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

Required Class Component: Change Climate and Human Rights: Legal Innovations in Action (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 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 11, 2026.

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 entrepreneurial human rights practitioners as they develop and incubate ideas to pursue innovative strategic approaches that advance human rights. The Clinic operates as a lab, where students collaborate with partners to challenge systemic problems with systemic solutions while simultaneously deploying community-centric approaches to change. In particular, the Clinic focuses on corporate accountability and climate justice, as well as frontier litigation and systems litigation. 

Within these core focus areas, students can expect to build foundational lawyering skills as well as have the opportunity to intentionally practice creative lawyering and systems thinking as they help translate partners’ ideas for change into reality. Students in the Clinic can anticipate working in highly dynamic and collaborative teams, developing skills related to legal research and writing, investigations, case-building, strategic litigation, and idea entrepreneurship, among others. 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. The Clinic also supports student entrepreneurs who want to develop their own ideas that relates to human rights.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, the Clinic will continue to support frontier litigation related to corporate accountability and climate justice. The Clinic will also assist with field building efforts at the intersection of climate change and human rights, which includes projects that link climate change and business and human rights. The Clinic will also continue its work experimenting with how to center communities in the field of business and human rights.