Join the Schell Centre for Human Rights and our panel of human rights scholars to explore what the role of universities – and legal academics – is, can, and should be in relation to the global movement for human rights.
With human rights under threat worldwide, we will be exploring what role universities can play in protecting and promoting human rights norms and activists, as well as the ethical challenges one faces as a human rights scholar.
Bringing together scholars at different stages of their academic careers across a number of disciplines who have all adopted a different balance between legal practice and academic work (see bios below), we also hope to explore the various facets of human rights legal scholarship and the many pathways available to those interested in a career in legal academia.
We hope you can join us!
The event will be held on Tuesday, March 7, from 6:10 - 7:30 in SLB 127.
Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP here so that we can be sure to get enough food.
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Panelist Bios
Aslı Ü. Bâli (‘99) is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Bâli’s teaching and research interests include public international law — particularly human rights law and the law of the international security order — and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East. She has written on the nuclear non-proliferation regime, humanitarian intervention, the roles of race and empire in the interpretation and enforcement of international law, the role of judicial independence in constitutional transitions, federalism and decentralization in the Middle East, and constitutional design in religiously divided societies. Bâli currently serves as co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Middle East Division of Human Rights Watch and as chair of both the Task Force on Civil and Human Rights of the Middle East Studies Association and the MESA Global Academy.
Claudia Flores is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She was previously a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago School of Law where she was Director of the Global Human Rights Clinic. Flores’s research and advocacy focuses on international human rights, issues of inequality and failures of good governance and rule of law. Prior to joining the faculty at University of Chicago, Flores served as United Nations legal advisor to the governments of East Timor and Zimbabwe in constitutional and legislative drafting processes. Previously, Flores managed a USAID-funded program to combat human trafficking in Indonesia. From 2004–2008, she was a staff attorney at the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union in the Women’s Rights Project. Flores was a recipient of the Skadden Arps Fellowship of the Skadden Foundation and law clerk to Judge Harry Pregerson in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She was also a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar and Sinsheimer Service Fellow at New York University School of Law where she earned her J.D. She received her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Molly Land’s (‘01) is Catherine Roraback Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of human rights, science, technology, and innovation. Her most recent book, “New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice” (CUP 2018, ed. with Jay Aronson), provides an essential roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. Professor Land’s current research is focused on developing an interdisciplinary framework based on human rights law for responding to harmful online speech in ways that balance protection against the harms of speech with appropriate safeguards for freedom of expression and privacy.
Professor Land’s articles have been published in the Connecticut Law Review and the Yale, Harvard, Virginia, and Michigan journals of international law, among other places, and she speaks and lectures widely on the relationship between technology and human rights. She has also authored several human rights reports, including a report for the World Bank on the role of new technologies in promoting human rights.
Mara Revkin (‘16) is an Associate Professor of Law at Duke University with research and teaching interests in armed conflict, peace-building, transitional justice, migration, policing, and property. She uses empirical mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) with a regional focus on the Middle East. Her work is informed by field research and professional experience with humanitarian and human rights organizations in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Oman. In addition to her academic research, Revkin works with humanitarian, human rights, and development organizations to support evidence-based programs that aim to strengthen rule of law, support peaceful reconciliation after conflict, and mitigate the root causes of political violence and extremism. This includes previously serving as the lead researcher on Iraq and Syria for United Nations University, the research wing of the United Nations system, leading case studies on the recruitment of children by armed groups and prospects for transitional justice after the Islamic State.