The Climate Migration & Displacement Project (CMDP) is a Berkeley Law pro bono project that supports innovative litigation and policy research to secure rights and protections for populations displaced by climate disasters. This growing field of study and research is incredibly intersectional, touching on many legal issues, including environmental law, gender justice, immigrant rights, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, human security, and international and comparative law. Student participants will be able to support the research of high-level organizations and institutions by creating legal memos, policy briefs, and literature reviews, as needed by our partners.
Supervision: Students will be supervised by attorneys at the Human Rights Center.
Time Commitment: Students will be expected to attend numerous training sessions: (1) an introduction to climate mobility with an expert in the field; (2) an introduction to the Human Rights Center and their Climate Justice Program; (3) research training with the librarian; (4) open-source investigations training with the Human Rights Center; and (5) potentially other project-specific training sessions.
There will be weekly mandatory research training sessions over lunch on Mondays from 12:45-2:00 pm. Students will need to join every research session and will otherwise need to complete the rest of their weekly research independently. There will also be monthly meetings with our project partners and supervisors at the Human Rights Center. Student participants can expect to spend between 30-35 hours per semester on this project.
For more information, please contact the student leaders at CMDP@berkeley.edu.