HLS Advocates for Human Rights

Join the HLS Advocates for Human Rights, the WLA Clerkship Committee, and SALSA for a lunch talk with Justice Indu Malhotra, former justice of the…

Raul Pangalangan, LL.M ’86, S.J.D. ’90
Professor and Former Law Dean, University of the Philippines
Former Judge at the International Criminal Court (2015-2021)…

Since the onset of the Syrian Revolution in 2011 and throughout the ensuing civil war, the Assad regime has violently suppressed dissent, committing numerous international…

Stateless persons are those who do not have citizenship or nationality of any country in the world. Statelessness can occur as a result of a number…

Get advice from current 2Ls and 3Ls on how to find, secure, and make the most of a human rights internship! Lunch will be provided!…

Join Advocates for Human Rights for a discussion about the legal implications and the humanitarian crisis that resulted from the 2023 mass exodus of Armenians…

Join us for an info session and learn how you can get involved with Advocates! HLS Advocates is a student practice organization that gives students…

Join us for pizza and an overview of: The International Human Rights Clinic The Human Rights Program HLS Advocates for Human Rights The Harvard Human…

Journalist Géraldine Schwarz shares the story of her grandparents who ‘followed the current’ in Nazi Germany.

Anoush Baghdassarian ’22 is the recipient of the 2022 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Award.

Passionate human rights advocates Anoush Baghdassarian ’22 and Sondra Anton ’22 find friendship and solidarity at HLS.

Each year, half of HLS’ first-year J.D. students and around a quarter of LL.M. students participate in at least one of HLS' 11 Student Practice Organizations, with some involved in multiple organizations at once.