UCLA Law has become a West Coast hub for impactful human rights work, with comprehensive curricular offerings, illustrious faculty members, a stream of expert speakers from around the world, active student organizations and journals, clinical opportunities that open the doors for students to make a difference and connections to UCLA’s many impactful human rights efforts. The Promise Institute for Human Rights is identifying new pathways to human rights accountability, recognition of atrocities and challenges to impunity for human rights abuses. UCLA Law's International and Comparative Law Program offers outstanding programs in a variety of international law disciplines.
Areas of Focus
Human Rights
Faculty with experience at the United Nations, The Hague and in conflict zones lead students in the search for new solutions to the human rights crises of our times.
Centers of Excellence
Our Faculty
Joseph Berra
Human Rights in the Americas Project Director
Kal Raustiala
Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law
Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations
Robert Bradley Sears
Associate Dean of Public Interest Law
David Sanders Distinguished Scholar of Law & Policy, The Williams Institute
Alex Wang
Professor of Law
Kate Mackintosh
Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law