The practicum, taught by Michelle Liu, Awista Ayazi, and Melody Vidmar, is partnering this year with Our Children’s Trust (“OCT”), a non-profit public interest law firm representing the Lighthiser plaintiffs, to support their mission to secure the human rights of children to a healthy environment through strategic litigation. For students, the two-day evidentiary hearing was an extraordinary experiential learning opportunity, connecting their intensive classroom studies with the realities of strategic litigation and the lived experiences of youth on the frontlines of climate change.
In July 2025, approximately 200 years after the imposition of the so-called “Independence Debt,” the Human Rights Institute joined over sixty human rights organizations, including the Kolectif Ayisyen Afwodesandan (KAAD), and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), in sending an open letter to French officials demanding urgent repayment of the “debt.”
HRI Executive Director Elisa Massimino quoted in Courthouse News Service.
Former HRI Director Jane Stromseth has retired from Georgetown Law after 34 years of teaching.
ARUSHA, Tanzania – In an unprecedented legal initiative, a coalition of African civil society groups is preparing to submit a historic petition to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights seeking an Advisory Opinion on the human rights obligations of African states in the context of the climate crisis.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Rights Institute (HRI) at Georgetown Law, the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), and the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) have jointly made two significant submissions to the United Nations—one…
The Sedona Forum is the McCain Institute’s annual, high-level gathering of national and international leaders held each spring in the red rock country of Sedona, Arizona. Rooted in a commitment to character-driven leadership and core democratic values…
Leading academics, lawyers and international human rights advocates gathered on April 8 for “Truth, Solidarity, and Repair: Haiti and the Global Movement for Reparations,” the 2025 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights hosted by Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute (HRI).
Haiti Action Committee is honored to share the keynote address given by Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide at the April 8th, 2025 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: Truth, Solidarity and Repair. The conference was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. The focus of this year’s conference was “Haiti and the Global Movement for Reparations.”
Co-sponsored by Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Immigration Law Student Association, Georgetown Law International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
Law students monitoring civil trial between Energy Transfer Partners and Greenpeace.
