

John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law
Philip Alston is the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and a leading global scholar on human rights. He has conducted fact-finding in dozens of countries and has served on Read More

Part-Time Faculty
As a community arts practitioner, writer, and educator Piper Anderson has dedicated her life to using the arts and education to advocate for social justice. In 2001, realizing the destructive Read More

Clinical Professor
Joyce Apsel is a historian and lawyer who teaches courses on comparative genocide, human rights and humanitarianism, and peace studies. She also conducts in class workshops introducing students and public Read More

Acting Assistant Professor
Ashley teaches the first-year Lawyering course, and her scholarship focuses on refugee and human rights law. Prior to joining the faculty, Ashley taught the Human Rights Fact-Finding Practicum and led Read More

Deputy Director, Stern Center for Business & Human Rights; Adjunct Professor
Paul Barrett joined the Center as deputy director in September 2017 after spending more than three decades as a journalist and author focusing on the intersection of business, law, and Read More

Executive Director, U.S.-Asia Law Institute; Adjunct Professor
Ira Belkin writes and teaches extensively on law and rights issues in China, and oversees U.S.-Asia Law Institute’s mission to promote the rule of law and human rights in Asia. Read More

Assistant Professor
Enrico Bertini focuses on the study of effective data visualization methods and techniques to explore and make sense of large and often high- dimensional data. He also studies how to Read More

Associate Professor; Director of International Education
Dana Burde focuses her research on the effects of conflict on education, the efforts of humanitarian organizations to mitigate these effects, and the relationship between education and political violence or Read More

Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Pamela Calla, an anthropologist, is Clinical Associate Professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and director of the Observatory on Racism of Read More

Program Director
Dr. Castillo has been working globally in the fields of gender, social justice, and health equity for nearly 20 years. Her expertise includes cultural rights, adolescent health, sexual & reproductive Read More

Professor; Faculty Director U.S.-Asia Law Institute
Jerome Cohen is a leading American expert on Chinese law and government, and focuses his research on criminal justice reform, human rights, and the role of international law relating to Read More

Adjunct Professor
Belinda Cooper is the editor of War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg, which explores the interconnections between the Nuremberg tribunal and today’s international criminal tribunals. Cooper teaches and lectures on Read More

Assistant Director
Omar A. Dauhajre is a Puerto Rican writer/editor, historian, and musician. Over the last decade, he has worked in the nonprofit sector in Boston and New York both in academia Read More

Transitional Justice Program Director
Pablo de Greiff directs the Transitional Justice Program at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. He served as the first UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, Read More

Deputy Director
Sukti Dhital is a human rights lawyer with significant experience in the field of economic and social rights. Previously she was the Executive Director and Co- founder of Nazdeek, a Read More

Co-Director; Associate Professor
R. Luke DuBois is an artist, composer, and software engineer, who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He has taught worldwide on interactive sound Read More

Professor
Stephen Duncombe teaches and writes on the history of mass and alternative media and the intersection of culture and politics. A life-long political activist, he is presently the co-founder and Read More

Associate Director
Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia is an Associate Director at NYU’s Public Interest Law Center, where she runs the intensive pro bono research program, which provides research support to domestic and international non-profits Read More

Henry and Marilyn Taub Professor of Practice in Public Service and Leadership
David Elcott has spent the last twenty-five years at the intersection of community building, the search for a theory of cross-boundary engagement, and interfaith and ethnic organizing and activism. Over Read More

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Paula Fernandez-Wulff is a transdisciplinary legal scholar, Postdoctoral Global Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU’s Department of Anthropology, where she Read More

Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management; Director of Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy Program
Erica Foldy focuses her research on what enables and inhibits collaboration and learning across potential divisions like race and gender. She is interested in how our identities, frames and learning Read More

Clinical Professor
John Gershman focuses his research and teaching on the intersections between property rights and human rights in natural resource management in Ghana and the Philippines and the organizational and political Read More

Clinical Professor
Anne Marie Goetz is a political scientist who specializes in research on development policies in fragile states to promote the interests of marginalized social groups, particularly poor women. She served Read More


Professor Emerita; Senior Technical Advisor
Professor Guttmacher’s research interests include policy and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases; poverty and public health; women’s health and evaluation. Much of her research in the past severalyears has Read More

Haiti Project Director; Staff Attorney
Ellie Happel directs the Global Justice Clinic’s Haiti Project, Preventing Violations and Advancing Human Rights in Haiti’s Emerging Mining Sector. As of the summer of 2017, Ellie is also a Read More

Executive Director, China and International Human Rights Law Research Program; Adjunct Professor
Sharon Hom focuses her research on China’s compliance with international norms and obligations and regulation of the Internet in China. She is also the Executive Director of Human Rights in Read More

Associate Professor
Natasha conducts research on labor migration and economic development, on labor mobilization and its relationship to workforce development, and on processes of institutional innovation and organizational learning. Her current project investigates Read More

Divisional Dean and Director of CGA
Vera Jelinek’s mission to create a community of global citizens has spanned over three decades at NYU. She launched the M.S. in Global Affairs program and the Center for Global Read More

Doctor; Associate Professor
Allen is a general internist and Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine. He has dedicated his career to evaluating and caring for victims of human rights abuses and promoting the Read More

Co-Director, Human Rights and Privatization Project
Bassam Khawaja is a human rights lawyer and co-director of the Human Rights and Privatization Project at NYU Law School’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. The project examines Read More

Associate Professor
Elisabeth King is a political scientist working on issues related to conflict, peacebuilding, and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Her recent projects examine how education, youth programs, and community-driven development interventions Read More

Academic Director; Clinical Associate Professor
Carolyn Kissane teaches graduate level courses examining the geopolitics of energy, comparative energy politics, energy, environment and resource security, a regional course focusing on Central Asia. She is the Coordinator Read More

