2023 CLEA Student Awards for Clinics and Externships: UC Berkeley’s Anthony Ghaly

The Clinical Legal Education Association invites law schools to nominate students as their Outstanding Clinic Student or Team and Outstanding Externship student. This series includes submissions from law schools celebrating their outstanding clinic and externship students. 

The Berkeley Law CLEA Outstanding Clinical Student Award goes to Anthony Ghaly. 

In the International Human Rights Law Clinic Anthony demonstrated excellence across a range of advocacy projects including providing legal support to a UN human rights mechanism assessing the potential negative human rights consequences of a nation’s new counter-terrorism financing law. He also conducted briefings with UN diplomats and is filing an UN human rights petition regarding targeted repression by Vietnam of journalists and human rights activists. Over the course of his four semesters in clinic Anthony has forged meaningful and trusting relationships with clients and his peers, one of whom describes him as “a wonderful team member and… a very reflective person who is committed to becoming the best advocate he can be.”