Service Trips
Every year, BU Law students can participate in two substantially subsidized spring break service trips to engage in pro bono work: the "BU Law Pro Bono/Student Hurricane Network Service Trip" to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the "BU Law Pro Bono Immigration Asylum Service Trip" to Harlingen, Texas.
The "BU Law Pro Bono/Student Hurricane Network Service Trip" offers BU Law students the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to volunteer in various legal organizations across Louisiana in efforts to aid displaced residents of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In the past, we have partnered with the Student Hurricane Network (SHN), a national student organization dedicated to helping hurricane victims in the Gulf Coast region through volunteer relief work. For the upcoming year, we are creating new partnerships to continue to provide much needed legal support to New Orleans residents.
BU Law students can also participate in the "BU Law Pro Bono Immigration Asylum Trip" to Harlingen, Texas. There, students work with the South Texan Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR) - a joint project of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas and the American Immigration Lawyers Association- on asylum cases, bond hearings, intakes, special immigrant juvenile cases, naturalization and other immigration matters.