Anjli Parrin, director of the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, has been named an Associate Clinical Professor of Law, effective July 1. This appointment recognizes Parrin’s outstanding contributions to clinical legal education, innovative scholarship, and her deep commitment to advancing justice and human rights worldwide.

Parrin joined the Law School in 2022, bringing experience in international human rights law, humanitarian advocacy, and impact litigation. Under her leadership, the students and faculty in the International Human Rights Clinic have expanded efforts to address the needs of vulnerable communities around the world. In particular, the clinic has supported efforts to investigate and prevent unlawful killings globally, stop the unlawful use of the death penalty, advance the rights of migrants and non-citizens, ensure justice in conflict, investigate mass atrocities, promote climate justice, and challenge discriminatory laws. 

In 2024, the clinic was involved in the making of a short film, “What is Owed: Taking the Climate Crisis to the World's Court,” that was featured in an exhibit in a museum (Architekturmuseum der TUM) in Munich. 

Parrin serves as an expert witness and has worked alongside forensic scientists to carry out complex war crime investigations, including for the International Criminal Court. She successfully proposed new law on exhumations for hybrid courts and provided trainings to judges, lawyers, police, gendarmerie, NGOs and victims associations on the law and science of suspicious death investigations.

“Anjli is a trailblazer in the global human rights field, and, alongside her students, her clinic tackles some of the most challenging problems worldwide,” said Erica Zunkel, director of the Law School’s experiential learning programs and of the Criminal Juvenile Justice Clinic. “She is also an outstanding clinical professor and student supervisor, and I’m thrilled to see her being promoted.”

Parrin holds a BS from the London School of Economics and an MS and JD from Columbia University. Prior to joining the Law School, she worked and taught at Columbia Law School, where she was the deputy director of the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic and the executive director of the Human Rights Institute.