The Centre for Human Rights in Practice has developed a number of projects where students have been involved in various ways.

Current Projects

International Mooting

Students are engaged with various international mooting opportunities. Most recently, in January 2011 a team of students look part in the KK Luthra International Mooting Competition and came third place.

An account of their experience can be found via the attachment below.

The Death Penalty Project

The Centre's Death Penalty Project now consists of two elements:

1. The Internship Programme

2. US Attorney Support Programme

The Death Penalty Internship Programme is a unique opportunity for “hands-on” exposure of legal work involving the common law system of the United States of America, which also encompasses diverse areas of criminal justice, medical law and human rights. The duration of the internship is two months and the student can expect to work on: United States legal research, manage case files, contribute to the briefs filed in state and federal courts, interview witnesses and jurors in appeals cases and visit prisons, including death row.

The Continuing Support Programme aims to assist US attorneys with their on-going work on capital cases in a number of different ways. Students are organised in teams in order to provide analysis and research to help those lawyers working for clients who are faced by the death penalty. 

For more information on the internship programme please click here.

For more information on the attorney support programme please click here.

YOU*th Inspire

YOU*th Inspire is an educational initiative targeted at young people still at school or college. The project seeks to inspire youths to understand, engage with, speak out and challenge issues of current affairs, law, human rights and global injustice. For more information please click here.

PRO BONO PROJECTS THROUGH THE STUDENT LAW SOCIETY

The Centre has close links with the student led pro bono activites through the Law Society. Projects include:

• Howard League
• Local International Project
• Coventry Refugee Centre
• Broad Street
• Pathways to Law
• Women's Project
• FeminIjtihad
• Law Clinic (pending)

For more information please visit the Law Society's website here.

Community Justice Project

The Community Justice Project was established in October 2006. It operated as a vehicle for community human rights initiatives where students and academics worked with organisations outside the University on human rights related issues. The Project developed a research programme, in association with the Sociology Department and Coventry Law Centre, funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, into discovering barriers to access to human rights advice.

Discrimination awareness campaign

The project delivered an anti-discrimination programme both in Coventry and (as far as disability discrimination is concerned) more widely across the West Midlands in association with Coventry Law Centre. Students from Warwick Law School assisted in the delivery of awareness raising workshops and in various other ways.

The right to protest

This project engaged in a research and advocacy campaign based on the deterioration of the right to protest following various pieces of UK legislation. Students were required to find out what is happening on the ground and also to investigate the law. This information was presented to the public for an improvement in the rights associated with legitimate protest.

Immigration project

For information concerning about any of these initiatives please contact Andrew Williams on A.T.Williams@warwick.ac.uk