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, May 07, 2019
News
Professor NeJaime Launches Coalition to Protect LGBT Parents and their Children
Anne Urowsky Professor of Law Douglas NeJaime announced the creation of the Connecticut Parentage Act Coalition on May 8, 2019.Friday, September 06, 2019
Friday, September 6, 2019
Monday, July 1, 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Event
Human Rights Workshop: Helen F. Siu, "Hong Kong: Ground Zero, and a Global Awakening"
12:10PM
Calabresi Faculty Lounge
Event
Erendira Vanegas, "The Human Rights Crisis in Nicaragua Before and After the 2018 Uprising"
12:10PM
Calabresi Faculty Lounge
Event
HRW: Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, "Social Rights in the Courts: A Comparative Perspective"
12:10PM
Calabresi Faculty Lounge
Event
Human Rights Workshop: Viviana Krsticevic, "Litigating for Social Change in the Inter-American System of Human Rights"
12:10PM
Calabresi Faculty Lounge
Event
Human Rights Workshop: Richard Ashby Wilson, "International Legal Ethnography and New Legal Realism"
12:10PM
Calabresi Faculty Lounge
Friday, August 16, 2019
In The Press
Claims: Migrant Children Molested in U.S.-Funded Foster Care
The Associated Press
Aseem Mehta ’20, a student with the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Clinic, is quoted about a settlement in a case of a migrant child held in government custody.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
In The Press
There is a Need for Fresh Thinking on Human Rights
The Economist
Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History Samuel Moyn is cited in a commentary on human rights.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
In The Press
Hong Kong’s protesters are not ‘radicals.’ They just want to be heard. — A Commentary by Hana Meihan Davis
The Washington Post
Hana Meihan Davis is a rising senior in Yale College and an undergraduate Human Rights Scholar at the Schell Center for International Human Rights.
Monday, June 17, 2019
In The Press
A New Trump Battleground: Defining Human Rights
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an opinion piece about human rights.
Friday, April 5, 2019
In The Press
Guantánamo Trials Grapple With How Much Evidence to Allow About Torture
The New York Times
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law Eugene Fidell is quoted in an article about how the military commission system is wrestling with how to handle evidence of torture inflicted upon Al Qaeda suspects.
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.
Alumni & Student Profiles
Yale is just big enough that there’s always somebody working on something new that I have never heard about or thought about or learned about. But it’s small enough that there are plenty of friendly faces in the hallway, no matter where I am.”
Richie Frohlichstein
Class of 2018