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283I sec. 001 - Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic Seminar (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Laurel E Fletcher (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 1
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
Tu 2:10 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Law 123
From January 14, 2025
To April 22, 2025
Course End: April 22, 2025
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 5
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 8
As of: 11/28 12:25 PM
Are you a creative problem-solver eager to design the future of human rights advocacy through innovative strategies and cutting-edge technology? Launching in January 2025, the Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic (GRIL) offers students a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a forward-thinking, experimental learning environment. Designed for 1L students and open to 2Ls, 3Ls, and LLM students, this clinic is perfect for students eager to explore the intersection of human rights and digital technology by focusing on planning future project, prioritizing strategic thinking over traditional client-based tasks.
GRIL encourages students to utilize data analysis and technological advancements to brainstorm groundbreaking advocacy strategies. Instead of focusing on immediate client deliverables, in this first GRIL Clinic semester, participants will engage in strategic planning with potential organizational clients—human rights research and advocacy groups—and explore new pathways for addressing global human rights issues through data analysis, visualization, digital storytelling, among other potential tools. Strategic planning projects will involve assessing how data analysis and visualization contributes to human rights investigations, litigation before national and international courts, or social justice policy advocacy.
By enrolling in this clinic, students can expect to acquire valuable skills including, interviewing, strategic planning, creative problem-solving, as well as acquiring knowledge of data analysis techniques and appropriate uses of digital tools like data visualization for human rights and social justice advocacy. Additionally, students will develop the ability to craft experimental strategies that leverage technology for social justice.
This course is tailored for those with a background in data analysis and a passion for creativity, eager to embrace experimentation. Successful students will enjoy shaping visionary advocacy projects without the constraints of implementing immediate advocacy tools (court filings, reports, etc.). At the GRIL Clinic, unleash your imagination and analytical prowess to craft innovative solutions for the future of human rights advocacy, developing new approaches in justice and technology. Join us in trailblazing a path towards transformative justice initiatives. This is an exciting and unparalleled opportunity for students to shape the future of Berkeley Law’s newest clinical offering which brings together human rights advocacy and emerging technologies.
Admission to GRIL Clinic is by separate application through the Clinical Program portal. Students can access the Clinical Program portal when applications open via this website: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/apply-to-the-clinics/ under the section "Access the Clinical Program Application."
Students must enroll in both the seminar and the companion clinical component.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
Exam Notes: (None) Class requires a series of papers, assignments, or presentations throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Clinics
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