Advanced Human Rights Clinical Workshop
This workshop is designed for students that have already taken an introductory seminar or workshop in human rights advocacy and engaged in clinical work through the Human Rights Program. Taught in a seminar format, the Advanced Clinical Workshop seeks to strengthen participants' advocacy skills and to promote analysis of clinical work experience in human rights. The workshop must be taken in conjunction with clinical units (two, three, or four) through the Human Rights Program.

Human Rights and the
Environment Advocacy Seminar
Over the past half century, human rights law and international environmental law have made great strides--largely independent of one another. This course examines the connection between human rights and the environment, and efforts to bridge the two distinct legal discourses in the context of advocacy and social movements. What are the origins of efforts to link human rights and environmental movements and where are these movements headed? What do the movements share in common and where do they diverge? What are the main challenges and dilemmas facing those engaged in rights promotion and defense?

Human Rights and the Environment Advocacy Workshop
his workshop aims to develop advocacy skills and provide clinical work experience at the intersection of human rights and environmental protection. The workshop brings together a maximum of thirteen students, and must be taken in conjunction with clinical units (two, three, or four) through the Human Rights Program.

Human Rights Clinical Advocacy Seminar
This seminar assesses the successes, challenges and debates facing the human rights movement and focuses on concrete advocacy skills. The syllabus sets out the course’s focus on a wide range of advocacy methods, including reporting, international litigation, and business boycotts. Student projects for this course are clinical in nature. The course meets for two hours per week and is worth 2 credit units. In addition, students may add 2, 3 or 4 clinical units, for a maximum total of 6 credit units.

Human Rights Clinical Workshop
Students seeking clinical credits in human rights who do not enroll in the advocacy seminar must register for a 1-credit-unit clinical workshop, offered in both the fall and spring semesters. In conjunction with this course, students may add 2, 3 or 4 additional units. The clinical workshop will start with a few weeks of background readings and skills development, explained on the spring syllabus, after which the remainder of the course will focus on student presentations of their clinical projects.

International Human Rights Litigation Seminar
The past quarter century has witnessed the unprecedented establishment of international courts charged with adjudicating instances of human rights abuse. The newest of these bodies-the International Criminal Court (ICC)-has been heralded by some as one of the great achievements of the Twentieth Century, the culmination of decades of efforts by human rights activists to transform human rights from ideal into applicable law. Yet with the passage of time and the development of a record of performance for these international human rights bodies, critics argue that the experiment with international justice has been a grandiose failure. This course takes a critical look at international human rights litigation to hold states accountable before regional bodies (the European Court of Human Rights; the Inter-American Commission and Court; the African Commission and Court), universal mechanisms (the conventional and special mechanisms of the United Nations), and special institutions established to render individual criminal justice after mass atrocity (the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda; the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; the Special Court for Sierra Leone). The seminar will evaluate the process of litigation before these bodies and their jurisprudence, as well as their role in promoting (or undermining) justice and fostering reconciliation (or intensifying tensions) in post-conflict societies. In conjunction with this course, students may add 2, 3 or 4 additional units.