Past Visiting Fellows
María Cecilia Ercole was the Wasserstein Fellow in Residence with the Human Rights Program and the Office of Public Interest…
Sandra Fahy is an associate professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Graduate Program in Global…
Dr. Rashad Ibadov is the Director of the Law Program at ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan and a visiting professor of…
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is Assistant Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of Murcia, Spain. She holds a…
Dr. Anton Burkov is the Chair of the Center of European Law and Strategic Litigation at the University of Humanities,…
Adejoké Babington-Ashaye is the OPIA / HRP Wasserstein Fellow for the 2019-2020 year. She is a versatile lawyer with over…
Abrash has been working in human rights since 1992, first for the International Human Rights Law Group and then as…
Dohmes-Ockenfels is a judge in Germany. She has a Ph. D. in law from Humboldt University. At HRP, she expanded…
Drew is a lecturer in public international law at Glasgow University in Scotland. At HRP, she pursued research on the…
Le Magueresse is a president of the European Association Against Violence toward Women in the Workplace (Association Europeene contre les…
McGoldrick is a professor of Public International Law and Director of the International and European Law Unit at the Faculty…
Okafor is a Nigerian academic now teaching public international law and human rights law at York University in Canada. He…
Ravi is the director and editor of The Hindu, the leading English language newspaper in India. He has worked in…
Sebba is an associate professor at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University and is on the faculty…
Tadros was a Visiting Scholar at the Women’s Department at Northeastern University and taught human rights in the Political Science…
Yotoriyama is an associate professor of education at Niigata University in Japan, where he specializes in educational law and children’s…
Bantekas is an international law scholar at the University of Westminster, where he was recently named Reader. Bantekas is a…
Soriano, as a reserach fellow at the Institute for European Legal Studies of the University of Liege (Belgium), has researched…
Moshe Cohen-Eliya is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. While at Harvard, Moshe analyzed the extent…
Hou is the founder of an NGO called Internal Migrant Workers Legal Aid and Research Center (IMW). She currently holds…
Ikhariale is a professor and former dean of law at Lagos State University. He is a member of the board…
Kapur is a lawyer and the co-director of Sakshi, an NGO that works on issues of gender and the courts…
La Forest is a dean and professor of law at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. She also works…
Lee is a professor of law at Kookmin University in Seoul. He is also an attorney and legal scholar in…
McEvoy is a reader in law at the School of Law, Queen’s University of Belfast. He conducted a major comparative…
Mwasaru chairs the Board of the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) and directs the Kwale Rural Support Program. While at…
Nshala is a leading rights activist in Tanzania and an alumnus of HLS, where he received his LL.M. degree in…
Pollman is maître de conférences of public law and political science at Metz University, France. He has worked in the…
Quashigah is a senior lecturer with the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana. At Harvard, he developed guidelines that would…
Raghavan is the former director of the Central Bureau of Investigation in New Delhi. He is also an experienced teacher…
Seutcheu has vast experience in the United Nations human rights system, in particular with the Office of the High Commissioner…
Shalakany has taught law at Cairo University Faculty since 1993, where he now serves as an associate professor of law….
Shany is an Israeli scholar who serves as a law lecturer in the Academic College of Management, Rishon Le Zion,…
Shkirat is a Palestinian lawyer and the general director and co-founder of LAW, a non-governmental organization that specializes in environmental…
Waters graduated from Harvard Law School in 1999. Prior to, and after his graduation, Waters has worked on issues of…
Col. Kenneth Watkin is currently a Deputy Judge Advocate General/Operations to the Canadian Forces. In 1998, he participated as a…
Arakaki has worked in refugee law and development for over a decade. He served as an associate legal officer for…
Hyo-Je Cho is Associate Professor of Human Rights and Civil Society Studies, SungKongHoe University in Seoul, Korea. He is well…
Dodge is a senior federal public prosecutor in Brasilia whose work focuses on combating forced labor and other rights abuses…
Gloppen is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway and heads the “Courts in Transition” research programme at…
Niels Erik Hansen is the Executive Director of Documentation and Advisory Centre on Racial Discrimination (DACoRD) and an associate Professor…
Happold teaches international and constitutional law at the University of Nottingham. He has degrees from the universities of Oxford and…
Mehrangiz Kar is an attorney, writer, and activist working toward the promotion of democracy, rule of law, and human rights…
Julita Lemgruber is a sociologist, former Director of the Prison System and former Police Ombudsman in the State of Rio…
Rashida Manjoo was a former Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow with HRP. She is an Advocate of the High Court of South…
Mansour is an Egyptian national and a leading scholar on the Koran, and in particular, Islamic law, democracy and human…
Murungi has served as Director of Urgent Action Fund-Africa since its formation in 2001. Since 1998, she has also served…
Joseph Mwaura is a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast (UK). He teaches and researches in the areas of…
Norchi is a human rights advocate, educator and counselor who has worked in twenty-two countries. He was founder and director…
Thomas Pegram served as the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) Fellow with HRP. His doctorate research was on national human…
Rahiab is an Afghan national and former researcher for Human Rights Watch in Afghanistan. Habib studied law at the Balkh…
Galit Sarfaty holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, and is finishing her Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Chicago…
Sottiaux is a post-doctoral researcher at the law faculty of the University of Antwerp (Belgium), and a member of the…
Guglielmo Verdirame is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre…
Waldorf is a graduate of Harvard Law School (1989) and the director of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) field office…
Gary Wilder is an associate professor of history at Pomona College. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University…
Mark Muller is a senior barrister at Garden Court Chambers specializing in public international law, human rights law, terrorism, proscription,…
Ludovic Hennebel is Research Professor at the Fund for Scientific Research (F.N.R.S., Belgium) and member of the Perelman Centre of…
Hiromi Hosoya is currently on sabbatical from Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan, where she is a professor of anthropology specializing in…
David Marshall works with the United Nations, most recently deployed to South Sudan as the acting Director of the Rule…
Birtukan Mideksa will be the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow with a joint appointment with W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. A former judge…
Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian attorney and former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization. In 2005, she was appointed legal…
Bernard Duhaime is a Canadian professor of public international law at the University of Québec in Montreal (UQAM). He teaches…
Christof Heyns is Professor of Human Rights Law and Co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa…
Suzanne Egan is a lecturer in International and European Human Rights Law at the School of Law in University College…
Pill-Kyu Hwang is a human rights lawyer in the only non-profit full-time public interest lawyers’ group in Korea, GONGGAM, where…
A former fellow at Columbia Law School, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Scott Long is the founding and former…
Christian Salazar Volkmann is working as the Representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in…
Everaldo Lamprea is a J.S.D. candidate at Stanford Law School and full-time professor (on leave) at Los Andes Law School,…
Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and Law and Society at New York University. Her recent books include Colonizing Hawai‘i: The…
Alicia Ely Yamin is a Joseph H. Flom Fellow on Global Health and Human Rights at Harvard Law School’s Human…
Braverman is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. While at the Human Rights Program, her research focused…
Chase is an Assistant Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs at Occidental College. He holds a Ph.D. from The Fletcher…
Professor Davis (September 2008-June 2009) teaches Women’s Rights Lawyering, Constitutional Law and Professional Responsibility at Northeastern University School of Law….
