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 weekly seminars and fieldwork, students will develop practical tools for human rights lawyering—such as fact-finding, litigation, reporting, and messaging—that integrate inter-disciplinary methods and new technologies, as well as foster core competencies related to ethics and accountability. Student project teams will meet at least once a week with the clinic instructors. Students work on clinic projects for a minimum of either 100 or 125 hours of clinical work during the semester. 

Enrollment Policy 

Students are required to attend the clinic intensive training session (check the Academic Calendar for the date). Students may not drop the clinic after the first meeting. 

International LLM students who wish to enroll in a clinic must seek the permission of the clinic’s faculty director before the enrollment period. Permission is required to enroll but does not constitute entry into the clinic.

Enrollment Pre-/Co- Requisite Information

Students are required to have taken Human Rights Advocacy (offered only in the Fall) as either a pre-requisite or co-requisite.

Fall 2026

Course Number	Course Credits	Evaluation Method	Instructor
437.01	4-5	Group project(s) Practical exercises Class participation	Aya Fujimura-Fanselow
Canvas site: https://canvas.duke.edu/courses/86517