Training & Co-learning

We seek to help bring about change in the societies in which we live and use the law as a means to achieve this change. Here, our vision of lawyering strongly diverges from what most lawyers learn in their studies. The education and training of future human rights lawyers are part of ECCHR's organizational philosophy. The Critical Legal Training curriculum encourages trainees, fellows, Referendar*innen (German trainee lawyers), partners and alumn* to engage with critical perspectives on the law, postcolonial theory, feminism and intersectionality. Since its establishment, over 400 lawyers from almost 50 countries have taken part in ECCHR's Critical Legal Training.

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Critical Legal Training

ECCHR's Critical Legal Training offers participants a unique platform for the theory and practice of international human rights law. We aim to develop and further a well-founded and critical analysis of the most pressing contemporary issues of law and society. If you have questions concerning the Critical Legal Training, please contact Marie Badarne: application@ecchr.eu

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Bertha Global Exchange

Training & Co-learning

ECCHR has been able to invite colleagues from international partner organizations to come to Berlin for a set period of time as part of an intensive exchange of experiences and know-how. Bertha Global Exchange Fellows are actively involved in ECCHR's day-to-day work and contribute to issues and cases that their sending organizations are also working on.

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Bertha Justice Fellows

Training & Co-learning

With the help of the Bertha Foundation ECCHR has the capacity to offer two-year fellowships to particularly qualified candidates from our alumn*. Bertha Justice Fellows are part of the global Bertha Justice Network comprised of organizations whose goal is to enforce human rights by legal means.

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Alumn* Network

Networks & Exchange

Since the establishment of ECCHR in 2008 nearly 400 young human rights lawyers from more than 40 countries have participated in our Critical Legal Training. Together they constitute our alumni group, and their numbers are now into the hundreds.

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Bertha Justice Network

Networks & Exchange

ECCHR is part of the Bertha Justice Network which is comprised of 17 organizations from all continents, Bertha Justice Partners, as well as Bertha Justice Fellows and alumn*.

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Scholarships: Kreuzberger Kinderstiftung

Training & Co-learning

Together with the Kreuzberger Kinderstiftung we offer young human rights lawyers with limited financial means the opportunity to gain professional experience in our day-to-day legal work.