Best schools for International Law (Human rights)? Forum

[jayjohn]

I was wondering which school out of the Top 20 are the strongest when it comes to international human rights law, clinics geared towards that area, and internships or programs with big international law names.

[tinman]

I was wondering which school out of the Top 20 are the strongest when it comes to international human rights law, clinics geared towards that area, and internships or programs with big international law names.

YLS is awesome in this area. In fact, it seems like international human rights is all that most of the students are interested in. I think it's because of our former Dean Harold Koh.

I've heard Harvard and Columbia are OK too. Probably NYU is up there as well.

Here is USNWR's Rankings for international law (again, YLS's focus in international law is international human rights, so I think it's #1 in that subarea):

Best Law Schools Specialty Rankings: International Law
Ranked in 2009
1 Columbia University
New York, NY
2 New York University
New York, NY
3 Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
4 Georgetown University
Washington, DC
5 Yale University
New Haven, CT
6 American University (Washington)
Washington, DC
7 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
8 George Washington University
Washington, DC
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
10 Stanford University
Stanford, CA
University of California--Berkeley

[OneKnight]

T20 Schools with human rights clinics include: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, NYU, Cornell, Berk, UCLA, USC, NYU, GULC, Columbia, UVa, Northwestern, Georgetown (Women's Human Rights), Texas

Notable T20 schools without clinics include: Chicago, Duke, Penn, Michigan (has a human trafficking clinic), Vanderbilt, WUSTL

(This is just a list I put together with quick google searches. Feel free to correct/update it!)