Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic offers pro bono legal services at the intersection of technology and social justice.
The Clinic — founded at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society — was the first of its kind, and continues its tradition of innovation in its areas of practice. The Clinic strives to center clients in its legal work, helping them to achieve success as they define it, mindful of (and in response to) existing law. Students who enroll and participate in the Cyberlaw Clinic prepare for practice by working on real-world client counseling, advocacy, litigation, and transactional projects.
Technology supports most human endeavors and, as a result, offers both significant benefits and real, lasting harms. Therefore, the Cyberlaw Clinic’s work, teaching activities, and client selection decisions are animated by its core values. The Clinic balances its legal service mission with a mission to teach law students, and education and pedagogy are at the heart of the Clinic’s day-to-day operations.
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Massachusetts High Court Issues Ruling in Online Racial Profiling Case
Today, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC”) issued a ruling in Commonwealth v. Dilworth (SJC-13547), holding that the Boston Police Department violated the law by refusing to turn over evidence of potential online racial profiling. The decision is welcomed by the Cyberlaw Clinic, which previously represented Berkman Klein affiliates Michael Bennett and Zahra Stardust,…
Cyberlaw Clinic Supports Public Interest Patent Law Institute w/Comment to USPTO re: Patents and Artificial Intelligence
The Cyberlaw Clinic worked with the Public Interest Patent Law Institute (“PIPLI”) to file comments (.pdf) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, expressing PIPLI’s views on patents and artificial intelligence. The comments respond to the USPTO’s guidance on “Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions,” PTO-P-2023-0043-0001, as to which the USPTO solicited comments earlier this…
Clinic Represents MACDL on Wiretapping Amicus Brief
On Friday, the Cyberlaw Clinic filed an amicus brief before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the case Commonwealth v. Thanh Du. The brief, filed on behalf of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL), supports Mr. Du in his bid to suppress a secret audiovisual recording of a conversation with an undercover police…
Clinic Publishes Update to Security Researcher’s Guide to Legal Risk
The Clinic is excited to announce the release of an update of A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research , a guide authored by Sunoo Park and Kendra Albert, and co-published by the Cyberlaw Clinic, the Technology Law and Policy Clinic at NYU School of Law, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).