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Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement.

Required Class Component: Business and Human Rights (2 spring classroom credits). Once you have enrolled in this clinic, the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs will enroll you in the required clinical course component.

Additional Co-/Pre-Requisites: Students who have completed Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts, Business and Human Rights, or Climate Change and Human Rights: Legal Innovations and Social Entrepreneurs in Action previously have satisfied the clinical course requirement and will not need to enroll in another seminar to participate in the clinic.

Add/Drop Deadline: December 12, 2025.

LLM Students: LLM students may enroll in this clinic through Helios.

Placement Site: HLS.

The Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic offers students the opportunity to work with human rights entrepreneurs and innovators as they translate their ideas for change into reality. The Clinic operates as a lab to support partners as they develop and incubate ideas to pursue innovative strategic approaches that advance human rights. In particular, the Clinic focuses on climate justice and corporate accountability as well as community-centric approaches to business and human rights. The Clinic also supports student entrepreneurs whose work relates to human rights.

For the 2025-2026 academic year, the Clinic will be supporting frontier litigation related to corporate accountability and climate justice, assisting with field building efforts and the development and incubation of new legal theories and cases. In addition to its litigation-focused projects, the Clinic will also be working with a coalition experimenting with how to make the field of business and human rights more community-centric over the coming years. Communities are still too often missing from the table where key decisions are made, and the Clinic supports the coalition’s efforts to inform community engagement, business operations, and local, national, regional, and international business and human rights frameworks.

Students in the Clinic can anticipate working in highly dynamic and collaborative teams, developing creative lawyering skills related to legal research and writing, investigations, case-building, strategic litigation, and idea entrepreneurship, among others. In particular, the Clinic prioritizes entrepreneurial thinking around emerging and novel issues of human rights law, asking students to deploy systems thinking to map harms and identify leverage points for change within complex ecosystems of actors. Additionally, students may have the opportunity to develop leadership skills, including by spearheading projects and their design over one or more semesters working with the Clinic.