How We Are Involved
About Human Rights Law
The study of human rights law at the Yale Law School is focused around the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. It coordinates a diverse program of human rights activities that serve students and scholars at Yale and contribute to the development of the human rights community locally and internationally.
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Clinics
The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic is a Law School course that gives students firsthand experience in human rights advocacy. The clinic undertakes a wide variety of projects each term on behalf of human rights organizations and individual victims of human rights abuse.
Fellowships
A number of fellowships allow Law Students to dedicate their time to advocacy, human rights work and scholarship.
Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowships
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
News
Lowenstein Clinic Defends Victims of Human Rights Abuses in War on Terror
The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School is representing three men who have endured an extended period of arbitrary detention in Afghanistan.
Thursday, March 07, 2019
Monday, February 11, 2019
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Monday, March 4, 2019
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Event
Human Rights Workshop: Jeffrey S. Kahn '10, " From Nixon's Guantánamo to Trump's Asylum Ban: A Brief History of US Border Externalization"
12:10PM
Calabresi Faculty Lounge
CANCELLED
Event
Panel: "Engaging the Oppressor: How Activists Approach the Dominant Group"
4:10PM
SLB Room 129
Event
Book Talk: Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Prospects for Common Ground
6:10PM
SLB Room 122
Event
Alex Whiting '90, "The International Criminal Court in a Fracturing World"
6:10PM
SLB Room 128
Monday, February 11, 2019
In The Press
What happened to prisoners at Bagram, ‘Afghanistan’s Guantanamo’?
Al Jazeera
The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School’s work on behalf of Said Jumalyddin is discussed in Al Jazeera.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
In The Press
Loitering Laws Hit Connecticut’s Most Vulnerable Residents
WNPR / Where We Live
Allison Frankel ’17 discussed loitering ordinances and their effect on the homeless on WNPR’s Where We Live. Frankel coauthored a report for the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, titled “‘Forced into Breaking the Law: The Criminalization of Homelessness in Connecticut.’”
Monday, December 10, 2018
In The Press
New mothers and babies often detained in Slovak hospitals
The Associated Press
Mindy Roseman, Director of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, is quoted in an Associated Press story Roma women who are being detained against their will in Slovak hospitals.
Monday, December 10, 2018
In The Press
At 70, is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights doing its job?
Jefferson Public Radio
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97 is quoted in a Jefferson Public Radio story about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
In The Press
The Great Unravelling: Human Rights
BBC World Service/The Compass
Professor of Law Samuel Moyn was one of several law professors interviewed by the BBC about the state of human rights.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
In The Press
Immigrant Class May Proceed With Mandatory Detention Suit
Law360
William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Michael Wishnie ’93 and Clinical Associate Professor of Law Marisol Orihuela ’08 are mentioned in an article about the latest updates in Reid v. Donavan.
Alumni & Student Profiles
I say to you, my classmates, we have much to do. Yale gave us the tools to do it with. We owe it to the rest of the country, because of our success, to share what we know and what we can give to the future…”
President Bill Clinton
Class of 1973