Adjunct Professor
Peter Lucas focuses his research and teaching on human rights and media, documentary practice, the poetics of witnessing, human rights education, and human rights in Latin America. In 2012, he Read More

Associate Professor
Ritty Lukose’s teaching and research interests explore the relations between culture, politics, and economy as they manifest themselves in discourses and practices of gender across the varied terrain of globalization, Read More

Assistant Professor
Damon McCoy focuses his research on empirically measuring the security and privacy of technology systems and their intersections with society. Currently, his primary focus is on online payment systems, economics Read More

Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff is a scholar working at the intersection of public health and sociology. Her work primarily explores how social inequalities shape the impact of disaster on health, recovery, Read More

Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law
Sienna Merope-Synge is a co-supervisor of the Global Justice Clinic’s project on Human Rights in Haiti’s Emerging Mining Sector and co-teaches the Global Justice Clinic Seminar. She is also a Read More

Faculty Director, CHRGJ; Professor
Professor Merry’s research on human rights examines the process by which human rights ideas are interpreted in vernacular terms that are relevant to everyday life in communities around the world. Read More


Clinical Assistant Professor; Executive Director, HealthRight International
Peter Navario has extensive field experience establishing, monitoring, and evaluating HIV/AIDS treatment programs and health system capacity building across sub-Saharan Africa. As Executive Director of HealthRight International, he partners with Read More

Associate Professor
Vasuki Nesiah is a legal scholar with a focus on public international law. Her main areas of research include the law and politics of international human rights and humanitarianism, with Read More

Research Scholar
Trang (“Mae”) Nguyen (Nguyễn Thu Trang) is an affiliated researcher at New York University School of Law, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, and a visiting scholar at University of California Berkeley School Read More

Professor
Sonia M. Ospina is a sociologist by training, with research and teaching interests in the participatory, inclusive and collaborative dynamics of democratic governance. She has produced research on social change Read More

Associate Professor; Academic Director
Marianne currently teaches courses in digital media, animation, paper arts, and storytelling. She is a co-founder/co-director of the Ability Project, an interdisciplinary research space dedicated to the intersection between disability and Read More

Teacher
Benedetta was born and raised in Parma, Italy. She is an artist and designer turned humanitarian technologist, after helping organize emergency response efforts during the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 Read More

Clinical Instructor
Dr. Porterfield provides care to individuals and families who have survived torture and refugee trauma. She has served as an expert in criminal and human rights cases involving torture and Read More

Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance; Director, Center for Business and Human Rights
Michael Posner is the Center’s Director and the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance at NYU Stern. From September 2009 until March 2013, he served in the Obama Administration Read More

Assistant Professor; Director, Health and Human Rights Certificate Program
Joanna Pozen is an international public health lawyer and human rights specialist. She leads the new Health and Human Rights Certificate program, and jointly serves as the Program Director of Read More

Adjunct Faculty/Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Lyel is an entrepreneur, technologist, educator, speaker, and consultant. He specializes in launching and scaling innovative products and services, social impact strategy and assessment, and impact investing and startup advisory. Read More

Co-Director, Human Rights and Privatization Project
Rebecca Riddell is co-director of the Human Rights and Privatization Project at NYU Law School’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. She previously served as a senior advisor to Read More

CHRGJ Director
César Rodríguez-Garavito is a director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. He is a human rights and environmental justice scholar and practitioner whose interests focus on global Read More

Professor of Clinical Law; Faculty Director
Margaret Satterthwaite’s research interests include the use of data and data visualization for human rights advocacy, methodological innovation in human rights, and the well-being and mental health of human rights Read More

Professor of Clinical Law
Jason Schultz is a professor of clinical law and director of NYU School of Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic. In his clinical projects, research, and writing, he addresses the Read More

Associate Professor; Global Network Professor
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism. He has a joint appointment at NYU at the Arthur Read More

Assistant Director
Rebecca serves as the Assistant Director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, where she leads operations and major programs, and supports entrepreneurs focused on socio-environmental challenges. Rebecca is also adjunct faculty Read More

Clinical Associate Professor; Clinical Director, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Hawthorne Smith is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director of the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor at the NYU School of Medicine Read More

Executive Director
Vincent Southerland has dedicated his career to advancing racial justice and civil rights. He comes to NYU Law after serving as an Assistant Federal Public Defender, Senior Counsel with the Read More

Associate Professor
Carol Anne Spreen’s scholarship brings together interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to examining education policy and practice. Her research centers on political and socio-cultural studies of educational change, particularly the influences Read More

Associate Professor
Dr. Squires’ research focuses on health workforce capacity building around the world. The patient focus of her work centers on the studying the intersections of how language preference influences patient Read More

Clinical Professor
Jennifer teaches: International Law; Human Rights; International Justice; Transitional Justice; U.S. Use of Force & the “Global War on Terror,” a field intensive on Justice in the Former Yugoslavia, and Read More

Adjunct Assistant Professor; Teacher; Academic Director
Shawn is a researcher, professor and consultant. His focus is on emerging technologies related to media creation, distribution and interaction. His projects generally involve development of tools that help to Read More

Director, Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project
Christiaan van Veen is the Director of the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He Read More

Acting Assistant Professor
Rachel Wechsler is an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering. She is in the final stages of her doctorate in Criminology at the University of Oxford, which focuses on sex trafficking Read More

Executive Director, Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging; Adjunct Professor of Law
David Glasgow is the Executive Director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging and an Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. He graduated with a BA Read More

Legal and Program Director, Prevention Project
Katie Wightman is the Legal and Program Director of the Prevention Project at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Alongside this role, Katie co-supervises the Global Justice Clinic’s Read More