“The Center’s work in impact litigation embodies the law school’s commitment to advancing human rights and dignity.”
Robert Goldman, faculty advisor
STUDENTS HAVE WORKED ON THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS:
• Analysis of the Pardon powers of the President of the United States and its use in the case of Joseph Arpaio;
• Preliminary report on the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions;
• Amicus Brief for a case against Ethiopia before the African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights;
• Amicus Brief against the death penalty, submitted before the Constitutional Court of Guatemala;
• Amicus Brief on gender stereotypes and profiling of sex workers in Colombia, submitted before a Court of Appeals in Colombia;
• Legal Opinion on Inter-American Human Rights standards on gender identity applicable to the regulation of change of legal name in birth certificates and identity cards submitted before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights;
• Oral arguments before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights during a hearing on the Advisory Opinion on Inter-American Human Rights standards on gender identity applicable to the regulation of change of legal name in birth certificates and identity cards;
• Amicus Brief on international human rights standards applicable to the regulation of abortion, submitted before the Constitutional Court of Chile;
• Legal Brief on alternatives to pretrial detention submitted to the Inter-American
• Drafting of an introduction for a bill on Disability Rights in Colombia;
• FOIA request to different U.S. government offices on the treatment of undocumented migrant children in detention who reach the age of 18 while in detention;
• Draft of a report for the United Nations on the public health and labor problem of chronic kidney disease in workers of the sugarcane industry in Nicaragua;
• Litigation support to legal counsels on a case of LGBTI rights in a country in the Caribbean;
• Analysis of the jurisprudence of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions;
• Legal analysis of options for legalization of sex work in Latin America;
• Research for the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights on the rights of people with disabilities in Latin America;
• Litigation support for a case on due process before the Inter-American system of Human Rights against Panama