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. Students are required to have taken Human Rights Advocacy (offered only in the Fall) as a pre-requisite or co-requisite. There is no ethics requirement for this course. 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. This course may not be dropped after the first class meeting.

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 2026

Course Number	Course Credits	Evaluation Method	Instructor
437.02	4-5	Group project(s) Practical exercises Class participation	Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Jayne Huckerby, Jillian Rafferty
Canvas site: https://canvas.duke.edu/courses/74862