Aeyal Gross is a professor and member of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. He holds an LL.B….
Sharanjeet Parmar is an international human rights lawyer, with ten years of experience working on the rights of women and…
Vanice Lírio do Valle is a municipal tenured public lawyer, representing the Rio de Janeiro City Hall, with a large…
Commander Ian Park is a barrister and serving officer in the United Kingdom Royal Navy. Called to the bar of…
Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky is Co-Director of the Institute for Public Law and is a Professor of Public International Law,…
Teng Biao is a Lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, where he specializes in human rights,…
Mark Gould is Professor of Sociology at Haverford College. He has a B.A. in sociology from Reed College and a…
Machiko Kanetake is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. Her areas…
Su-ming Khoo is a Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology and Vice-Dean (Internationalization) for the College of…
Nina H. B. Jørgensen is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong….
Benjamin Zawacki is a Bangkok-based lawyer and researcher, and author of Thailand: Shifting Ground Between the US and a Rising…
Rangita De Silva de Alwis, SJD ’97, is the inaugural Director of the Global Women’s Leadership Initiative at the Woodrow…
Fergal Gaynor is an international criminal lawyer. He has been counsel for the victims in Prosecutor v. Uhuru Kenyatta at…
Paola Bergallo is a law professor at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her areas of work and…
Atsushi Kondo is currently on sabbatical from Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, where he is a Professor of Constitutional Law. He…
Errol Mendes is a Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and an advisor to governments, civil society groups,…
Paul O’Connell is a Reader in Law at SOAS, University of London. His research and teaching focus on public law,…
Daniel Rietiker is a lecturer in public international law at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and a senior lawyer…
Jure Vidmar holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, where he is Research…
Shane Darcy is a lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway and Director of…
Marlene Gerber Fried is senior advisor to the President of Hampshire College and faculty director of the Civil Liberties and…
Ana Bracic is both a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and an Affiliate…
Dr. Odongo is Senior Program Officer with the Human Rights Program at the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. In his current role,…
Dr. Tony Ellis is a New Zealand Human Rights Barrister in Blackstone Chambers. His approach is comparative and international. He…
Jong Chul Kim is the founder and program director for the public interest lawyers’ organization, Advocates for Public Interest Law…
Dr. Ralph Wilde is a Reader at University College London’s Faculty of Laws. He holds a Ph.D. and an LL.M….
Sabrina Mahtani was the OPIA / HRP Wasserstein Fellow for the 2018-2019 year. She is a human rights lawyer from…
Alpha Sesay is an Advocacy Officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), where he works on promoting human rights…
Priyanka Chirimar, OPIA/HRP Wasserstein Fellow-in-residence, joined OPIA and HRP for the 2017-2018 year. Priyanka Chirimar is a human rights attorney…
Mr. Yasser Latif Hamdani is an Advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan at HQM Chambers of Barristers and Advocates…
Dr. Tally Kritzman-Amir is a Senior Lecturer of immigration and international law at the College of Law and Business, Israel….
Yitayew Alemayehu is a lawyer with graduate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and…
Jimena Reyes is a human rights attorney and FIDH’s director for the Americas since June 2003. She has conducted investigations…
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh is a barrister at Matrix Chambers in London, specializing in public international law, human rights law, terrorism…
Marie-Luisa Frick holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck and is currently Assistant Professor there at the…
Antti Korkeakivi, a lawyer with degrees from Helsinki and Columbia Law Schools, is the Chief of the Indigenous Peoples and…
Joanne Neenan is a Senior Assistant Legal Adviser at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She has held legal and…
Yi-Li Lee obtained her Ph.D from National Taiwan University College of Law in August 2014 and has since served as a…
Sandra Brunnegger is a Fellow in Law and Anthropology and Lecturer at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where she is also…
Juan Pablo Calderon-Meza is a human rights attorney whose practice specializes in international human rights advocacy and litigation. He clerked…
María Díaz Crego holds a Ph.D in Law (Doctor Europeus) from the Complutense University in Madrid (Spain), conducting part of…