The Human Rights Institute serves as the focal point of international human rights education, scholarship and practice at Columbia Law School. The Institute currently focuses on a number of key themes, and, throughout the year, hosts a wide array of symposia, lectures, and other events to bring practitioners and scholars together.
Counterterrorism & Armed Conflict | Human Rights | Inter-American | Business & Human Rights in the Global Economy | |||
Ten Columbia Law School graduates receive Human Rights Institute Commendation for their demonstrated commitment to human rights.
Naomi Prodeau J.D. '17 co-authored and edited the International Protocol on Documenting Violations of Religious Freedom, a joint publication of the Religious Freedom Institute and Open Doors International and a tool for NGOs, lawyers, human rights activists, and institutions to provide an evidentiary standard and documentation of evidence that would be acceptable in most judicial or advocacy institutions.
The Human Rights Institute and Mwatana Human Rights call for US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to open new investigations into civilian deaths and injuries in Yemen from American operations.
The Global Movement for Black Lives grant is looking for one upper-year student (2L, 3L, LLMs) to join as a research assistant and teaching assistant. Researchers will work with the grant project team to learn about and engage with global and sub-Saharan African movements for Black lives.
HRI's Human Rights Resilience Project is calling for applications for the "Defenders Wellbeing Collective" - a unique space for leaders of grassroots, community, and survivor-led human rights organizations or movements globally to reflect, experiment, share, and learn together about how best to support greater wellbeing and resilience within their organizations and movements.