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
Kristine E. Beckerle
Clinical Lecturer in Law
Kristine Beckerle is the Cover-Lowenstein Fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, a Clinical Lecturer in Law, and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law...
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...
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...
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...
Rayhan Asat
Tom and Andi Bernstein Visiting Human Rights Fellow
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...
David Marshall
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
David Marshall is the Justice Advisor to the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program at Global Affairs Canada. Prior to joining government, he was the head of the Accountability and 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...
Christian Clark
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
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...
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’...
Roger Polack
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow
Roger Polack is a Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School and the Senior Legal Counsel for the Myanmar Human Rights Project.
Roger has extensive experience working on...
Lowenstein Clinic Student Directors
Anya Allen
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Anya Allen is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Through her work with the Lowenstein Clinic, Anya has co-written a Rule 9 submission to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of...
Tim Hirschel-Burns
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Tim Hirschel-Burns is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Through his work in the Lowenstein Clinic, Tim has worked to advance human rights-based climate change litigation and...
Alexandria Miskho
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Alexandria Miskho is a third-year J.D. Candidate at Yale Law School. Through her work with the Lowenstein Clinic, Alexandria has researched maternal mortality and healthcare access in Latin...
Rachael Stryer
Lowenstein Clinic Student Director
Rachael Stryer (she/her) is a third-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Her work for the clinic has included research on the viability of bringing litigation against corporations complicit in...
Lowenstein Project Directors
Julia Hontaruk-Levko
Lowenstein Project Director
Julia Hontaruk-Levko is a student at Yale College majoring in Political Science & Sociology. She is interested in the ways by which identity formation and social cohesion shape political norms...
Schell Center Student Directors
Chris Ewell
Schell Center Student Director
Chris Ewell is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, Class of 2022, interested in the intersection between human rights, labor rights and environmental protection. He has a passion for challenging...
Juan Pablo Miramontes
Schell Center Student Director
Juan Pablo Miramontes is a second-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he is focusing on international human rights and foreign relations law. While at Yale, he has interned with the...
Porter Nenon
Schell Center Student Director
Porter Nenon is a second-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School who is interested in gender and international humanitarian law. Porter has conducted research on humanitarian issues with the...
Gabriela Guimaraes Weldon
Schell Center Student Director
Gabriela Guimaraes Weldon is a second-year J.D. student interested in international human rights with a focus on economic, social, and cultural rights in Latin America. During her time in law...