McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism
Law students who participated in the McGill/Hebrew U. Summer Program in Human Rights pose for a group photo with Profs Tomer Broude and René Provost between classes. This year's program, titled "Reimagining Socio-Economic Rights," took place July 28-August 13, 2013, in Jerusalem, Israel.
Human Rights Internships Applications for summer 2014
- Monday, 7 October 2013, 13:30-14:30 in NCDH 202 – Internship Information Session
- Monday, 7 October 2013 – Call for applications opens
- Friday, 1 November 2013 – Applications DUE to chrlp [dot] law [at] mcgill [dot] ca (by 3PM)
- Thursday, 14 November 2013 – Notification regarding interview
- Commencing 25 November 2013 – Interviews
- Tuesday, 2 December 2013 – Notification of decisions
Applications must be submitted electronically to chrlp [dot] law [at] mcgill [dot] ca. Please submit all required documents together as a single PDF document, if possible. Applications should be addressed to Nandini Ramanujam, Executive and Program Director.
Download the information document: Human Rights Internships - Program Description – Summer 2014 [.doc] (rev. 27 Sep 2013) or visit the Internships page.
Disability Rights Seminars 2013-2014
The CHRLP is pleased to present its 2013-2014 seminar series on selected issues of human rights and disability law, which builds on the themes explored in last year's successful series.
The four events we have planned this university year seek to engage in one of the most compelling human rights issues of our day, consistent with the Faculty of Law’s tradition of analysis, scholarship and promotion of human rights and social justice. The events will follow the format of a teaching seminar and required resources will be circulated ahead of time.
Sign up today. See our information and calendar page to find out more.
The continuing relevance of human rights
Human rights evoke concern with the lives of individuals and the well-being of communities. Relevant to our understanding of history, the present, and inter-generational justice, human rights have been on institutional, legislative, constitutional, and international agendas, and have been embraced by diverse social movements in countries all over the world. Human rights concepts have been relied upon in efforts to promote peace, cooperation, and intercultural dialogue.
Plurality in a globally connected world
Human rights concepts are increasingly being applied in diverse social and cultural contexts, reflective of a legally plural world. This plurality prompts new thinking about the relationship between law and society. Connecting the study of human rights to legal pluralism brings to light the importance of multiple legal and normative orders, ethical inquiry, local knowledge, individual and systemic relationships, and social power within the institutions and communities of civil society.
An innovative legal and interdisciplinary approach
The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism is a focal point for innovative legal and interdisciplinary research, dialogue, and outreach on human rights and legal pluralism. The Centre's mission is to provide students, professors and the larger community with a locus of intellectual and physical resources for engaging critically with how law impacts upon some of the most compelling social problems of our modern era.
