2024 Fall

LEGALST 125 001 - LEC 001

Human Rights and War Crimes Investigations: Methods

Alexa Koenig, Yen-Tung Lin

Aug 28, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024

02:00 pm - 04:59 pm

Social Sciences Building 110

Class #:30862

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Letters & Science Legal Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: -12

Enrolled: 52

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 40

Waitlist Max: 10

Open Reserved Seats:

1 reserved for Legal Studies Majors

1 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week, 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 8 hours of outside work hours per week.

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Course Catalog Description

This seminar offers an introduction to the concept and practice of human rights research and investigations, with an emphasis on the collection and analysis of online open source information. In addition to lectures and readings, the course will engage students in the Human Rights Investigations Lab at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center, an effort that supports the work of Amnesty International, the Syrian Archive, and a number of other organizations that are working to bring awareness to and collect evidence in support of international atrocity cases, including human rights law firms and international commissions of inquiry. In the seminar and lab, students will have an opportunity to engage in one or more real-world investigations.