The Levitt Justice Lab F2023: Human Rights and Civil Rights

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Description The Levitt Justice Lab includes four classes taken simultaneously, including an internship, observation, and reflection course. This coming Fall term the Lab’s topic will be Human Rights and Civil Rights. How have human rights developed? How are they defined and who enforces them? These questions are immediately relevant to migrant and refugee populations, the movement for racial justice, the status of indigenous populations, as well as the protection of civilians in times of war. Most basically, the study of human rights asks how we can guarantee personal dignity and the ability of all people to live free from persecution, discrimination, and bias. In Fall ’23, the Justice Lab will take up these questions historically and legally at the international, national, and local levels. The experiential course (GOVT/PPOL 274) includes a half-day per week internship/observation with local agencies concerned with human and civil rights arranged by the Levitt Center with a community partner. The Justice Lab is a set of four courses, taken together during a single term, organized around a specific theme. The four instructors in the Lab work together to coordinate syllabi and assig...