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Unique among American law schools, the Crowley Program's Annual Human Rights Fact-Finding Mission provides law students with the opportunity to participate in an overseas human rights investigation and prepares them for a career in international human rights. In the spring of th...

The Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School in New York City was established in 2007 through a generous donation from Jim Leitner ('82). The Leitner Clinic aims to train a new generation of human rights lawyers and to inspire results-oriented, practical human rights work throughout the world. We work in par...

In the new Millennium, poverty and inequality around the world are still widespread. Over 1 billion people live in extreme poverty on less than $1 a day. Nearly 100 million school-age children are not in school. One billion people do not have access to clean drinking water and 2.6 billion are without adequate sanitation. At the same time, the global environment is deteriorating at an unpreceden...

This spring-semester clinic, co-taught by Professor Paolo Galizzi and Levinson Fellow Alena Herklotz, provides an opportunity for students to study international development law and apply their knowledge in concrete capacity building activities in Africa.

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The International Law and the Constitution Initiative, directed by Professor Catherine Powell, explores the relationship between internationalism and constitutionalism. The Initiative hosts public events and provides research and policy opportunities for scholars and students. Examples of projects the Initiative has supported are posted below.