Student Drafts Right to Counsel Statute
By Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.) Among the various approaches to expanding legal services to the poor, the concept of “Civil Gideon” has achieved increasing visibility. The roots of the concept are in...
View ArticleSubstantial Increase in Clinic Contribution to Massachusetts’ Judges
By Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.) Students interning with Massachusetts trial judges through the Judicial Process in Community Courts Clinic far surpassed their colleagues from past years in the hours...
View ArticleJudge Nakada, LL.M ’14, as eye witness
Judge Kenji Nakada, LL.M. ’14, describes the Judicial Process in Community Courts Clinic in a short phrase; “one eye-witness is better than many hearsays,” he said. Prior to his enrollment in Harvard...
View ArticleThree Lessons about ADR
Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.) Via JAMS ADR Blog By Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.) Having recently completed a manual about the ADR process, there are three features of mediation that jump out at me as...
View ArticleTaking Prisoners’ Rights to Court
Tucker DeVoe, J.D. ’15 By Tucker DeVoe, J.D. ’15 This March, I argued in front of the Honorable Raffi Nerses Yessayan of the Massachusetts Superior Court on behalf of my client. He is an inmate in a...
View ArticleHon. John C. Cratsley visits his former students in Korea
Back Row (left to right) Tai Heon Ha, LL.M. ’12; Kim Chang Mo LL.M. ’11; Kim Min Soo, LL.M. ’14; Sung Jun Park, LL.M. ’11; and Sang-Jin Oh, LL.M. ’09, and in front row (left to right), Sung Chul Min...
View ArticleClinic students contribute almost 800 hours of legal research to...
By Hon. John C. Cratsley This spring semester, students in the Judicial Process in Community Courts Clinic and class provided almost 800 hours of volunteer legal research and writing time for their...
View ArticleStudent’s clinic paper becomes pending legislation
By Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.) Andrew Spore J.D. ’15, an alum of the Judicial Process in Community Courts Clinic and class, initially wrote his final paper on a proposal that certain vulnerable...
View ArticleReuniting with former students in Japan
By Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.) Each year the Judicial Process in Community Courts Clinic and class includes judges from Japan and Korea who are enrolled in the LL.M. program providing them the...
View ArticleClinic students present oral argument in federal district court
This fall semester, Emily Seelenfreund, J.D. ’17 and Myra Siddiqui, J.D. ’17, students in the Disability Litigation and Advocacy Clinic coordinated by Senior Clinical Instructor, Julie McCormack,...
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