New York City's Columbia University is host to the Human Rights Institute, a branch of the Columbia Law School. Opened in 1998, the Institute is Columbia's center for international human rights education, scholarship and practice. The school's courses are designed to approach human rights from domestic, international, constitutional and comparative perspectives. Human Rights based activities at Columbia Law School are Center for Public Interest Law, the Human Rights Clinic, and the Human Rights Law Review. Columbia University awards a doctorate in Human Rights through the School of Arts and Sciences.
Columbia Law School
435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
212-854-2640
law.columbia.edu
The Law School at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Civil and Human Rights awards two degrees, a doctorate in the science of law (J.S.D.) and a master of law (LL.M.) in International Human Rights Law. The Center sees itself as leader in the field for providing students from across the globe to study Human Rights from the perspective of the international legal process. A scholarship program through the Center allows students to take unpaid summer internships in the field. The summer of 2010 sees students working in Beijing, Costa Rica, and Bangladesh.
University of Notre Dame Law School
P.O. Box 780
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-6627
law.nd.edu
Northwestern University's Bluhm Legal Clinic hosts the Center for International Human Rights. The Center is directed by a former U.S. Ambassador at large for war crimes Issues. In addition to researching and creating dialogue on emerging human rights issues throughout the world, the Center focuses on international human rights law, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law. Faculty at the Center assists students in finding externship positions and post-graduate employment with international courts and human rights organizations.
Northwestern University School of Law
375 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611-3069
312-503-3100
law.northwestern.edu/
The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School aims to focus and direct international human rights law within the school. The Program is known to organize debates and international conferences and roundtables on the leading human rights issues. Students are assisted in immersing themselves in human rights activities through the school's summer fellowships, clinical work, speaker series, applied research and scholarship. In the summer of 2010, members of the Human Rights Program will testify before the US Supreme Court against a former Somali Minister of Defense.
Human Rights Program
Harvard Law School
Pound Hall 401
1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-9362
aw.harvard.edu