The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) is the hub of human rights study at New York University School of Law, the top-ranked program for international law in the country and one of the premier law schools in the world. CHRGJ’s location in New York – home of the United Nations and of many human rights NGOs – puts us in a unique position to be at the physical and conceptual intersection of human rights scholarship and practice.

Having built a reputation for our academic and clinical work in an array of human rights subjects – including counter-terrorism; corporate abuses; caste discrimination; gender-based violence; economic, social, and cultural rights; and extrajudicial executions – CHRGJ is redefining its position at the crossroads of advocacy and scholarship.

Despite the normalization of human rights as part of international discourse and legal education, many parts of the field remains relatively under-analyzed. Capitalizing on our unique setting to interrogate the human rights field from a critical perspective, CHRGJ will bring together scholars and practitioners to strengthen both the practice and theory of the field.

CHRGJ carries out this mandate under the interdisciplinary direction of five leading faculty members from both inside and outside the law school. We house a robust fellowship program and host in-house scholarship by established academics and NYU students, as well as placing students in summer internships with human rights organizations.