295.5H sec. 001 - Human Rights Clinic (Fall 2025)
Instructor: Roxanna Marie Altholz (view instructor's profile)
Instructor: Radhika Kapoor
Instructor: Helen Kerwin
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Units: 4 - 6
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Course End: December 04, 2025
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 17
As of: 04/04 07:13 AM
The Human Rights Clinic allows students to design and implement creative solutions to advance the global struggle for the protection of human rights. Students are assigned to work on innovative human rights projects on behalf of individuals and marginalized communities that have been the targets of repression and violence. Clinic students prepare and conduct litigation before national and international judicial forums concerning human rights violations. They also engage in interdisciplinary empirical studies of the impact of human rights abuses--research that aims to achieve policy outcomes. Clinic projects frequently involve policy analysis and the drafting of statutes and standards to govern the conduct of state and non-state actors. Students enrolled in the clinic also take a seminar course that provides a forum for exploring the links between legal theory and their cases and projects.
Please visit https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/human-rights-clinic/projects-and-cases/ for more information on the work of the Human Rights Clinic.
Enrollment in the Clinic (4 units per semester) and Seminar (2 units) is by permission. 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.
Because of project demands, Clinic students may not enroll concurrently in another clinic or field placement.
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Requirements Satisfaction:
Work in the clinic may satisfy Option 2 of the J.D. writing requirement with instructor approval. In order to satisfy Option 2, clinic students must complete a paper or series of written work that comprises 30 or more pages. Students who wish to satisfy the writing requirement must get instructor approval and submit their draft for comment and revision.
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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
Social Justice and Public Interest
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