What We Do
The Notre Dame Global Human Rights Clinic provides law students with real-world lawyering experience representing organizations and groups combating human rights violations worldwide (and especially in authoritarian regimes); providing much-needed human rights training and education with international and local community partners; and assisting with advocacy for legislative implementation of human rights and human rights driven-legal reform.
The Global Human Rights Clinic will prepare J.D. and Human Rights LL.M. students with a combination of doctrinal mastery and practical and problem-solving skills required for the professional practice of international human rights law. By working in the clinic, students also gain invaluable insight into the world-wide system of human rights advocacy through international courts, arbitrary tribunals, and international and regional organizations.
Finally, the Global Human Rights Clinic provides legal advising for legislative, administrative, or regulatory implementation; and practice-oriented legal research aimed at developing appropriate educational or training material on international human rights law, upon the request of judicial, quasi-judicial, governmental, and non-governmental institutions around the world.