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
Archives of the Yale Human Rights and Development Journal (YHRDLJ)
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, November 29, 2022
News
Lowenstein Clinic and Green Advocates File Human Rights Complaint with U.N. Against Liberia
Human rights organization Green Advocates International, in collaboration with the Lowenstein Clinic, is calling on U.N. officials to investigate the detention of environmental and Indigenous human rights defenders in Liberia.
Tuesday, November 01, 2022
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
The symposium Incarceration and Imagination explored writing inside and outside of prison walls.
Friday, October 7, 2022
Lourdes Rivera ’90 of the Center for Reproductive Rights led the Human Rights Workshop, “Beyond Dobbs: Lessons from Abroad for the Fight for Reproductive Rights in the U.S.”
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021
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Friday, November 18, 2022
In The Press
Why Slavery as a Punishment for Crime Was Just on the Ballot in Some States
PBS News Hour
Clinical Professor of Law Claudia Flores comments on the use of prison labor in the U.S. in light of state ballot measures that would outlaw slavery as a legal punishment for crime.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
In The Press
Why a Question About Slavery Is Now on the Ballot in 5 States
The New York Times
Clinical Professor of Law Claudia Flores comments on ballot measures in five states that would ban slavery or involuntary servitude as punishment.
Friday, September 30, 2022
In The Press
California Governor Vetoes Limits on Solitary Confinement
Al Jazeera
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments on the decline in the use of solitary confinement in prisons nationally. The story also cites a report co-authored by the Liman Center on the number of people in solitary confinement in the United States.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
In The Press
The Case for Creating an International Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine — A Commentary by Oona A. Hathaway
Just Security
Oona A. Hathaway ’97 is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
In The Press
Nearly 50,000 People Held in Solitary Confinement in U.S., Report Says
The Guardian
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments on the declining use solitary confinement in a news story on a report by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Monday, August 8, 2022
In The Press
The Humanitarian Paradox: When Do We Fight, Why Do We Fight?
Responsible Statecraft
Professor of Law Aslı Ü. Bâli ’99 discusses the problems with U.S. intervention and why restraint is needed to preserve America’s credibility in human rights.
Alumni & Student Profiles
At heart, Yale Law School is about a distinctive culture of intellectual curiosity about the law. We think good ideas matter. Our faculty and, most of all, our students live this idea every day.”
John Fabian Witt
Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law; Class of 1999