Center for Business and Human Rights

As a top-ranked graduate school, Boston University School of Public Health offers access to innovative research, scholarship, and public health practice; a top-tier education with an on-the-ground mission.

The Human Rights Program was founded in 1984 as a center for human rights scholarship, and the International Human Rights Clinic grew out of the Program. Today, faculty and staff of the Human Rights Program and the International Human Rights Clinic include scholars and practitioners with decades of experience in the field. As part of the broader human rights community at Harvard, we work closely with other faculty, clinics, numerous graduate students, and research centers at the Law School and University.

The Stanford Human Rights Center provides tools for students, advocates, states, and civil society to better understand how to respect and protect human rights. They promote events, student engagement, and public understanding of international human rights and global justice. Their work focuses on public policy analysis and the identification of international best practices in the areas of (criminal) justice reform, conditions of detention, and the inter-American human rights system.

The Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School sits at the nexus of practice and research on immigration laws in the United States. The Program supports the collaboration of scholars at Cornell focused on immigration and human rights across many disciplines. The program’s work grounds migration analysis in international human rights standards. The United States is a party to a number of international human rights treaties that require it to ensure that police treat immigrants fairly, to provide adequate conditions in detention centers, and to ensure that immigrants are not subject to discrimination.

The Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law conducts research on war crimes and other serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights. Using evidence-based methods and innovative technologies, they support efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to protect vulnerable populations. They also train students and advocates to research, investigate, and document human rights violations and turn this information into effective action. We are guided by the need to listen to and support survivors, test innovative ideas, draw from multiple disciplines, use rigorous methods, and collaborate.

UCLA Law has become a West Coast hub for impactful human rights work, with comprehensive curricular offerings, illustrious faculty members, a stream of expert speakers from around the world, active student organizations and journals, clinical opportunities that open the doors for students to make a difference and connections to UCLA’s many impactful human rights efforts. The Promise Institute for Human Rights is identifying new pathways to human rights accountability, recognition of atrocities and challenges to impunity for human rights abuses. UCLA Law's International and Comparative Law Program  offers outstanding programs in a variety of international law disciplines.