Human Rights Workshop

The Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights coordinates a diverse program of human rights activities, including the Human Rights Workshop, a weekly gathering of students, scholars, and practitioners in the field of human rights.

Workshops meet at 12:10 p.m. in SLB 128. RSVP is required through the YLS Calendar.

For more information and background readings, please email schell.law@yale.edu.

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Fall 2026 Schedule

Date	Speaker & Topic
September 3	Chirag Badlani Executive Director of Alphawood Foundation Institutional Will: Arts Administration as a Human Rights Practice
September 10	Kristine Beckerle ('15 J.D.) Deputy Regional Director and Beirut Office Director at Amnesty International Human Rights in Crisis: The Middle East as Bellwether
September 24	Joy Gordon Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. Professor of Social Ethics at Loyola University Chicago Economic Sanctions and Human Rights: Overcompliance and the Inadequacy of Humanitarian Exemptions
October 1	Paul Hoffman Director of Defending Democracy Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law The Past and Future of International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts
October 8	Michelle Miller Director of Innovation for the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School, Co-Founder of Coworker Women and AI: How Technology is Reshaping Community, Family and Work Life
October 15	Jocelyn Simonson Herman Badillo ’54 Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School The Movement Necessity Defense
October 22	Sabrina Ragone Professor of Law at the University of Bologna The Right to Care: Comparative Pathways to a New Human Right
October 29	Xavier T. de Janon Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild, Attorney at People's Law Collective The Antifa Terror Scare: Prairieland Cases Contextualized
November 5	Violeta Canaves ('15 LL.M., '24 J.S.D.) Senior Advocacy Advisor at International Planned Parenthood Foundation Is a Global Reproductive Justice Movement Still Possible? Reflections on Global Inequalities and Human Rights Advocacy
November 12	A.D. Sean Lewis Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal Defense Lawyering Against the Cisgender State
November 19	Claudia Fuentes Julio Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at the United Nations Human Rights at a Crossroads: Navigating Pushback and Progress