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The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights announced its fellows for the 2017–18 academic year.

A paper released on March 14 by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School addresses significant gaps under Liberian law regarding the oversight of large-scale agricultural concessions.

The Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium will be held March 23–24, 2017.

On March 6, 2017, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Global Heath Justice Partnership, and the Yale Health Law and Policy Society hosted a lunch panel on the constitutional right to health and what this means in practice.

On March 2, Amanda Alexander ’13 returned to Yale Law School to speak at the Schell Center’s Human Rights Workshop about what responsible and effective lawyering looks like in the age of Black Lives Matter.

On February 28, 2017, two former visiting scholars returned to Yale Law School: Lu Miaoqing and Teng Biao, each eminent Chinese lawyers with a wealth of experience navigating the challenging and often dangerous practice of human rights advocacy in China.

Resistance in the twenty-first century means “learning everything about images” according to Avram Finkelstein.

Human rights occupy a unique and vexing place in international politics; the violation of human rights is a transgression that is at once extremely severe and very difficult to prevent or enforce, according to John Sherman.

Connecticut Commissioner of Corrections Scott Semple began his talk Thursday by stating a fundamental belief: that “a system without hope is a system in chaos.”

The Liman Program and the Schell Center are part of a coalition bringing a replica solitary confinement cell to New Haven.