Tag: Human Rights Clinic

  • The Clinic is participating with a network of universities throughout the Americas studying the implementation of the Inter-American Commission’s decisions.  The Clinic students conducted an analysis to determine how decisions of the Inter-American Commission are implemented in the United States. A preliminary report was presented at a conference in Bogota, Colombia.
  • As an exchange student, working with the Clinic made my year in Texas truly unique. The Clinic was a fascinating and highly rewarding insight into the world of legal human rights work and professional legal work generally.
  • The Human Rights Clinic provides a great opportunity to be exposed to different types of projects that attorneys are involved with in the actual practice of public international law. If you are considering a career in human rights law, there is no other law school class that will give you this type of exposure. Ariel’s […]
  • The clinic is an elaborate combination of project work and interactive classroom sessions. I was thrown in at the deep end of my projects from the very start, teaching me both to quickly take responsibility for them and to rapidly ensure that I was on top of things. In addition to the fast-paced project work, […]
  • In cooperation with the Due Process of Law Foundation, the Clinic produced several policy papers and legal reviews on how to establish state responsibility for the actions of transnational corporations operating abroad.
  • The Human Rights Clinic submitted an amicus brief in the case of Teodoro Cabrera García and Rodolfo Montiel Flores vs. the United Mexican States.  Cabrera García and Montiel Flores were environmental defenders who were detained by the Mexican military.  The brief argued that their rights under the American Convention on Human Rights had been violated […]
  • The Human Rights Clinic conducted extensive research through interviews with human rights workers and produced a report aimed at strengthening the Rapporteurship on the Rights of the Child (RRC), part of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, by capitalizing on its existing core competencies to augment its position as an advocate for children’s rights in […]