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Liberian public interest lawyer and land rights advocate Alfred Brownell spoke at the Law School on November 9, 2018, about his work defending vulnerable communities and the environment in West Africa.

At the Human Rights Workshop on November 8, 2018, attorney and author Rafia Zakaria led a critical discussion about Western attempts to empower women in the Global South.

In 2014, the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a nonprofit human rights law firm based in Lahore, published a report documenting the routine abuse of detainees and suspects by the police force in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The project marked the beginning of a longstanding collaboration between the Schell Center and JPP that has led to the public revelation of further human rights abuses. The partnership, as emphasized by Zainab Malik, JPP’s Advocacy and Policy Manager, has been “critical” to JPP’s advocacy strategy on the domestic and international...

The Schell Center hosted Emi Mahmoud the 2015 World Poetry Slam champion and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, who performed poems from her book and discussed her activism.

Sarah Belal, founder of Justice Project Pakistan, spoke at the Law School on October 12, 2018 about criminal justice reform in Pakistan.

Efrén C. Olivares ’08, the Racial and Economic Justice Program Director at the Texas Civil Rights Project, spoke at the Human Rights Workshop on October 18, 2018.

Yarimar Bonilla spoke at the Human Rights Workship on October 11, 2018 about the relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

At the Human Rights Workshop on September 27, James Loeffler presented his new book, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century.

On September 26, former Lowenstein Clinic student Jason File ’04 returned to Yale Law School to speak about international criminal law—not just as a lawyer, but also as an artist.

The Human Rights Workshop on September 22 featured two directors of the Open Society Foundations (OSF).