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263 sec. 001 - International Human Rights (Spring 2024)
Instructor: Brad Adams (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
Instructor: Clara Long
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
F 10:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Location: Law 170
From January 12, 2024
To April 19, 2024
Course End: April 19, 2024
Class Number: 32722
This course is open to 1Ls.
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 31
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 41
As of: 04/27 02:46 PM
This course critically examines the key international and domestic laws, actors, and institutions that play a role in the promotion and protection of human rights. We will study international, regional, and national mechanisms for the interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of human rights, including civil, criminal, and non-legal methods of accountability redress. We will focus on emerging, complicated and controversial topics in human rights law, such as climate change; refugees/asylum/migration; tech and free expression; and humanitarian intervention. The course will also discuss the effectiveness of the international human rights system, including the role of the United Nations, state actors, international NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, and national level actors. Finally, we will consider the many challenges to human rights in an increasingly authoritarian and multipolar world posed by key exceptionalists, such as the United States, China, Russia and India, as well as corporations and other non-state actors.
Clara Long is a human rights lawyer who is the Director of Policy and Organizing at Human Impact Partners, a national public health non-profit focused on building power for equity and justice. She is responsible for developing and implementing HIP's strategy for policy, advocacy, organizing, and research on climate justice, the criminal legal system, housing justice and economic justice. For the previous decade, Long focused on addressing US human rights issues at Human Rights Watch, with a particular emphasis on migration and border policy, including human rights and climate migration. She has written and researched in-depth reports and advocacy materials on deaths in US immigration detention, mistreatment and dismissal of asylum seekers at the US border, illegal returns of asylum seekers to Central America, US border policing abuses, and family separation, among other issues.
Brad Adams is Executive Director of Climate Rights International, which he founded in 2022. From 2002-2022, he was the Executive Director of the Asia division at Human Rights Watch, overseeing investigations, advocacy and media work in twenty countries. Brad has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He regularly appears on the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and other major media. Prior to Human Rights Watch, Brad worked in Cambodia as the senior lawyer for the Cambodia field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He is the founder of the Berkeley Community Law Center (now the East Bay Community Law Center), where he worked as a legal aid lawyer. He is a member of the California State Bar.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
Exam Notes: (TH) Take-home examination
Exam Length: 3 hours
Course Category: International and Comparative Law
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Social Justice and Public Interest
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