International Human Rights Clinic

Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) remains one of the least documented and prosecuted atrocity crimes, in both international and non-international armed conflicts. Drawing on Ukraine as…

This panel brings together practitioners and experts involved in all levels of war crime investigation and prosecution, from evidence collection and legal analysis, to public…

Join us for an informal reception to celebrate two decades of the International Human Rights Clinic’s (IHRC) dedication to fostering the next generation of human…

Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring recent Clinic alumni who are at the forefront of human rights practice. Panelists will share their personal…

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…

Kamille Bernard ’24 and Lea Kayali ’24 are the recipients of the 2024 Kristin P. Muniz Memorial Award, bestowed in memory of the beloved Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) senior clinical instructor to honor students who exemplify her commitment to justice and superb client-centered representation.

While she was in the process of being officially admitted to the bar in her native Belgium, Salomé Van Bunnen LL.M. ’24 began to think about the direction she wanted to take in her legal career.

This year, 11 upper-level J.D. students and LL.M. candidates were selected as Cravath International Fellows. Here are four of their stories.

Clinical Instructor Aminta Ossom ’09 and Taryn Shanes ’25 traveled to Geneva to present recommendations from the International Human Rights Clinic’s recent report, “When the Water Runs Dry: Human Rights, Climate Change and Deepening Water Inequality in Delhi, India,” at the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights.

As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — adopted by the UN in the wake of World War II — turns 75, Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy marks the anniversary with a publication weighing the history and future of the human rights movement.

Susan Farbstein ‘04 explains the importance of the lawsuit that HLS' International Human Rights Clinic and its students filed in 2007 against the former president of Bolivia seeking justice on behalf of Bolivian citizens whose families were killed by the military in 2003.

Bonnie Docherty, scholar on humanitarian disarmament, says the weapons endanger civilians now and in the future.

Poluru, a joint J.D./M.B.A. student from Chicago, Ill., has been awarded the 2023 Righeimer Prize, an honor that celebrates a graduating student in recognition of exceptional citizenship within Harvard Law School community.

As the Class of 2023 prepares to cross the commencement stage, we asked a few graduating students to share their favorite Harvard Law memories.

A clinic fact-finding mission on the Thai-Burma border changed the course of Jason Gelbort’s career.

A team of Harvard Law School students seeks justice for Roma exposed to lead poisoning under the U.N.’s watch.

The Harvard Law Review has elected Apsara Iyer ’24 as its 137th president. Apsara succeeds Priscila Coronado ’23.