Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the convicted gunmen from the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, is appealing his sentence of life without the possibility of parole to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Malvo was just seventeen when he served as…
On January 31, 2018, the WCL Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the International Human Rights Law Clinic, in partnership with the New Israel Fund, the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and Americans for Peace Now, held a…
On February 23rd, the Human Rights Brief hosted its inaugural Disability Rights Symposium in conjunction with the Washington College of Law’s (WCL) Disability Law Society. The first panel was titled “Immigration, Refugee Law, and Disability Rights” and featured Michael Tan…
Over a period of years, a discourse has been developing questioning the potential of the international human rights framework. International Human Rights Law (IHRL) is accused of failing to attain its aspirations and to be inclusive of diverse human experiences….
The United States government is failing its children. According to research published in the journal, Health Affairs, children in the United States are seventy times more likely to die before adulthood than children in other developed countries. In a survey…