PILI pursues its mission through five programs:

Legal Aid Reform 
Improving state-supported legal aid systems in order to enhance access to justice for socially vulnerable, poor and disadvantaged people.

Legal Education Reform
Fostering new generations of more effective and socially oriented lawyers by making legal education more practice-oriented, with an emphasis on clinical legal education.

Promoting Pro Bono
Institutionalizing pro bono practice by law firms and individual lawyers in order to leverage private sector resources for the public good.

NGO Advocacy
Building  the advocacy capacity of civil society organizations.

Public Interest Law Fellowships
Assisting  the professional development of future public interest leaders.