Events

Join us for pizza and an overview of the Human Rights Program and how you can get involved! We’ll give you information on our International Human Rights Clinic; summer funding for human rights internships; post-graduate fellowships; events and conferences; and the larger human rights community at Harvard Law School.  Then it’s your turn: mix and mingle with instructors from the Clinic,…

Join Harvard Law School Negotiators for a lunch talk on negotiating disarmament treaties with Bonnie Docherty, Lecturer on Law and Senior Clinical Instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic. Docherty specializes in disarmament and international humanitarian law, particularly as they relate to civilian protection during armed conflict. She has worked on the negotiation and implementation of multiple disarmament treaties, including…

Please join HLS Advocates for Human Rights for a panel discussion of a recent independent investigation that found collusion between the American Psychological Association (APA) and the U.S. government in relation to interrogation policies that enabled the torture of Muslims by American officials.  Panelists Deborah Popowski, Clinical Instructor with the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, and David…

When is a liberal state justified in restricting immigration and access to citizenship in order to protect its constitutional identity? The changing patterns of global migration have initiated a new form of “majority nationalism” in the West.  Please join us for a talk with Prof. Liav Orgad, Fellow in Residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, who will discuss…

Please join us for a conversation with Chi Adanna Mgbako, author of To Live Freely in This World: Sex Worker Activism in Africa and Clinical Professor of Law in the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School, and Kholi Buthelezi, long-time South African sex worker activist and National Coordinator of Sisonke. Based on original fieldwork in…

As the humanitarian crisis in Syria deepens, this panel will explore the role of photography in documenting and raising international awareness about torture, mass killings, and other atrocities committed by the Assad regime. An exhibit of 30 images taken by a former Syrian military police photographer, code named “Caesar” and tasked with photographing corpses of victims who died inside facilities…

Please join us for a screening of This Kind of Love, a documentary that tracks the journey of Aung Myo Min, the first openly gay activist in Burma’s democracy movement, from his role in the 1988 student uprising to his time in the student army in the jungle camps to his emergence as a leading human rights defender. The story follows Myo as…

Join us for pizza and an overview of the Human Rights Program and how you can get involved! We’ll give you information on our International Human Rights Clinic; summer funding for human rights internships; post-graduate fellowships; events and conferences; and the larger human rights community at Harvard Law School. Then it’s your turn: mix and mingle with instructors from the Clinic,…

Join Suffolk University Law School for a discussion about the live issues in Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation, including whether torturers and other human rights abusers can use U.S. soil to shield themselves from accountability. Tyler Giannini and Ariel Nelson from the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School will examine current trends in the courts in the wake…