The Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic (GRIL) stands at the cutting edge of global rights advocacy, harnessing the transformative power of data science and digital technology to drive change. Our mission is to revolutionize how rights are protected and enforced in the digital age.
Operating as a dynamic laboratory, GRIL collaborates with advocates, technologists, data scientists, and experts to reimagine advocacy strategies. We leverage advanced tools in digital technologies such as data analysis, machine learning, digital forensics, and AI to uncover hidden patterns, build compelling cases, and forge new justice pathways.
Our innovative approach uses a variety of methods, including the use of non-traditional data, the application of machine learning models to reveal patterns of abuse, and the creation of digital storytelling tools to generate public support. While we don’t focus on regulating technology’s impact on human rights, we ensure our technological applications comply with human rights principles.
GRIL equips students and advocates with skills to bridge the gap between traditional legal practice and data-based, innovative technologies. Our participants become uniquely positioned to drive meaningful change in global rights advocacy, uncovering crucial insights and advancing justice.
As a new clinic, GRIL continues to be co-designed by our clinical students, offering them a dynamic learning environment. Students engage with actors across the technology for human rights landscape, exploring where the most potent opportunities and needs exist for digital technologies to elevate – and transform – global rights advocacy. Students acquire data literacy, enabling them to understand, interpret, and communicate various types of data, methods, and tools relevant to legal advocacy rights work.
The multidisciplinary clinic faculty team includes Laurel Fletcher and Valentina Rozo Angel.
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