Shima Bozorgi is pursuing her S.J.D. from American University Washington College of Law. She is working on her dissertation, reviewing the nexus of human rights and national security in the Middle East. After earning her law degree from the University of Tehran, Shima worked on children’s rights and child labor issues. She has over ten years of ex…

Ezra Rosser is a Professor at American University Washington College of Law. He has taught courses in Federal Indian Law, Poverty Law, Land Use, Housing Law, Wills, Trusts, & Estates, and Property Law. He is the author of A Nation Within: Navajo Land and Economic Development published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. He is a past chair of the…

Marija Jovanović is an Associate Professor at the Essex Law School in the UK. Her research focuses on modern slavery and its intersection with different legal regimes, such as human rights law, criminal law, labour law, immigration law, and international trade and business regulation. She is the author of State Responsibility for ‘Modern Slavery’ i…

Join us for a conversation with Professor of Law David Snyder on the intersection of international contracts, commercial law, and human rights. In addition to being a professor of law at the Washington College of Law and the director of the Business Law Program, Professor Snyder is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the In…

Join us for a conversation with Humphrey Fellow and Russian attorney Polina Sidelnikova for an in-depth discussion of human rights in Russia in the wake of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

Caroline Ackerman serves as Managing Attorney of Maryland cases and Special Projects at the Amara Legal Center, which provides free legal services to survivors of sex trafficking. Prior to working at Amara, she was an attorney at the New York City Administration for Children's Services. We spoke with Ms. Ackerman about common misconceptions people …

Darren Domah provides legal counsel for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Liberia, and serves as a legal advisor to the Maryland Oil Palm Plantation and the Cavalla Rubber Plantation in West Africa. He is currently a Humphrey Fellow at Washington College of Law. We spoke with Mr. Domah about Liberia's turbulent past and why the country so d…

Arturo Castellanos is a Policy and Advocacy Associate at the National Immigration Forum. We spoke with him about the subject of his dissertation, the Right of Suffrage of Shosics (Non-Citizens) in the United States, and discussed the past, present, and future status of voting rights for non-citizens in America. To access Arturo's dissertation, the …

We sit down with Professor Robert Goldman, Louis C. James Scholar at the American University Washington College of Law, where Professor Goldman also serves as Faculty Director of the War Crimes Research Office and Co-Director of WCL’s Center For Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In addition to teaching, practicing, and writing in the areas of Inte…

We sit down with Professor Herman Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of Law at the American University Washington College of Law, whose decades-long career has focused on issues of civil rights and civil liberties as they have played out in courts and prisons across the globe. He founded, among other causes, the ACLU Prison Project and formerly chaired t…

We sit down with Professor Juan Méndez, former Special Rapporteur on Torture and professor of International Human Rights at the American University Washington College of Law, where he also leads the Anti-Torture Initiative as Faculty Director with WCL’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Professor Méndez shares with us his own story of g…

We sit down with Professor Macarena Saez, now Executive Director of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, whose main areas of research are the role of sexual orientation and gender identity in family law, and comparative regulations of sex as an economic activity. Professor Saez shares her experience both professionally and personally …

We sit down with Dr. Claudio Grossman, former chairperson of the UN Committee Against Torture and former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, who also served as the Dean of American University Washington College of Law for 21 years. Professor Grossman shares his journey and experiences as a political refugee fleeing Chile in …