283I sec. 001 - Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic Seminar (Fall 2025)
Instructor: Laurel E Fletcher (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
W 3:35 PM - 5:25 PM
Location: Law 141
From August 20, 2025
To November 19, 2025
Course End: November 19, 2025
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 8
As of: 04/04 07:13 AM
The Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic (GRIL) offers students a unique opportunity to prepare for a legal career that uses emerging technologies in legal advocacy. Our particular field of application is human rights but this approach is broadly transferable to other areas of law.
GRIL students utilize data-driven and technological advancements for groundbreaking advocacy strategies. Serving organizational clients—human rights research and advocacy groups—GRIL provides advocacy support and strategies to forge new pathways for addressing global human rights issues through data analysis, data science, visualization, digital storytelling, among other potential tools. GRIL clients want to harness data analysis, data science, and visualization to advance 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, legal research and writing, interviewing, acquiring literacy in the application of data science to legal advocacy initiatives, strategic planning, creative problem-solving, as well as building confidence and experience in harnessing digital technologies for legal advocacy. Students will design and help implement 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. Become the lawyer of the future!
This course is targeted for those with a background in data analysis and/or human rights and who have a passion for creativity and are eager to embrace experimentation. 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.
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." Applications open 4/8 at 3pm, and are due by noon on 4/15.
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) Series of papers or assignments throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Clinics
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
International and Comparative Law
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