The innovative Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic focuses on critical human rights issues, including migrants' rights, application of the death penalty to juveniles, and trafficking of women.  Students also work on briefs detailing international law standards to U.S. courts and represent individual clients before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

The Immigration and Asylum Externship Program provides students with the opportunity to develop their immigration lawyering skills and exposes them to the realities of immigration practice.  Participants work either off campus at a firm or non-profit, or on campus with the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project.
 

Students enrolled in the Immigration Clinic will provide legal representation to clients in immigration proceedings. Students will get involved at various stages of these proceedings, which may include proceedings before Immigration Officers, Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals or Circuit Courts of Appeals. 
 

This student organization is appointed by the elected student government of the law school. They focus on researching immigration law.

The JRAP represents youth (with a focus on girls) who are in the delinquency system, comprehensively across systems, and until they reach majority.  JRAP representation uses the legal system to access social and community services and hold systems accountable, reducing the use of incarceration and supporting girls in their communities.  In addition to individual representation, the JRAP is involved in ongoing research and policy advocacy aimed at reducing incarceration and supporting youth in their communities

Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau (BCLAB) is a community legal services office founded by Boston College law students in 1968 and funded by Boston College Law School and through grants from Greater Boston Legal Services and Springwell Corporation.

We advise and represent clients with a variety of legal problems, including primarily domestic violence prevention, family law, landlord-tenant disputes, Social Security disability appeals. Pursuant to the Massachusetts student practice rule (SJC 3:03), students supervised by a faculty of supervising attorneys and a clinical social worker are certified to represent clients in every aspect of litigation, including appearing in court and at federal and state administrative hearings.
 

The Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) is a student organization dedicated to providing public interest law opportunities to students at Boston College Law School. These opportunities including funding student projects, sponsoring speakers throughout the year, and providing students with PILF Summer Stipends so that they can take unpaid positions at legal aid, non-profit and other public interest law organizations after their first and second year's of law.
 

The Civil Law Clinic offers free legal assistance on civil matters to low-income residents of Douglas County, Nebraska. The clinic operates as a small law firm, staffed by law students under the supervision of the Clinic Director, Professor Catherine Mahern, Connie Kearney Chair in Clinical Legal Education. The Clinic's bilingual, Spanish-speaking attorney takes appointments for Spanish-speaking clients at Latina Resource Center and Juan Diego Center in South Omaha. Her focus is primarily civil law and some immigration issues. This externship will expose the student to substantive areas of immigration law and regulations regarding removal, asylum, waivers, citizenship and family-based petitions, and how those are applied in actual cases.