International Human Rights Clinic
The Clinic is the practice arm of the Human Rights Program. It works to protect the human rights of clients and communities around the world through documentation; legal and strategic analysis; litigation; treaty negotiations; and advocacy initiatives. Through supervised practice, students learn the responsibilities and skills of human rights lawyering.
Academic Program
The Academic Program is the center for scholarship and research at the Human Rights Program. It inspires and offers guidance to international human rights learning at the Law School. Founded by Professor Emeritus Henry Steiner in 1984, the Program helps students, advocates, and scholars to deepen their knowledge of human rights, and to advance discussions and critical reflection on human rights.
Clinic
The International Human Rights Clinic is the practice arm of the Human Rights Program.
Learn more about the Clinic >Academic
The Academic Program is the center for scholarship at the Human Rights Program.
Learn more about the Academic Program >Areas of Focus
Criminal Justice and Health
International human rights law recognizes the right of everyone—including incarcerated people—to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.…
Learn more about criminal justice and health >Armed Conflict & Civilian Protection
The international community has increasingly sought to prevent civilian casualties during armed conflict and to mitigate the harm suffered afterward. …
Learn more about armed conflict and civilian protection >Myanmar
Even as the political arena in Myanmar opens up, violent abuses continue in conflict zones, and questions persist about whether the rule of law will take hold and what will be done about past abuses.…
Learn more about Myanmar >Business & Human Rights
The relationship between business and human rights is of central importance in our increasingly globalized economy. Still, debates rage about the responsibility.…
Learn more about business and human rights >Accountability Litigation
Survivors of grave human rights violations have used the Alien Tort Statute to seek justice in U.S. courts when redress might otherwise be unavailable in their home countries.…
Learn more about accountability litigation >UN Treaty Bodies
The number of UN treaty bodies has increased over time. So has their importance, as the end of the Cold War enabled them to adopt more effective working methods for evaluating and declaring human rights violations.…
Learn more about UN treaty bodies >Human Rights and the Environment
Since the early 1990s, the international community has increasingly accepted the inextricable link between human rights and the environment. …
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