Student Experience
The Clinic strives to provide students a generative and supportive environment to learn, reflect, experiment, and grow, while contributing to the work of human rights advocates and conflict resolution practitioners around the globe. The Clinic aims to create a space where all students are able to bring their full selves and participate in all aspects of the Clinic.
Given the collaborative nature of human rights work, the Clinic intentionally fosters building community and sustained relationships between students, supervisors, partners and Clinic alumni.
Students are empowered to take ownership of all stages of their projects, from partner engagement to identifying, sequencing, and implementing advocacy strategies. Throughout this process, students receive guidance, feedback, and mentorship that accounts for different learning styles and that enables individual, peer-to-peer, and community learning. The Clinic also connects students to mentors in their areas of interest within the human rights and conflict resolution fields.
The Clinic is easily the most significant learning experience I have had while at Stanford. This experience helped me truly appreciate the finer details of client- and community-centered lawyering. I left the clinic feeling extremely proud to have assisted our partners in a way they felt was meaningful and impactful.
Roshan Natarajan, JD '24
My time in Clinic has been hands down the best part of law school. Our supervisors work tirelessly to put together incredible projects with amazing partner organizations all over the world. Throughout the quarter, they laughed with us, they pushed us to grow both as human rights advocates and as people, and they provided some of the kindest and most supportive mentorship I have ever experienced. Law school can be an extremely intense place, and I feel so grateful that now I have the IHRCRC community to lean on for the rest of my time at Stanford and beyond.
Erin Williams, JD '25
The talented instructors who lead Stanford’s International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic empowered me as an advocate and attorney. My clinic cohort worked on projects across three continents, each of which served as an unparalleled learning opportunity for students. And through years-long partnerships with leading organizations, we were able to deliver for those we worked alongside.
Hank Sparks, JD '25