Clinics & SPOs
International Human Rights Clinic
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During the Fall 2023 semester, five clinic teams traveled to New York for project work and advocacy. They hosted events, met with UN member states,…
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Clinic Partner Puts World’s Seventh-Largest Supermarket Chain on Notice for Human Rights Abuse
January 11, 2024
French duty of vigilance law means Carrefour can be held accountable for slavery, human trafficking, torture in its tuna supply chain, write Nikki Santos, JD’24,…
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Scholars reflect on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75 years after UN adoption
January 2, 2024
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.
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A year ago this past week, on November 18, 2022, Syrian survivor and refugee Nujeen Mustafa spoke to delegates at the signing ceremony of the …
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“Hot Labor Summer” and the State of International Labor Rights
November 1, 2023
On this episode of the HKS Carr Center’s Justice Matters, clinical instructor Aminta Ossom interviews Jeff Vogt, Director of the Rule of Law Program at the…
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Settlement Reached in Historic Human Rights Lawsuit
October 3, 2023
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.
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Access to water by low-income residents of Delhi in peril without government action, says Harvard report
September 21, 2023
Climate change likely to make water more difficult to obtain for poor residents, according to Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic…
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Providing cluster munitions has ‘changed the nature of U.S. involvement’ in Ukraine, says Harvard Law expert
August 7, 2023
Bonnie Docherty, scholar on humanitarian disarmament, says the weapons endanger civilians now and in the future.
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When she was in the seventh grade, Samantha Gogol Lint, J.D. ’20, took a class that changed her life. An elective in constitutional law set…
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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.
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The legacy of ’23
May 17, 2023
As the Class of 2023 prepares to cross the commencement stage, we asked a few graduating students to share their favorite Harvard Law memories.
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A clinic fact-finding mission on the Thai-Burma border changed the course of Jason Gelbort’s career.
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Holding the United Nations accountable
February 7, 2023
A team of Harvard Law School students seeks justice for Roma exposed to lead poisoning under the U.N.’s watch.
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Apsara Iyer ’24 elected president of the Harvard Law Review
January 30, 2023
The Harvard Law Review has elected Apsara Iyer ’24 as its 137th president. Apsara succeeds Priscila Coronado ’23.
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Clinics in Action
July 15, 2022
For one day in the 2019–2020 academic year, Harvard Law Today followed just a handful of Harvard Law's 47 legal clinics to see their work — and their efforts to advance justice — in action.
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Brianna Banks named winner of Stuntz Memorial Award
May 20, 2022
This year, Brianna Banks was named the 2022 winner of the William J. Stuntz Memorial Award for Justice, Human Dignity, and Compassion, which recognizes a graduating student who has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to the principles of justice, human dignity, and compassion while at Harvard Law School.
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She is celebrated for her outstanding contributions to the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, in both the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC) and the Harvard Law Immigration Project (HIP).
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Anoush Baghdassarian ’22 is the recipient of the 2022 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Award.