Claiming Our Role as Human Rights Lawyers: How a Human Rights Framework Can Advance Our Advocacy: A Webinar Panel Discussion
Issue: 2011 September - October
Claiming Our Role as Human Rights Lawyers: How a Human Rights Framework Can Advance Our Advocacy: A Webinar Panel Discussion
$15.00
In
a webinar panel discussion held in June 2011, attorneys from a broad
array of organizations discussed how they use a human rights framework
in representing clients and offered examples of the framework’s impact.
Panelists from a Legal Services Corporation-funded program (Maryland
Legal Aid), an environmental justice organization in rural Louisiana
(Advocates for Environmental Human Rights), a law school clinic
emphasizing workers’ human rights (University of Pennsylvania School of
Law’s Transnational Legal Clinic), and a national advocacy organization
(American Civil Liberties Union Human Rights Program) all find that
human rights arguments, crafted carefully and used in appropriate cases,
bolster their advocacy.

