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Anne Healy, LIDS

published January 12, 2011

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LIDS members take part in pro bono work and research for many partner organizations. The opportunities range from work with microfinance groups like KIVA to working with foreign government justice systems. The students who are part of LIDS work in teams. They provide legal analysis and assistance at the discretion of the firm for which they are working. They aim to provide useful work to the partner organization and also to gain wisdom and experiences for the students. LIDS is a good opportunity for students to see their future work in action and to realize that they can put their law degree to work in the field of international development.

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The Liberian Ministry had approached LIDS for assistance in evaluating their statutory framework for probation and whether they could successfully move forward with their plan to put in place a new system. Healy was part of the team of six who created the report of proposals with recommendations for the Ministry of Justice. Healy says, ''In Liberia, the justice sector is not tremendously functional. There is a low level of capacity in all respects-in the courts, in law enforcement, in all formal aspects of institutions.''

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In the report, the members of LIDS found that the future implementation of the plan the Liberian government had come up with could present challenges. The compared the situation in Liberia with comparable countries such as Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. Healy says, ''Legal frameworks have had a lot of work done on them in the past 20 years, but that does not mean that the system is functional in practice, at all.'' A statutory framework, they found, would not be capable alone of ensuring legal stability.

''Given how multidisciplinary law and development are inherently, we have really tried to mainstream multidisciplinary work and collaboration into our project work,'' says Healy. The projects of LIDS have involved Harvard Law Students as well as students from other schools. Healy is also pursuing a joint degree at the Harvard Kennedy School with plans to cross register at Harvard Business School with a focus in social enterprise. LIDS, she says, encouraged the importance of an interdisciplinary approach at education.

As an executive member of the LIDS board, Healy has big plans for the program. In the future she and the rest of the executive board would like to see more partnering with law firms for funding in order to provide more projects to students in order to gain hands-on experience.

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published January 12, 2011

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