International Women's Human Rights

The clinic prepares students to work in any legal environment and we encourage and prepare interns to engage human rights in domestic work in the United States. Although our work has an international focus, the skills learned here are important for all legal work and much of our work involves representing clients in U.S. courts. In addition to substantive human rights knowledge, former students emphasize the value of IWHR in honing their litigation and advocacy skills, and capacity to challenge injustice through creative, strategic thinking out of the box.

Our graduates work in a variety of capacities in national and international venues:

• As judicial clerks in New York and New Jersey state courts, U.S., South African, and Australian federal courts, the Court of International Trade, and the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals (ICTY and ICTR).
  
  
• In legal aid and legal services offices, plaintiff-side employment firms, and immigration firms and programs.
  
  
• At UN Missions or domestic and international legal advocacy organizations such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, DRUM-Desis Rising Up and Moving, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Committee, the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice, the International Disability Rights Caucus (which negotiated the Disability Rights Treaty with the leadership of one of our grads), the Center for Economic and Scoial Rights, and in humanitarian relief projects.
  
  
• In voluntary bar association, public interest activities, and grant-making institutions.
  
  
• In further academic study and faculty positions