As Community Human Rights Fellow, Madeline Batt assists the Schell Center in promoting a vibrant human rights community and in developing human rights projects. Her interests include human rights...
Faculty and Staff
Alisha Bjerregaard
Clinical Lecturer in Law
Alisha Bjerregaard is a Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. Her work during and after law school has focused on advocating for women's rights. Bjerregaard earned her J.D. from Yale Law...
Paul W. Kahn
Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
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...
Hope R. Metcalf
Clinical Lecturer in Law; Research Scholar in Law; and Executive Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
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. In January 2017, she...
James J. Silk
Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights; Director, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic; and Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
James J. Silk is the Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights at Yale Law School, where he teaches the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. He is director of the Law School’s...
Ryan Thoreson
Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and Robert M. Cover-Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights
Ryan Thoreson is a Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and Robert M. Cover-Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights at Yale Law School. He is also a...
Fellows
Tom Andrews
Robina Senior Human Rights Fellow
Tom Andrews is the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. A former member of the US...
David Marshall
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
David Marshall, a human rights lawyer, was recently the head of the Accountability and the Administration of Justice section in the UN mission in Iraq where he led the UN’s efforts to monitor the...
Alfred Brownell
Tom & Andi Bernstein Visiting Human Rights Fellow
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...
Paul Linden-Retek
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
Paul Linden-Retek is a Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School and a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in Political...
Mohammad “Musa” Mahmodi
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
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’...
Hyppolite Ntigurirwa
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
Hyppolite Ntigurirwa is an artist, researcher, and founder of Be the Peace, an organization focused on halting the intergenerational transmission of hate and promoting cross-generational healing....
Lowenstein Clinic Student Directors
Sarah Bernardo
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Sarah Bernardo is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Through her work with the Lowenstein Clinic, Sarah has researched the mental harm element of genocide under international law and...
Dianne Lake
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Dianne Lake is a third-year J.D. Candidate at Yale Law School originally from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Her work in the clinic has included research and investigation for strategic litigation in...
Jessica Tueller
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Jessica Tueller is a third-year law student who is interested in international human rights law and how it can be used to advance feminist causes in Latin America. She has previously worked at the...
Lowenstein Project Student Directors
Ella Fanger
Lowenstein Project Student Director
Ella Fanger is an Ethics, Politics, and Economics major in Yale College, where she focuses on the nexus of incarceration, immigration, and surveillance policy. She has previously worked with the...
Fiza Khan
Lowenstein Project Student Director
Fiza Khan is a second-year law student with an interest in international law and human rights. Before law school, Fiza worked as a legal assistant at a Los Angeles based firm, and was additionally...
Schell Center Student Leadership
Luke Connell
Schell Center Student Director
Luke Connell is a second-year law student who is interested in international human rights law with a focus on human mobility in Latin America. He has interned with Amnesty International – Mexico...
Larissa Jimenez
Student Communications Coordinator & Undergraduate Assistant
Larissa Jimenez assists with the administration of the Schell Center, with a focus on expanding opportunities for students outside the law school to engage with its programming. She develops...
Emma Montoya
Schell Center Student Director
Emma Montoya is a second-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she is focusing on international law. During her time in law school, she has worked on issues of international human rights...
Anna Wherry
Schell Center Student Director
Anna Wherry is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School and PhD student in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. At Yale she has worked on sex worker health and rights, public defense,...