Georgetown Law students spent spring break in North Dakota to monitor the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial.
Last week, HRI Deputy Director Michelle Liu traveled to Cuba as part of the Guantánamo Observers Program run by the Georgetown Center on National Security.
In partnership with Nadia's Initiative—an NGO founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Murad focused on ending sexual violence as a weapon of war—students in the 2022-2023 Human Rights Advocacy in Action Practicum worked to develop and advance innovative strategies to hold the Islamic State (ISIS) accountable for its crimes against the Yazidi people. Applications for the 2023-2024 practicum are now open!
Former War Crimes Prosecutor Speaks on Transitional Justice
The Berkley Forum at Georgetown Law's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs sat down with Elisa Massimino to discuss the aspirations of the Center's Rethinking Religion and Human Rights project, the scope of her advocacy work, and relevant issues at the intersection of religion and human rights.
Georgetown Law announces that international human rights lawyer and former war crimes prosecutor David Tolbert will join the Law Center as the 2022-2023 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights.
Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Murad’s organization and the Human Rights Institute join together to empower Yazidis with new strategies for rights protection.
Every year, aspiring lawyers with an interest in human rights choose to study at Georgetown Law, whose Human Rights Institute (HRI) is a hub of training, scholarship and expertise.
A Malawi High Court judge signaled a need for law reform to protect the sexual rights of adolescents—based on research and scholarship by former Georgetown Law clinic students and Professor Michelle X. Liu.
WASHINGTON – Longtime civil and human rights attorney and national advocate for ending capital punishment Diann Rust-Tierney is joining Georgetown Law as the 2021-2022 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights.
WASHINGTON – Longtime human rights advocate and former Human Rights First President and CEO Elisa Massimino has been named executive director of Georgetown University Law Center’s Human Rights Institute.
