Faculty and Staff
Maddy Corson provides administrative and organizational support for the Schell Center. As an undergraduate assistant, her responsibilities...
Claudia Flores is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Director of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She is also Director of the Law School’s Orville H....
Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. Professor Kahn teaches in...
As an undergraduate liaison, Ruth Lee supports the Schell Center in promoting the human rights sphere throughout the undergraduate college. Her duties encompass tasks such...
Hope Metcalf is the Executive Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights Law and co-teaches the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She also co-founded...
James J. Silk is the Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights at Yale Law School, where he is also director of the Law School’s Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. He...
As Community Human Rights Fellow, Shannon Sommers assists the Schell Center in promoting a vibrant human rights community and in developing human rights projects. She is interested in the...
Fellows
Tom Andrews is the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. A former member of the US...
Rayhan Asat is an internationally recognized human rights lawyer and a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council.
A graduate of Harvard Law School and former anti-corruption...
Alfred Brownell is an internationally recognized environmental rights activist and lawyer from Liberia. Brownell has advocated for more than two decades to protect the environment and human rights...
Matthew Bugher is a Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School and the Research Director for the Myanmar Human Rights Project.
With a long-term focus on Southeast Asia,...
Christian Clark is a cartoonist (Washington Post, Financial Times, Toronto Star, Guardian, etc.) and two-time Emmy Award-winning writer (Sesame Street) who has written and/or...
Janine di Giovanni is the Executive Director and co-Founder of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine that documents atrocities and helps build cases for international mechanisms....
Musa is a Research Fellow in Law at the Schell Centre for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. His research and work focuses on accountability, transitional justice, victims’...
Daniel Bonilla Maldonado is a Visiting Professor of Law and Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and a Full Professor at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)....
The James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and longtime Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law, Leila Nadya Sadat has served as...
Marco Wan (BA Yale, BA(Hons)/MA Cambridge, LLM Harvard, PhD Cambridge) is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He is a scholar of...
Lowenstein Clinic Student Directors
Alaa Hachem (she/her) is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School interested in international human rights and...
Helen Malley (she/her) is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Through her work with the clinic, Helen has co-written a submission to the U.N. Expert Mechanism...
Laura Roberts (she/her) is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. As a member of the clinic, she has worked on projects aimed at securing reparations for civilian...
Gabriela Guimaraes Weldon is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School who is primarily focused on economic, social, cultural, and...
Schell Center Student Directors
Ebelechukwu Eseka (she/her) is a Nigerian-Ghanaian immigrant and a second-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. As a member of the Immigrant Justice...
Philsan (Philly) Isaak is a second-year J.D. student at Yale Law School. She is interested in the role of international law and international...
Chisato Kimura (she/they) is a second-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. She is interested in advancing social justice using a human rights framework, especially in...
Chloe Miller is a second-year J.D. student at Yale Law School. She is most interested in studying the intersection of economic rights, transnational justice, and third...