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“The United States Will Need International Law”
A chapter by Gerald L. Neuman, HRP Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, titled “The United States Will Need International Law” is featured in the new collection America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance. In the wake of rising global authoritarianism and transnational megacorporations, Neuman warns that “As…
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HRP Associate Director Abadir Ibrahim Co-Authors Submission Calling on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to Recognize the Right to a Healthy Climate
Abadir Ibrahim, Associate Director of the Harvard Human Rights Program, together with Salma Waheedi, Executive Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, and Angela Hefti, Assistant Professor of Law at Florida International University, submitted written comments to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, in response to the Commission’s call for substantive inputs on the draft General Comment on…
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HRP Announces Recipients of 2026-2027 Henigson Fellowship
We are excited to announce that HRP has awarded its 2026-27 Henigson Fellowship to Namashya Karuna Arachchige LLM ‘26 and Tupalishe Mulwafu LLM’26. HRP’s post-graduate fellowships are designed to help launch the careers of students who have demonstrated great promise as human rights-engaged students and advocates while at HLS. Fellows are placed with human rights…
