Study

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. Students are required to have taken Human Rights Advocacy (offered only in the Fall) as a pre-requisite. There is no ethics requirement for this course. 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 100 hours of clinical work during the semester.  This course may not be dropped after the first class meeting. For all LL.M students, enrollment requires instructor permission and students should contact Prof. Huckerby and Prof. Fujimura-Fanselow to discuss eligibility requirements.

Enrollment Pre-/Co- Requisite Information

J.D. students are required to have taken Human Rights Advocacy (offered only in the Fall) as either a pre-requisite or co-requisite. LL.M. students are eligible for enrollment in the Clinic in the Spring semester with instructor permission and should contact Prof. Huckerby to discuss eligibility requirements.

Spring 2022

Course Number	Course Credits	Evaluation Method	Instructor
437.02	Course Credits 4-5	Group project(s) Practical exercises Class participation	Aya Fujimura-Fanselow
Sakai site: https://sakai.duke.edu/portal/site/LAW-437-02-Sp22
Email list: LAW-437-02-Sp22@sakai.duke.edu