437.01 International Human Rights Clinic

The International Human Rights Clinic provides students with an opportunity to critically engage with human rights issues, strategies, tactics, institutions, and law in both domestic and international settings. Through the weekly seminar and fieldwork, students will develop practical tools for human rights advocacy—such as fact-finding, litigation, indicators, reporting, and messaging—that integrate inter-disciplinary methods and maximize the use of new technologies. Students will also develop core competencies related to managing trauma in human rights work, as well as the ethical and accountability challenges in human rights lawyering. Types of clinic projects include those that: apply a human rights framework to domestic issues; involve human rights advocacy abroad; engage with international institutions to advance human rights; and/or address human rights in U.S. foreign policy. Students work closely with local organizations, international NGOs, and U.N. human rights experts and bodies. Some travel will likely be involved. Student project teams will also meet at least once a week with the clinic instructors. Students work on clinic projects approximately 10-12 hours a week, for a minimum of 125 hours of clinical work during the semester.  This course may not be dropped after the first class meeting.

Enrollment Pre-/Co- Requisite Information

J.D. students are required to have taken International Human Rights Advocacy (offered only in the Fall) as either a pre-requisite or co-requisite. Instructor permission is required for enrollment of LL.M. students. LL.M. students seeking to take the Clinic should contact Prof. Huckerby to determine whether International Human Rights Advocacy is either a pre-requisite or co-requisite.

Any ethics course (Law 237, Law 238, Law 239, Law 317, or Law 539)

Fall 2016

Course Number Course Credits Evaluation Method Instructor
437.01
Course Credits
Research and/or analytical paper(s), 10-15 pages
Reflective Writing
Group project(s)
Class participation
Sarah Adamczyk, Jayne Huckerby
Sakai site: https://sakai.duke.edu/portal/site/LAW.437.01.F16
Email list: LAW.437.01.F16@sakai.duke.edu
Course
Degree Requirements
Course Requirements - JD
Course Requirements - LLM
Course Areas of Practice