As Community Human Rights Fellow, Charlotte Finegold assists the Schell Center in promoting a vibrant human rights community and in developing human rights projects. She also supervises the Hope...
Faculty and Staff
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
Sari Bashi
Lecturer in Law (spring term) and Research Scholar in Law
Sari Bashi is a Lecturer in Law, Research Scholar in Law, and the Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School. She writes and lectures on international humanitarian law and...
Alisha Bjerregaard
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
Alisha Bjerregaard is a Schell Center Human Rights Fellow. Her work during and after law school has focused on advocating for women's rights. Bjerregaard earned her J.D. from Yale Law School,...
David Marshall
Visiting Human Rights Fellow (spring term)
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...
Tamar Ezer
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
Tamar Ezer is a Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow. She also currently serves as the Associate Director, Lecturer in Law, and Practitioner-in-Residence with the Human Rights Clinic at the...
Paul Linden-Retek
Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow
Paul Linden-Retek is a Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science, where his research focuses on the political...
Soli Özel
Tom and Andi Bernstein Fellow
Soli Özel is a Senior Lecturer at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. Currently a Tom and Andi Bernstein Fellow at the Schell Center, he was a visiting fellow at Institut Montaigne in Paris and...
Lowenstein Clinic Student Directors
Catherine Crooke
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Catherine Crooke is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she focuses on international human rights and refugee law. Prior to law school, Catherine worked at the International...
Dylan Kolhoff
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Dylan Kolhoff graduated with Honors from the College of William & Mary with a major in International Relations. He spent two years after graduation in China, first as a Teaching Fellow in...
Lowenstein Project Student Directors
Carolyn O'Connor
Lowenstein Project Student Director
Carolyn O’Connor is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she has spent her time working on human rights issues in the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East. Prior to law school,...
Liana Wang
Lowenstein Project Student Director
Liana Wang is a double major in Economics and Global Affairs in Yale College. She is also a part of the Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights, with a particular interest in studying...
Schell Center Student Directors
Carolyn O-Connor
Schell Center Student Director
Carolyn O’Connor is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she has spent her time working on human rights issues in the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East. Prior to law school,...
Sonya Schoenberger
Schell Center Student Director
Sonya Schoenberger is a second-year law student interested in human rights, environmental justice, and humanitarian action. Prior to law school, Sonya worked as part of the International Committee...
Yale College Liaisons
Madeline Batt
Yale College Liaison
Madeline Batt is a political science major and a member of the Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights' class of 2019. As an undergraduate assistant, she assists the Schell Center with...