Georgetown Law students spent spring break in North Dakota to monitor the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial.
On March 15, the Human Rights Institute and Hoyas for Human Rights, an undergraduate student club on the Hilltop Campus, co-hosted the 2024 Human Rights Summit. This year's Summit theme was "Working Towards Justice: Human Rights in the 21st Century."
On Jan. 31 the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security (GIWPS) mourned and commemorated the 10-year anniversary of the Yazidi genocide committed by ISIS with a panel titled “Rebuilding After Atrocities: Accountability and Reconstruction in Sinjar and Beyond.”
HRI is recruiting for our 2024-2026 Dash-Muse Teaching Fellow!
The Human Rights Institute is thrilled to welcome Soledad Garcia Munoz to Georgetown Law as the 2023-2024 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights! García Muñoz has just concluded two terms of exemplary service as the inaugural Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Last January, Alexis Shanes, L’24, found herself in Erbil, a city in Northern Iraq. “It was the most astonishing experience, one I never thought I would be able to have in law school,” she said.
By any measure, the entering 1L class at Georgetown Law this fall is impressive.
August 2023 marks two years since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the collapse of democracy under the Taliban takeover.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a set of policy priorities designed by the international community — with input from millions of people around the world — and adopted at the United Nations in 2015. The Sustainable Development Goals are ambitious: end poverty, protect the planet, and improve the lives and prospects of everyone on Earth.
Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute is thrilled to announce that Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Busby will join the Human Rights Institute this Fall as a Distinguished Fellow.
HRI is hiring for a Program Associate / Office Manager!
