Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic

HRGJ involves students in cutting-edge work in international human rights generally and, more particularly, the rights of women and girls. Interns critique and explore human rights as a tool for social change. By representing clients and/or partnering with activists, students can engage directly in legal advocacy projects and litigation in international and U.S. forums. The work of clinic students has contributed to the International Criminal Tribunals in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, negotiations and monitoring of the International Criminal Court, the Inter-American human rights system and various UN conferences, treaty bodies and rapporteurs. Students utilize international and human rights norms in domestic litigation through HRGJ's Immigrant Domestic Workers Project, other Alien Tort Claims Act cases, and amicus curiae briefs in courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. This clinic experience sharpens skills in fact development, legal research and analysis, writing oral advocacy and strategic thinking, as well as client-centered and collaborative law-reform lawyering.