Title
Direct Participation: Law School Clinics and International Humanitarian Law
Recommended Citation
David Kaye, Direct Participation: Law School Clinics and International Humanitarian Law, 95 Int'l Rev. Red Cross 1 (2015).
Abstract
Law school clinics focused on international humanitarian law (IHL) enable students to participate directly in the development and application of IHL through concrete “real world” work – from training to research and fact-finding, litigation to high-level advocacy, and many spaces in between. These opportunities do far more than just contribute to these students' development as effective, reflective lawyers, certainly a key goal of any clinical environment. Clinical IHL work also matches clinical pedagogy with cutting-edge issues in armed conflict to deepen students' law school experiences and enables them to engage in the IHL goals of promotion, implementation and enforcement.