Jeanmarie Fenrich is the Director of Special Projects in Africa for the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School.  She graduated magna cum laude from Fordham Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Fordham Law Review. She has conducted field research and authored publications on issues related to legal pluralism, […]

Dr. Neamatollah Nojumi has over twenty years of executive policy analysis on state-building, and conflict transformation, legal reforms and democratization. He is affiliated with George Mason University and number of accredited institutions. He worked as a Senior Advisor for government and non-government organizations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Southwest and Central Asia,

Thuto Thipe is a researcher with the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research areas include governance systems and the state’s role in constructing group identities. Her research has contributed to policy development, legislative reform and litigation. Click here to access a PDF version of this article.

Sandra F. Joireman is the Weinstein Chair of International Studies and Professor of Political Science the University of Richmond.  She received her A.B. in Anthropology and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.  She specializes in the study of property

The Harvard Human Rights Journal is excited to launch it’s fall 2014 annual Online Symposium. Each year, we aim to host a discussion on critical and cutting edge human rights issues on our online forum, and invite scholars and practitioners to join in and contribute pieces.  This year, our Online Symposium is titled: From the Informal

By Becca Donaldson, Harvard Law School, J.D. 2016 Mahmood Monshipouri’s Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East addresses an intersection of topics not often considered together in traditional international studies literature: youth, social media, human rights, and the U.S. response to the revolutions in the Middle East. His book accomplishes this by packing a broad

By Courtney Danae Paterson, Harvard Law School, J.D. 2016 In the era of post-9/11 politics, the weighty questions of identity, religion, and human rights center increasingly on the topics of the contested universal human rights framework, cultural relativism, and the role of Islam. Lila Abu-Lughod’s timely work, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?,[1] addresses this critical

HHRJ’s 2014 Symposium, The Future of Business and Human Rights, was held on April 17, 2014. It kicked off with a lunch panel on the Alien Tort Statute involving a timely discussion of litigation strategies for holding corporations accountable for human rights abuses one year after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kiobel v. Royal