Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic – Focus Group
Thursday, March 6, 2025 @ 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
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Are you a JD student interested in Technology and Human Rights Advocacy? If so, please come and participate in our 1-hour focus group exploring a new law clinic at UC Berkeley Law.
Lunch provided!
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Time: 12:45pm-1:45pm PST
Location: Dean’s Seminar Room
Sign Up
Please sign up here. Our team will reach out to confirm your spot!
Sign Up Form: https://forms.gle/yiJfrpFBnRb84CiQ8
Goal
The goal of the focus group is to gather input from JD students about engagement models and topic areas of interest for a new clinic offering: the Global Rights Innovation Lab (GRIL) Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law.
What to Expect
The focus group will be facilitated for JD law students interested in human rights, social justice, data analysis, and technology. The discussion will last approximately 60 minutes and participants will be asked about their thoughts on clinical experiences in the legal field. The focus group will be recorded. The information will be used to inform GRIL’s 3 year business plan and potentially other publications. Participants will not be identified by name in any publication and we will anonymize any reference to individuals but may use anonymized quotes in publications from the study.
Who?
We’d like to talk with JD law students interested in human rights and social justice. Participants must be graduate students aged 18 and over who are actively involved, studying or interested in fields related to human rights, technology, or their intersection.
Contact
To learn more, please reach out to Ariel Sim (contact@arielsim.com). Ariel Sim is a designer, facilitator and researcher assisting GRIL faculty and the students with research methods related to design-thinking, design research, and strategic planning. You are also invited to contact Professors Laurel E. Fletcher (lfletcher@clinical.law.berkeley.edu) and Valentina Rozo (vrozo@clinical.law.berkeley.edu) for any questions about the research.
Informed Consent
We will keep all of the information provided during the focus groups as confidential as possible, and strongly encourage all participants to do likewise. However, we cannot guarantee that your data will not be shared after this focus group is over so please do not discuss anything that you do not wish to be made public. Participation is voluntary and participants are free to decline to answer any questions and stop their participation at any time.
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