The Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights was established at Yale Law School in 1989 to honor Orville Schell, a distinguished New York City lawyer and partner at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, who was vice chairman of Helsinki Watch and chairman of Americas Watch from its founding in 1981 until his death in 1987.
The Schell Center is dedicated to the education and training of law students in the foundational principles of human rights in both international and domestic law. It works to support rigorous scholarship, open and critical discourse, and defense of the rule of law. The Center fosters an engaged intellectual community dedicated to the power of ideas and the practice of law in shaping a more just and humane world.
Contact
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Yale Law School
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520-8215
203-432-7480
schell.law@yale.edu