International Law

Carolyn Patty Blum, clinical professor emerita and senior research fellow at the Human Rights Center, advises Vice President Harris to look in our own backyard if she wants to address root causes of Central America migration

Mark Cohen, Senior Fellow and Director of BCLT’s Asia IP Project, suggests the U.S. build more vaccine-manufacturing capacity and then give those vaccines to countries in need

Legal advisers to the International Criminal Court, including Alexa Koenig, director of the Human Rights Clinic, have sued to challenge the Trump administration’s sanctions on the court’s prosecutors for investigating Israel and U.S. actions in Afghanistan — sanctions that the Biden administration has left intact so far

Mark Cohen, Senior Fellow and Director of BCLT’s Asia IP Project, explains how China’s increased penalties for trade secret theft could be used to target foreign businesses operating in the country 

Dr. Rohini Haar discusses a new report by the Human Rights Center and Geneva-based Insecurity Insight, which identified more than 1,100 threats or acts of violence against health care workers and facilities last year

Dr. Rohini Haar discusses a new report by the Human Rights Center and Geneva-based Insecurity Insight, which identified more than 1,100 threats or acts of violence against health care workers and facilities last year

Professor Laurel Fletcher, Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, interviews the former high commissioner of Sri Lanka, who served from 2008 to 2014, about the role of her office in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka in the final stages of the war and since that time, and her views on what the council should do at its upcoming session

Lecturer Mallika Kaur discusses the farmers’ protests in India and the history that’s lead to widespread distrust of the government

Lecturer Mallika Kaur says the fight of the farmers in India is, at the heart of it, a fight against big monopolies owning everything we need to survive with dignity: medication, transportation, education, and food

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses the use of social media evidence to create a narrative as one piece of the evidentiary puzzle ahead of the impeachment trial of former president Trump