The Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic (GRIL) stands at the cutting edge of global rights advocacy, strategically leveraging the power of technology to drive evidence-based justice. Our mission is to revolutionize how rights are protected and enforced in the digital age.
GRIL is a dynamic laboratory where graduate students in law, data science, and technology-related fields work together to reimagine advocacy strategies. We serve organizational clients dedicated to advancing accountability and social justice for systemic harms. We build legal case theory, and design and execute on advanced tools in digital technologies such as data analysis, machine learning, and AI to uncover hidden patterns and turn them into evidence of violations and the foundation for data-driven solutions.
We support system-level change and accountability for large-scale rights violations. In areas as diverse as atrocity crimes, climate change, gender apartheid, police accountability, and government targeting of activists, our clients look to us to build strategic legal cases, campaigns, and policy reform initiatives. We equip clients with legal analyses bolstered by empirical evidence using non-traditional data and machine learning models. In some cases, digital storytelling tools help us generate public support. While we don’t focus on regulating technology’s impact on human rights, we ensure our technological applications comply with human rights principles.
Our students become uniquely positioned to drive meaningful change in fundamental rights advocacy, equipped with skills that bridge the gap between traditional legal practice and data-based, innovative technologies.
As a new clinic, GRIL continues to be co-designed by our clinical students, offering them a dynamic learning environment. Students engage with actors across the tech-for-human-rights landscape, exploring where the most potent opportunities and needs exist for digital technologies to elevate – and transform – global rights advocacy.
The multidisciplinary clinic faculty team includes Laurel Fletcher and Valentina Rozo Angel.
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