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John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice | NYU School of Law Philip Alston is the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and a leading global scholar on human rights. He has conducted fact-finding in dozens of countries and has served on numerous UN bodies. From 2004 to 2010, he was UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, and since 2014 he has served as UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He is Co-Chair and Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. |
Deputy Director, Stern Center for Business and Human Rights; Adjunct Professor Center for Business and Human Rights | NYU Stern; NYU Law Paul Barrett joined the Center as deputy director in September 2017 after spending more than three decades as a journalist and author focusing on the intersection of business, law, and society. Most recently, Paul worked for 12 years for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, where he served at different times as the editor of an award-winning investigative team and a writer covering topics such as energy and the environment, military procurement, and the civilian firearm industry. |
Executive Director, U.S.-Asia Law Institute; Adjunct Professor U.S.-Asia Law Institute | NYU School of Law Ira Belkin writes and teaches extensively on law and rights issues in China, and oversees U.S.-Asia Law Institute’s mission to promote the rule of law and human rights in Asia. Previously, as a program officer at Ford Foundation, he helped Chinese institutions strengthen the rule of law in China and enhance the protection of citizens' rights. |
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Professor; Faculty Director U.S.-Asia Law Institute U.S.-Asia Law Institute | NYU School of Law Jerome Cohen is a leading American expert on Chinese law and government, and focuses his research on criminal justice reform, human rights, and the role of international law relating to China and Taiwan. He is Faculty Director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. |
Deputy Director Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights | NYU School of Law Sukti Dhital is a human rights lawyer with significant experience in the field of economic and social rights. Previously she was the Executive Director and Co- founder of Nazdeek, a legal empowerment organization in India. She is a frequent speaker on issues concerning gender equality, economic and social rights, and legal empowerment. |
Associate Director Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia is an Associate Director at NYU's Public Interest Law Center, where she runs the intensive pro bono research program, which provides research support to domestic and international non-profits working in the areas of human rights, international law and development. Prior to joining PILC, Miriam was a senior legal counsel to the Palau National Congress, where she advised the members of Congress on human rights issues and Palau's obligations under international law. |
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Haiti Project Director; Staff Attorney Center for Human Rights and Global Justice | NYU Law Ellie Happel directs the Global Justice Clinic’s Haiti Project, Preventing Violations and Advancing Human Rights in Haiti’s Emerging Mining Sector. As of the summer of 2017, Ellie is also a Staff Attorney with the Global Justice Clinic, where she is working with students to advocate for the rights of the Haitian immigrant community in New York. Prior to law school, Ellie worked in environmental justice and public health in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, and Washington, D.C. |
Director, Graduate Lawyering Program Mary Holland is Director of the Graduate Legal Skills Program at New York University School of Law. Educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities, Holland has worked in international public and private law. Prior to joining NYU, Holland worked worked at a major U.S. human rights advocacy organization as Director of its European Program. She has also taught international law courses at Columbia Law School and has served as a consultant to the Aspen Institute Justice and Society Program. |
Executive Director, China and International Human Rights Law Research Program; Adjunct Professor Human Rights in China; NYU School of Law Sharon Hom focuses her research on China’s compliance with international norms and obligations and regulation of the Internet in China. She is also the Executive Director of Human Rights in China, and leads the organization’s advocacy and strategic policy engagement with NGOs, governments, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. |
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Acting Assistant Professor Maryam Jamshidi is a lawyer and writer with over ten years of experience working on issues relating to the Middle East and North Africa. She has written various academic articles and published a book on transitional justice and the Arab world. Her current scholarship examines civil claims brought by private individuals against third-parties for providing material support to terrorism, and how these claims replicate many of the shortfalls of the legal "War on Terror." |
Faculty Director, CHRGJ; Professor Department of Anthroplogy | NYU College of Arts and Sciences; Center for Human Rights and Global Justice | NYU School of Law Professor Merry's research on human rights examines the process by which human rights ideas are interpreted in vernacular terms that are relevant to everyday life in communities around the world. Her specialty is the anthropology of law, and she has done research on courts and disputing in the USA, on law and American colonialism in Hawai’i, on gender violence and human rights, and on the role of new information technologies for human rights monitoring. |
Global Professor Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a legal anthropologist, specializing in Islamic law, gender and development, and a founding member of the Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family. She has published books on Islamic family law in Iran and Morocco, Iranian clerical discourses on gender, Islamic reformist thinkers, and the revival of zina laws. She has also co-directed two award-winning feature-length documentary films on Iran. |
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Scholar-in-Residence Center for Human Rights and Global Justice | NYU Law Lucia Nader is a Brazilian human rights and civil society NGOs expert, and is currently a visiting scholar with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. Previously she was a fellow with the Open Society Foundations investigating how professional civil society organizations are dealing with trends of contemporary societies - a project called Solid Organizations in a Liquid World. Before that, she was the Executive Director of Conectas Human Rights. |
Executive Director Center for Human Rights and Global Justice | NYU Law Deborah Popowski research interests include institutional vulnerability to capture by the national security state; accountability ethics; the role of media and the arts in shifting attitudes towards human rights; and the incorporation of testimony and performance into legal pedagogy. Previously she taught human rights as a lecturer and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School. |
Legal Director Center for Human Rights and Global Justice | NYU Law Nikki Reisch’s work focuses on social and economic rights, with an emphasis on corporate accountability, economic inequality and environmental justice. Prior to studying law, she worked as an advocate with non- governmental organizations monitoring the effects of international financial and development institutions on communities in the Global South. |
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Professor of Clinical Law;
Faculty Director, CHRGJ;
Director, Global Justice Clinic;
Faculty Director, Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights & Center for Human Rights and Global Justice | NYU Law Margaret Satterthwaite’s research interests include the use of data and data visualization for human rights advocacy, methodological innovation in human rights, and the well-being and mental health of human rights workers. She has worked for a variety of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and the Commission Nationale de Verité et de Justice (Haitian Truth and Justice Commission), and has authored or co-authored more than a dozen human rights reports. |
Executive Director Center on Race, Inequality and the Law | NYU Law Vincent Southerland has dedicated his career to advancing racial justice and civil rights. He comes to NYU Law after serving as an Assistant Federal Public Defender, Senior Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a Staff Attorney at The Bronx Defenders, a Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, and a law clerk to two federal judges. |
Acting Assistant Professor Rachel Wechsler is an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering. She is in the final stages of her doctorate in Criminology at the University of Oxford, which focuses on sex trafficking victims' experiences with the criminal justice system through the lens of human rights. Prior to commencing her doctoral studies, she practiced as a litigator at Latham & Watkins LLP in New York, where she chaired the Pro Bono Asylum Program. |
