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 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…

Please join us for a forum that brings together community organizers, attorneys, and academics to discuss the international dimension of racialized policing, violence and structural injustice. What elements of these problems are transnational? Is there a role for transnational solidarity in fighting oppression? Can international human rights bodies provide vehicles of resistance? What are the possibilities and limitations of law…

While once the subject of human rights rarely applied to corporations, the business sector has become increasingly more concerned with how its daily operations might give rise to liability related to human rights abuses. This panel will provide practitioners with useful knowledge regarding the evolving international legal and policy framework that may impact how they work with corporations of all…

Please join Harvard Human Rights Journal and HLS Advocates for Human Rights for a symposium on international criminal courts and tribunals. Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, will give the keynote address, entitled “Where Has International Criminal Law Taken Us and Where Can it Go?”   The first panel, “The Laws of War: Enforcement in Human Rights versus International…

What are the implications of post conflict justice for the full enjoyment of human rights in Africa, particularly for the victims of gross human rights violations? How effective is post conflict justice in Africa to redress injustice and provide remedies to victims? How involved are the African governments to facilitate such justice for victims? Are there any legal and/or socio-political…

Come bid on items to support Summer Public Interest Funding (SPIF) at the law school, which provides opportunities for students to launch their careers working in the public interest.  Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Susan Farbstein will serve as auctioneers and send winning bidders home with fantastic prizes, ranging from tickets to live performances and sporting events, to high teas and…

What are the opportunities to become a clinical law professor? What does being a clinical law professor involve? What skills make someone well suited to be a clinical law professor? What type of profile and experience should students develop if they decide to go for a clinical law teaching career? Join us for a discussion with Tyler Giannini, Director of…

As Myanmar approaches its second election later this year, join us for a discussion about accountability and its place in the country’s reform efforts. Panelists Roger Normand, of Justice Trust, and Matt Smith, of Fortify Rights, will join two advocates from Myanmar:   U Teikkha Nyana, a Buddhist monk who was severely injured two years ago when riot police used…