The Research Bureau handles cases involving cutting-edge questions of civil rights or civil liberties. The team talks with the attorney, decides how to approach the issue, and produces the required legal product. Clients have included regional ACLU affiliates, private law firms, and individual attorneys. The Death Penalty Project functions in the same way as the Research Bureau.
Students work in teams and produce various written products for attorneys litigating capital cases.
Project staff handle both trial and appellate research. We regret that we cannot provide legal advice or referrals to the general public. There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything that we believe in. The President and Fellows of Harvard College.