The Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic (NDLS GHRC) is the experiential learning unit of the Notre Dame Law School Human Rights Program that is open to all Notre Dame Law School students (Juris Doctor, LLM, and JSD). The NDLS GHRC builds on the Human Rights Program’s half-century track record of experience in the formation of human rights lawyers from all over the world, while drawing from our established pedagogy in Natural Law, Jurisprudence and International Human Rights Law.
The GHRC engages in three core functions essential to the professional formation of our students - representation, education, and advocacy - in collaboration with our network of alumni and partner organizations around the world. The NDLS GHRC provides Notre Dame Law students with: real-world lawyering experiences in representing individuals, organizations and groups combating human rights violations worldwide; human rights training and education with national courts and judiciaries, international organizations, and HR LLM alumni partners; and the opportunity to assist with advocacy for legislative implementation of human rights and human rights driven-legal reform in States throughout the world.
Watch Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Director Diane Desierto deliver arguments at the Public Hearing of the Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency and Human Rights Day in Barbados here:
Watch the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States Side Event below:
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View more Media MentionsHaving Coffee With . . . Diane Desierto: Using the law to pursue civil rights goals
July 01, 2024
Diane Desierto spends a lot of time thinking about dictators and autocratic regimes. Her life’s work focuses on fighting the global spread of authoritarianism.
“The thing we should be concerned about is how ‘human rights’ has been co-opted by the dictators and the authoritarians and distorted,” says Desierto, a professor of law and global affairs, faculty director of the Notre Dame Law School’s master’s degree program in international human rights law and director of its new Global Human Rights Clinic.
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Expert from Notre Dame explains ongoing crisis in Haiti
March 14, 2024
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - As violence continues to escalate in Haiti, the U.S. is planning to send more Marines to beef up security at the embassy there.
But even with that, Americans are trapped in the increasingly chaotic country.
Many of you may be confused about what’s happening there and why, so we brought Jean Marc Brissau to The WNDU Studios on Thursday to give us some perspective.
He’s a graduate programs manager at Notre Dame Law School and is Haitian.