The Human Rights Institute (“HRI”) has filed an amicus brief urging Africa’s highest human rights court to address the disproportionate impact of the climate crisis on the human rights of children in its highly anticipated advisory opinion on climate change.
Deputy Director Michelle Liu was interviewed by Rede Brasil on the use of pepper spray by women in the United States. Watch "Pepper Spray: A Device the U.S. Has Used for Years" in Portuguese [embed]https://youtu.be/buKNnz-HO6U[/embed]
In a panel discussion organized by OSV, HRI Distinguished Fellow Diann Rust-Tierney spoke on the importance of acknowledging the nation’s racial history in light of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Read more about the panel…
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2025-2026 Robert F. Drinan, S.J, Chair in Human Rights Agnieszka Fryszman spoke at NYU Law on recent cases brought under the TVPRA based on forced labor in Asia. Watch the event recording and read more about the panel here.
The Human Rights Institute (“HRI”) has filed an amicus brief urging Africa’s highest human rights court to address the disproportionate impact of the climate crisis on the human rights of children in its highly anticipated advisory opinion on climate change.
With an eye toward identifying the advocates and strategies that will guide the next generation of climate justice work, on March 31, Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute (HRI) convened “Futures at Stake: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Youth…
Executive Director Elisa Massimino one of 100 signatures by international law experts across the United States, including senior professors; leaders of prominent international law associations, non-governmental organizations, and legal clinics; former…
When the Supreme Court hears oral argument tomorrow in Trump v. Barbara, Solicitor General John Sauer will try to persuade the Justices that a child is born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States only if the child’s parents are domiciled…
HRI Distinguished Fellow Scott Busby, and with Mary Giovagnoli, Harold Hongju Koh, and Michael Posner, wrote on Noem v. Al Otro Lado—which was heard by the Supreme Court on March 24—for Just Security. Read more about the bipartisan group of 13 former…
Distinguished Fellow and 2023-2024 Drinan Chair Soledad García Muñoz in Dirección General de Comunicación Social. Article in Spanish.
