Category: Scholarship

How do you protect against indirect discrimination?

HLS’s Human Rights Program convenes experts to explore the concept of indirect discrimination on the basis of religion In 2010,…

Gerald Neuman submits comments to State Department’s “Commission on Unalienable Rights”

Neuman challenges arguments that roll back human rights Professor Gerald L. Neuman, Co-Director of the Human Rights Program (HRP), filed…

Harvard Gazette: A global look at LGBT violence and bias

By Liz Mineo / Harvard Staff Writer Costa Rican magistrate Victor Madrigal-Borloz has served for the past 21 months as the…

WATCH: Victor Madrigal-Borloz Previews United Nations General Assembly Report

On October 17, 2019, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the Eleanor Roosevelt Senior Visiting Researcher with the Human Rights Program and the UN…

2018-2019 Visiting Fellow Spotlight on Alpha Sesay

By Elaine McArdle As a young person in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, Alpha Sesay knew little but war. He…

HRP’s 2018-2019 Annual Report

We are delighted to present HRP’s 2018-2019 Annual Report. The report showcases the global reach and impact of the Human…

What Counts as a Crime Against Humanity?

On Jan. 11-12, dozens of experts convened at Harvard Law School to provide commentary on draft articles for a future…

New Book: Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder, Edited by Gerald L. Neuman and Silja Voeneky

Gerald L. Neuman, HRP Co-Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and Silja Voeneky, Co-Director…

Spotlight Feature: HRP’s “Human Rights in a Time of Populism” Conference

This piece originally appeared as the spotlight feature on Harvard Law School’s homepage. The global impact of populist movements was the…

Conference preview: Gerald L. Neuman on “Human Rights in a Time of Populism”

Earlier this week, Gerald L. Neuman, Co-Director of the Human Rights Program (HRP), and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of…