People

Human Rights Center Faculty & Staff

• Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Faculty Director
• David Weissbrodt, Founding Director
• Amanda Lyons, Executive Director
• Eszter Kirs, Visiting Scholar
• Marsha Freeman, Senior Fellow and IWRAW Director
• Krisztina Huszti-Orban, Research Fellow & Senior Legal Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights
• Tracey Blasenheim, Interdisciplinary Dissertation Fellow
• Anne Charbord, Visiting Scholar
• Sarah Thune, Administrative Coordinator

Additional Faculty

• Jennie Green (international human rights law, litigation in U.S. courts and international legal systems, business and human rights)
• Ryan Greenwood (history of international law)
• Oren Gross (international humanitarian law, national security law)
• Neha Jain (international criminal law)
• Steve Meili (rights of noncitizens, international human rights law, international refugee law)
• Chris Roberts (sociology and public policy perspective to human rights, international law, legal history)
• Robert Stein (rule of law)
• Loren Turner (international and foreign legal research)

Partners

The Human Rights Center thrives in an exceptionally vibrant human rights community at the Law School, in the University, and in the Twin Cities. Our partners include:

• Human Rights Program, Institute for Global Studies
• James H. Binger Center for New Americans
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
• Center for Victims of Torture
• The Advocates for Human Rights
• Global Rights for Women