Academics

Introduction

This course will focus on challenges to U.S. detention, interrogation, and rendition policies and practices in the global war on terror.

What Will Be Taught

In the Clinic, students will research and review the following topics:

• U.S. practices that violate domestic and international human rights prohibitions
• Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
• Arbitrary detention
• Enforced disappearances

What To Expect

Students will review clinic projects and submit preference request forms. Clinic projects will involve a combination of legal research and writing, meetings with human rights attorneys, and client interviews.

Specific projects may include:

• Preparing urgent appeals to treaty bodies on behalf of individual clients
• Working on human rights litigation in U.S. federal court or international regional courts
• Drafting and monitoring submissions to treaty bodies Drafting research reports