Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic

The Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic (GRIL) offers students a unique opportunity to integrate digital technologies into legal advocacy. Our particular field of application is human rights, but this approach is broadly transferable to other areas of law and client-facing work in the fields of data science, public policy, and other social sciences.

GRIL students utilize data-driven and technological advancements for groundbreaking legal advocacy strategies. Serving organizational clients — grassroots organizations, national and international public interest and human rights groups, GRIL provides advocacy support and strategies to forge new pathways to address human rights challenges. GRIL clients want to harness data analysis, data science, and visualization to advance human rights investigations, litigation before national and international courts, or social justice policy advocacy.

This fieldwork component is taken with the 2-unit seminar.

Admittance to the clinic is through an application process: 

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