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…
HRI Distinguished Fellow Scott Busby at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission with Human Rights First. Read his recommendations here.
HRI Faculty Advisor John Mikhail quoted in the Washington Post. Read the article here.
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2025-2026 Drinan Chair in Human Rights Agnieszka Fryszman spoke to Courthouse News Service about a group of Indonesian fishermen who say they were forced to work under intolerable conditions and under the threat of violence on fishing boats that sold…
Executive Director Elisa Massimino featured in Washington Lawyer Magazine November/December issue, "Year in Review: Unpacking the Key Legal Developments of 2025." Read the article here (Page 29).
HRI Distinguished Fellow Scott Busby interviewed by Deutsche Welle about the State Department’s recently released human rights reports. Watch the interview here (Box download)
