Santa Clara Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) is proud to announce that it has been prominently cited in the recently released Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States. The Strategic Action…
On Monday, October 14, the U.N. Human Rights Committee opened its one hundredth and ninth session in Geneva, Switzerland. Three students from SCU Law’s International Human Rights Clinic are currently in Geneva to attend the session, along with our clinical…
In March 2013, clinic students Scott Idiart (3L) and Amanda Snyder (3L) traveled to Medellín, Colombia with clinical fellow, Britton Schwartz, to attend the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 47th Extraordinary Session. They observed the Courts hearings on three different contentious…
On March 11 and 12, IHRC students Scott Idiart (3L) and Jaqueline Ramirez (2L) traveled to Washington D.C. with clinical fellow, Britton Schwartz, to interview clients and attend the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights thematic hearings on human rights violations…
IHRC students Amanda Snyder, Amy Askin, and Jaqueline Judson, and Clinic Director Francisco J. Rivera Juaristi travelled to León, Nicaragua, to interview three clients (a doctor, a statistician, and a mechanic) who had been either labor union members or union…
Santa Clara Law International Human Rights Clinic students Amanda Snyder, Bernadette Valdellon, and Sophia Areias filed an amicus curiae brief before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a case involving access to in vitro fertilization in Costa Rica. The students co-wrote…
