types of cases students assist with include:
Students defend noncitizens against deportation, 倡导将他们从移民拘留中释放出来, and give "know your rights" presentations to immigration detainees. Clients are often asylum seekers, long-term residents, victims of crime, juveniles, and other marginalized populations.
Clinic focuses on cases involving complex factual investigation as well as work with scientific and forensic experts. We co-counsel with the Committee for Public Counsel Services Innocence program and with other attorneys and we also accept cases even where no other counsel is appointed and even if no DNA evidence is available to prove factual innocence.
As part of the Innocence Program, students:
Students study the problem of erroneous convictions and work to remedy and prevent these injustices. 诊所的学生和教师代表在马萨诸塞州被错误定罪的个人,因为他们没有犯下罪行,并与公众合作, private, 以及诉讼和公共政策改革的非营利合作伙伴.
The International Human Rights Practicum focuses on appellate submissions to regional and international courts and other legal organizations that address international human rights issues. For example, students have worked on submissions to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The Inter-American System for the protection of human rights (IASHR) is the regional system responsible for monitoring, promoting, and protecting human rights in the countries that are members of the Organization of American States (OAS). Currently, it is one of the strongest regional human rights protection systems in the world.
International Human Rights Practicum students advocate for the promotion of international protection of human rights to regional and international courts and other legal organizations that address international human rights issues.
Students work directly with Bureau attorneys in the representation of state agencies and officials in state and federal courts. Students assigned to the Constitutional and Administrative Law Division will work on a variety of court cases involving administrative and constitutional law, federal courts, and statutory construction. Students assigned to the Trial Division will work on a variety of cases involving employment, tort, civil rights, contracts, and eminent domain and land use law.
Students work directly with Bureau attorneys in the representation of state agencies and officials in state and federal courts.
The mission of Project Entrepreneur is to equip the entrepreneurs with the tools necessary to be successful through networking and mentorship and the completion of an important student-facilitated “entrepreneurial fundamentals” class focused on legal aspects of operations, sales and marketing, and strategy.
Project Entrepreneur is centered on using entrepreneurship to foster the successful reentry of individuals with criminal records, primarily those formerly incarcerated, back into society, offering a new beginning for them, their families, and invoking positive change in their communities.
“不列颠哥伦比亚省法律辩护律师诊所确实扩大了我对法律的理解,并给了我信心,我可以接受新的和不同的法律挑战.”