Human Rights Policy Legal Clinic
2026 Special Focus: Health and Human Rights
7 – 17 July 2026
Registration is open until 26 June 2026.
Face-to-face programme in Olomouc: 7 – 17 July 2026 (arrival on 6 July and departure on 17 July or on 18 July)
ECTS credits: Students can earn up to 5 ECTS credits for active participation
Price:
€ 490 per participant (participants are responsible for arranging their travel and accommodation)
You may use Erasmus+ funding for your participation within the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) framework. In this case, please make sure to verify with your home university that you are eligible for the Erasmus+ grant and that your institution can nominate you by 25 June 2026.
At the same time, students from Aurora partner universities are also welcome to attend outside the BIP framework. For these students, participation in the academic programme is free of charge.
Price includes:
- Academic programme enrolment
- Reading and welcome pack
- Field trip to Health Lab
- Interactions with special lecturers and guests
- Two coffee breaks and lunch each day
- Exciting social activities (Board Games Evening, Movie night, Barbecue)
Contact: Martin Verner: martin.verner@upol.cz
Programme details
Legal clinics are a special form of legal education, combining theory and practice, designed to teach not only knowledge, but also develop skills and instill values, and promote social justice. Legal clinics exist in many forms. One of them is a Policy legal clinic, where students instead of helping individual clients, focus on existing legal problems from a policy perspective, usually by analysis of legal regulation and its practical application, identifying problems and deficiencies, and suggesting general measures, such as changes to legal regulation or other policy-oriented activities, to address the problem.
In summer of 2026, Palacký University, Faculty of Law, would like to invite you to experience the Third Installment of Human Rights Policy Legal Clinic Summer School. The Human Rights Policy Legal Clinic course, which normally takes a full semester, will be condensed into a two-week intensive Summer School schedule. Participants of the first Human Rights Policy Legal Clinic Summer School in 2023 and the second in 2024 appreciated that the course equipped them with the necessary tools to identify deficiencies in human rights protection and to suggest measures and legal changes to address the problems. They valued the opportunity to meet a wide variety of professionals with diverse backgrounds working on human rights across many settings.
In 2026, the Human Rights Policy Legal Clinic will have a special focus on human rights related to health and framed within the current context – from modern technologies, data privacy, assistive technologies, pro-bono medicine, to triage, discrimination, protection of people with disabilities, and environmental rights related to health.
Learning outcomes: Summer Law School will allow the participants to develop:
- knowledge of international, European, and comparative human rights law (proportionality, horizontal effect, tension between universalism and particularism, equality, positive and negative obligations) and specific rights (human dignity, privacy, right to life, health and health care, socio-economic rights, environmental rights),
- develop a wide range of analytical, creative, problem-solving, legal writing, and critical thinking skills, increase their sensitivity to human rights issues in general, but specifically in a cross-cultural context, and
- understand the importance of human rights monitoring, policing, and advocacy.
During the two weeks of the Summer Law School, participants will engage in interactive sessions with human rights experts from various fields and backgrounds (attorneys, judges, human rights activists), developing their knowledge and relevant skills, which they will use over the course of the whole summer school when working in teams on analytical human rights policy projects, starting from defining and structuring the analyzed problem, researching and discussing it, presenting to others and writing and receiving feedback to their policy paper.
