Category: Staff

Impeachment Can Vindicate Human Rights

Impeachment is an extraordinary procedure for responding to abuse of power by government. Is legislative trial of elected officials consistent with…

Coming to grips with populism after Trump

Gerald L. Neuman, Human Rights Program Co-Director, reflected on populism and human rights in a post-Trump landscape for Open Global…

Training the next generation of international women’s rights advocates

Since joining Harvard Law School, Salma Waheedi, a clinical instructor and lecturer on law in the International Human Rights Clinic,…

Mourning the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

With the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the nation and the world have lost a champion of human equality….

The Supreme Court’s Attack on Habeas Corpus in DHS v. Thuraissigiam

Gerald L. Neuman, Human Rights Program Co-Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, contributed a…

WATCH: Victor Madrigal-Borloz Argues for Conversion Therapy Ban

In July, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender…

Amicus brief challenges public health asylum limits

Gerald L. Neuman, Co-Director of the Human Rights Program, joined immigration and refugee scholars during June in an amicus brief…

Human Rights in a Time of Populism & COVID-19

A new volume “Human Rights in a Time of Populism” edited by Gerald L. Neuman ’80 brings together reflections from a range of…

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…