International Human Rights Clinic Senior Clinical Instructor Bonnie Docherty wrote a blog post for today’s one-week anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings. Before she was an internationally renowned arms expert, Docherty was a local reporter for the Middlesex News (now MetroWest Daily News) whose job it was to cover the marathon every year. You can read her post, After the Bombings, Boston Marathon Remains an Inspiration, at the IHRC blog.
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Clinical Blog Roundup
A recap of posts from HLS clinics and student practice organizations over the past week.
Tortured for Testimony: Anarchists Get Solitary Confinement for Not Snitching
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP
Job Opportunities
Posted by HIRC
Business and Human Rights in Ireland: A New Blog
Posted by Shane Darcy, Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program at IHRC
Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond
Posted by Cyberlaw
After Protests, Prison Firm Pulls Donation
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP
Build the Future, Fix Our Schools
Posted by Jeanne Segil, JD ’14, at IHRC
The Queer Case Against Prisons
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP
Event 4/17: IHRC launches MSI Integrity: A New Business and Human Rights NGO
Wednesday April 17
4:30 – 6:30 PM
Harkness South
Join the International Human Rights Clinic in celebrating the launch of the Institute for Multi-stakeholder Initiative Integrity (MSI Integrity), a non-profit organization that the Clinic has helped get off the ground. MSI Integrity examines the impact and value of voluntary business-related human rights initiatives, such as Fairtrade labeling and the Kimberley Process certification for conflict diamonds. Through research, critical assessment, and shared learning, MSI Integrity aims to ensure that these initiatives protect and promote human rights. Drinks will be served!
Clinical Blog Roundup
A recap of posts from HLS clinics and student practice organizations over the past week.
Recap of International Law Journal Panel: Environmental, Human Rights, and Development Issues in International Investment Arbitration
Posted by Cara Solomon at IHRC
Finding Momentum: Human Rights and the Environment
Posted by Tyler Giannini at IHRC
America’s Domestic Black Sites: The Tragic History of Solitary Confinement
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP
Fighting for the Rights of Immigrant Detainees
Posted by HIRC
Clinical Blog Roundup
A recap of posts from HLS clinics and student practice organizations over the past week.
Clinic and Human Rights Watch: Obama Should Urge Jordan to Stop Sending Asylum Seekers Back to Syria
Posted by Meera Shah at IHRC
Iraqi Civilians and U.S. Veterans Come Together to Demand the Right to Heal
Posted by Cara Solomon, Deborah Popowski and Stella Kim at IHRC
Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons.
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP
US: A nation of inmates?
Posted by Tori Porell at PLAP
Student Perspectives – Working with Clients
Posted by Mary Triick at HIRC
Fee Award in ACLU v. Alvarez
Posted by Cyberlaw Clinic
2013 Gary Bellow Public Service Award student finalists all involved in HLS clinics
The Gary Bellow Public Service Award was created in 2001 to recognize excellence in public interest work at HLS and to honor Professor Bellow (’60). The awards are given annually by the student body of Harvard Law School to a student and alumnus/a for their commitment to social justice.
The three student finalists for the 2013 Gary Bellow Public Service Award are all HLS clinical students. Their involvement spans a range of HLS clinics and SPOs.
Crystal Redd: Prison Legal Assistance Project, Harvard Defenders, The Mississippi Delta Project, Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Clinic, Employment Law Clinic, and Criminal Justice Institute.
Lara Berlin: International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Mediation Program.
Stephanie Davidson: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
Read more about finalists’ work and vote for student and alumnae candidates by March 27th.
Gary Bellow was the founder and former faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Clinical Programs, and a pioneering public interest lawyer. His career was dedicated to providing legal services to the poor and to teaching law students practical skills. Commenting about his time from 1962-1965, when he was serving as deputy director of the Legal Aid Agency for the District of Columbia, and when he and his colleagues faced an enormous caseload with no job training, Professor Bellow told the Harvard Law Bulletin, “We discovered the best legal education America had to offer didn’t teach us how to get someone out of a cell block.”
Professor Bellow co-founded the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, the school’s major legal clinic, located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
Event: Human Rights Program Orientation – Sep 12
Stop by WCC 2009 on Wed, Sep 12 for the Human Rights Program Orientation.
Join the Harvard Human Rights Program (HRP) in WCC 2009 on Wed, Sep 12 from 12-1:30pm for pizza, an overview of HRP opportunities, and how you can get involved.
Learn more about:
- The International Human Rights Clinic
- Summer funding for human rights internships
- Post-graduate fellowships
- Events and conferences
- The larger human rights community at Harvard Law School
Get to know:
- Clinical Instructors
- Visiting Fellows from the Academic Program
- Representatives from student groups focused on human rights, including HLS Advocates for Human Rights.
For more information, stop by WCC 3139 or email hrp at law.harvard.edu. Hope to see you there!
Roundup: Updates from HLS Human Rights Program
One of three reports released by HLS Human Rights Program this past week
In the past week, HLS Human Rights Program staff and students have been in the news with three reports:
Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S. Response to Occupy Wall Street
From the HLS International Human Rights Clinic blog:
“The first report in our multi-clinic Protest and Assembly Rights Project series calls on New York City authorities to stop the pattern of abusive policing of Occupy Wall Street protests. Lead authored by our partners at NYU and Fordham, the report released today documents in painstaking detail how the New York police and other city officials violated the rights of Occupy protesters.”
Additional Reading:
14 Specific Allegations of NYPD Brutality During Occupy Wall Street (The Atlantic)
Accusations of Police Misconduct Documented in Lawyers’ Report on Occupy Protests (The New York Times)
At the Hospital There Are No Human Rights: Reproductive and Sexual Rights Violations of Women Living with HIV in Namibia
From the HLS International Human Rights Clinic blog:
“Despite repeated calls for reform, the Government of Namibia’s inaction raises serious concerns about violations of the sexual and reproductive rights of women living with HIV, according to a report released today at the International AIDS Conference by Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, the Namibian Women’s Health Network, and Northeastern Law School.”
Additional Reading:
The Day After Victory: More Work Needed to Protect Rights of Namibian Women Living with HIV (HLS International Human Rights Clinic blog)
Explosive Situation: Qaddafi’s Abandoned Weapons and the Threat to Libya’s Civilians
From the HLS International Human Rights Clinic blog:
“Abandoned weapons that were once part of Muammar Qaddafi’s vast arsenal threaten civilian lives in Libya, according to a report released today by Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC), in partnership with CIVIC and the Center for American Progress.”
Additional Reading:
Report Finds Gaddafi Weapons Pose Threat to Civilians (The Tripoli Post)
Libya after Khadafy is littered with massive amounts of abandoned deadly weapons (The Boston Globe)
REPORT: Weapons Left Over from Qaddafi’s Arsenal Pose Serious Threats to Libyans (ThinkProgress)
Roundup: Clinical Programs in HLS News
HLS students traveled all over the world during spring break
Roundup: Clinical Law Teaching (Video)
Earlier this semester, HLS Office of Academic Affairs and HLS Graduate Program hosted a conversation about how to become a clinical law professor featuring our very own Tyler Giannini (Clinical Director of the International Human Rights Clinic) and Ron Sullivan (Director of the Criminal Justice Institute). The video is now available on the HLS Law Teaching Colloquia website, along with other great videos such as “The Job Talk”, “Developing a Research Agenda”, “Getting Published”, and “Becoming a Law Professor”.
Note: HLS pin is required to view the videos.