KDEC 9635 - Economic Justice and Human Rights clinic programme

The clinic course includes both theoretical and practical training, focused on public interest projects and the resolution of concrete problems relating to contemporary themes of justice and social innovation in a globalized world. The students will be divided into teams, each one undergoing 12 hours of intensive training given in class and a half-day of collective work per week. The selected students will be entrusted with missions and projects aimed at developing judicial and extra-judicial strategies aimed at remedying situations of human rights violations by actors of globalization and economic development. They will work in support of NGOs or lawyers working on these issues on a transnational scale and in developing countries. They will also be supervised on these projects by a lecturer, as well as by lawyers and jurists practicing in law firms and NGOs.

Students are selected based on application and interview. Students taking part in the HEDG clinic program are required to take the course "Human Rights, Global Poverty and Development" by Mr. Perelman in the fall semester.

Course readings prepared in advance, supervised teamwork, work in collaboration with external partners.

Clinical work : 40% ; student led workshop 25% ; class participation 25% ; self-reflection memo 10%.

The clinic requires strong student involvement, both in the conduct of the projects and in the preparation of the clinic courses.