About us

Founded in 2009, the Human Rights Law Clinic integrates students into the HRIC's work and helps them acquire knowledge and experience in international human rights law and practice. Each year the HRIC appoints around seventy members to the clinic. Being appointed as a member of the clinic is a fantastic opportunity to work with the Centre.

Our partners

Members of the clinic are allocated to teams, overseen by a student team leader. The teams work with partners, organisations at the national and international levels.

Our research

The Human Rights Law Clinic enables students to provide pro-bono legal research assistance to organisations working on human rights legal issues.

Each team works on a project, all of which are international in scope, yet also have an impact at the regional and local levels.

By the end of their time on the clinic the students will have produced a series of high-quality reports, each of which will provide partners with crucial, up-to-date research that will feed directly into ongoing litigation and policy drafting, as well as informing future projects. It is the role of the team leader (a student) to liaise directly with the partner organisations throughout the research and to ensure that all the final outputs are of the highest quality.

Further information

For further information on eligibility and how to apply please contact law-exec@bristol.ac.uk.‌‌