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Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum
Jun 07 2024
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborat
Loretta Ross Named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow
Oct 13 2022
UC Press is thrilled to share that UC Press author Loretta Ross has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.
What I Learned about Torture and the Law at Guantánamo
Jul 28 2022
By Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against TortureI made my first trip to Guantánamo in July 2010 after years of researching the fight against US torture during the “war on terror.” At the time, Guantánamo’s well-deserved description as a “legal black hole” felt pe
On Recognition and Denial of Injustice in Times of Human Rights Hegemony: Minneapolis and Washington
Apr 27 2021
By Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic StrugglesThe past week marked historic recognition of injustice and suffering. In Minneapolis on April 20, a jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, one of many k
New Atrocities in Darfur and the Representation of Mass Violence
Aug 14 2020
by Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in DarfurViolence in the Darfur region of Sudan is flaring up again, as the United Nations and news media report. Janjawiid militia are targeting the same groups they had sought to de
The Human Rights of Youth
Dec 10 2019
Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A milestone document, it proclaimed the inalienable human rights which everyone is inherently entitled to regardless of race, ethnicity, rel