Human Rights Program

Human Rights Study Project

Now a for-credit course, the project's mission is to further the study of law affecting the protection of basic rights in foreign countries. Each year a project team travels abroad to research human rights issues in a specific country and report their findings.

HRSP Trip Reports

John Bassett Moore Society of International Law

The J.B. Moore Society is a driving force in international law activities at the Law School. Each year, the Society hosts a symposium on topics such as the war on terror and corruption in foreign governments, as well as a lunch lecture series in which international law faculty and foreign graduate students present papers. The Society sponsors a Jessup International Law Moot Court team and coordinates with the Charlottesville office of the International Rescue Committee to help recently settled refugees.

Mary Maerz, Lise Guerrier, Erin Seagears, Camilo Sanchez, Elisabeth Hauser, Hannah Keefer, Gia Nyhuis, Jennifer Kelso and Anna Cox

The eight students in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law ventured overseas in early January to learn about human rights law in India.