The Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic

Berkeley Law Voices Carry · Apr 23, 2026 · 35m

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Chancellor’s Clinical Professor Laurel E. Fletcher, the founding director of the Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic (GRIL), and Valentina Rozo Angel, the clinic’s Data and Technology Clinical Supervisor.

GRIL, which enrolled its first cohort of students last year, operates at the crossroads of human rights and digital technology, developing and using data-driven tools to bolster local advocacy, policy, and social change — at home and abroad — in support of human rights defenders and victims. The clinic grew out of Fletcher’s work over more than…