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
Lara Stemple
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student Programs
Director, Health and Human Rights Law Project
Ilan H. Meyer
Williams Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy, The Williams Institute
E. Tendayi Achiume
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
Catherine Sweetser
Deputy Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
Director, International Human Rights Clinic
Jessica Peake
Director, International and Comparative Law Program
Assistant Director, the Promise Institute for Human Rights
Alex Wang
Professor of Law