International Human Rights Clinic
The International Human Rights Clinic enables students to critically engage with cutting-edge human rights issues, strategies, tactics, institutions, and law in both domestic and international settings.
Through weekly seminars and fieldwork, students develop a range of practical tools and skills needed for human rights lawyering — such as fact-finding, litigation, reporting, and messaging — that integrate interdisciplinary methods and new technologies as well as foster core competencies related to ethics and accountability.
The International Human Rights Clinic is a core component of the Human Rights Program at Duke Law. Through an extensive curriculum, Duke Law's international and comparative law faculty equips students to deepen their knowledge and critical assessment of human rights laws, institutions, advocacy, and scholarship. In addition to the clinic, the Human Rights in Practice event series, a post-graduate fellowship in international law and human rights, Duke Law's externship program, and dedicated career counseling provide additional opportunities to further build the theoretical foundations and skills necessary for domestic and international human rights lawyering, as well as to prepare students for the increasingly global nature of legal practice more generally.
Law in Action: The Clinic Experience
Clinical Professor Jayne Huckerby, director of the International Human Rights Clinic, and Clinical Professor Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, supervising attorney for the clinic, talk about the clinic's work, how students get involved, skills learned, and their favorite part about leading the clinic.
The clinic is a core component of the Human Rights Program at Duke Law, equipping students to deepen their knowledge and critical assessment of human rights laws, institutions, advocacy, and scholarship.
Clinic Faculty
Aya Fujimura-Fanselow
Clinical Professor of Law
Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic919-613-7239
