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International Human Rights: Fostering a Diverse & Holistic Array of Student Opportunities
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights supports tomorrow’s leaders in human rights through broad and evolving academic programming, clinical work, and fellowships.
Robina Foundation Awards $13 Million Gift for Human Rights Work
Yale Law School has received two gifts totaling $13 million from the Robina Foundation to create a Robina Human Rights Initiative Endowment Fund and to establish a Binger Clinical Professorship in Human Rights.
New Report Examines Discrimination Faced by LGBT Youth
Ryan Thoreson ’14 is the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at Human Rights Watch where he focuses on LGBT children’s rights.
Bernstein and Robina Fellows Work on Ramifications of Development
Yale Law School students have a long history of interest and involvement in the social and human rights ramifications of large scale, internationally financed, development projects overseas. Whether working through the courts or in advocacy roles with international and local NGOs, these students have placed a premium on not only identifying and using legal mechanisms for redress in instances of potential harm but also on ensuring that the affected communities are partners in the process. Both Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellows and Robina Foundation International Human...
Clinic Hosts Panel on Criminalization of Homelessness
On November 17, Allie Frankel ’17, Hillary Vedvig ’17, and Scout Katovich ’17 hosted a panel discussion about the criminalization of homelessness in Connecticut.
Lowenstein Clinic and ASAP Give Presentation on Family Detention
Representatives of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic the President of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project hosted a presentation for the Yale community on November 3 to explain the human rights implications of family detention – the detention of women and their children – in the United States.
Report Documents the Criminalization of Homelessness
The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School has released a new report titled “Forced into Breaking the Law”: The Criminalization of Homelessness in Connecticut.
Kim Lane Scheppele Discusses Europe’s Moral Crisis
On October 28, Professor Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, visited the Schell Center’s Human Rights Workshop.
Lowenstein Clinic Launches Death Penalty Report with Justice Project Pakistan
On September 26, 2016 the Lowenstein Clinic launched the report of a joint project with the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) on Pakistan’s use of the death penalty.
David Rieff Discusses Memory and Justice at the Human Rights Workshop
David Rieff, a prominent non-fiction writer and critic, visited the Schell Center on October 13 to argue in favor of forgetting the past when discussing human rights.