International Law

“Many people active in open source reporting will be playing close attention to whether the BBC succeeds,” said Alexa Koenig, executive director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley’s law school. 

“Many of us are watching to see how visual and other forms of digital evidence become useful or are challenged, what the judges think,” said Alexa Koenig, a co-director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and a leading expert on the use of emerging technologies in human rights practice.

“Where we are right now is that we, based on the work that the students did over the course of this semester, have been able to apply for asylum for these clients, but we’re waiting for USCIS to schedule their interviews,” said Kyra Lilien, the practicum’s instructor. “Now we wait.”

Human Rights Center Executive Director Alexa Koenig discusses the growing use of open source intelligence (OSINT) as a way to document international atrocities and bolster human rights prosecutions. 

International Human Rights Clinic Co-Director Roxanna Altholz discusses the sentencing of energy executive Roberto David Castillo in Honduras for arranging the 2016 murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres. 

An eight-month investigation by The Associated Press in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and its Investigative Reporting Program reveals a shadow industry that’s profiting off the Biden administration’s decision to send more than 25,000 Haitians attempting to immigrate into the U.S. back to Haiti, rather than to the South American countries where many had been living.

Professors Katerina Linos and Elena Chachko, co-editors of the AJIL Unbound symposium on Ukraine and International Law, discuss the contributions to the symposium and make the case that despite the horrific violence in Ukraine international law has fared better, and appears more resilient, than many might think.

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, says open source information can be invaluable at the preliminary investigation stage, as you’re planning either humanitarian relief or to conduct a legal investigation

Alexa Koenig, executive director of the Human Rights Center, says there’s been a shift in how tech companies are responding to events such as the Buffalo shooting