This 2 credit seminar is required for students enrolled in Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic.
THROUGH REAL-WORLD HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY EXPERIENCES, the Walter Leitner Human Rights Clinic aims to train a new generation of human rights lawyers and contribute to inspiring, results-oriented, practical human rights work throughout the world.
The clinic partners with non-governmental organizations and foreign law schools on human rights projects ranging from legislative reform, legal and policy analysis, fact-finding and report writing, human rights training and capacity-building, and public interest litigation. Fieldwork abroad is a component of a limited number of projects each semester.
To learn more about the Clinic’s past projects, please visit the Clinic’s Previous Projects page.