(L to R) Maya Raghu, Legal Momentum; Cynthia Soohoo, Project Director of Bringing Human Rights Home; Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Fellow and Human Rights Clinic Supervising Attorney; and Elizabeth Benjamin, Community Service Society.
The Bringing Human Rights Home Project (BHRH) works with U.S. lawyers to build legal theories to use human rights standards in domestic courts, to expand advocacy efforts to include U.N. and regional mechanisms and to encourage collaborations that combine legal and other human rights strategies, such as documentation, organizing and education work. In addition to convening and hosting strategic discussions and trainings, BHRH directly contributes to the development of advocacy strategies and human rights norms by working on selected matters before U.S. courts and the U.N. and Inter-American human rights systems.
BHRH’s Lawyers Network provides a space for domestic human rights lawyers to collaborate, share and develop strategies.
BHRH administers and develops domestic human rights resources through Probono.net and new publications.
BHRH builds U.S. legal capacity through the training of young lawyers.
This is done in collaboration with the Columbia Human Rights Clinic and through human rights training programs for practicing attorneys.
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In 2006, BHRH sponsored an all day CLE programs on the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Relationship Between International and Domestic Law.
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The 2007 CLE on Comparative Foreign Law in U.S. Courts and Advocacy was hosted by the Human Rights Institute, the ASIL and Northeastern Law School's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy.
- Lecturers included: Roger Alford, Pepperdine Law School; Sarah Cleveland, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School; Martha Davis, Northeastern Law School; Laleh Ispahani, ACLU; Vicki Jackson, Georgetown Law School; and Sarah Paoletti, University of Pennsylvania Law School.
(Above L: Sarah Cleveland, incoming professor Columbia Law School and Roger Alford, Pepperdine Law School; Above R: Vicki Jackson, Georgetown Law School.)
Please see below for the available course materials:
Current Use of International and Foreign Law in Constitutional Interpretation
Use of International and Foreign Sources in Courts: A Debate
Constitutional Comparisons: Then and Now, Why and How?
