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Fall 2020
In October, the UCLA Law International and Comparative Law Program and the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice co-hosted the American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting. Professor Máximo Langer was also named President of the American Society of Comparative Law.
In a year of mass protests over systemic racism and the coronavirus pandemic, Professor E. Tendayi Achiume, the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, amped up her human rights advocacy. Achiume also continued as a leader at UCLA, winning UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
The Promise Institute is proud to be supporting child victims of forced labor in the chocolate industry in bringing their claims to the U.S. Supreme Court. Led by Professor Cathy Sweetser, students in our Human Rights Litigation Clinic worked on the brief for Respondents and two UCLA Law alumni filed an amicus brief on behalf of foreign lawyers.
As wildfires, intense storms and other climate change impacts are devastating vulnerable people around the world, the Promise Institute for Human Rights has spearheaded a range of initiatives aimed at curbing environmental crimes, and Executive Director Kate Mackintosh was appointed to an international expert panel on ecocide.
The Promise Institute for Human Rights supports students in high-profile post graduate fellowships and summer internships with leading human rights organizations.
Faculty Appointments and Publications
- “Modern Re-Readings of the Hadith Through a Gendered Lens,” in the Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women, edited by Asma Afsaruddin, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
- “Islamic Ethics, Human Rights and Migration,” in Migration and Islamic Ethics: Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship, edited by Ray Jureidini and Said Fares Hassan, Brill (2019).
- Appointed to Editorial Board of Just Security.
- Race, Refugees and International Law, in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, (edited by Costello, McAdam and Foster, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021).
- Race and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through and Across National Borders (with Asli Bâli), UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2020).
- Migration as Decolonization, 71 Stanford Law Review 1509 (2019).
- Served as the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor at Yale Law School during the Spring 2020 term.
- Elected as a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Committee chair of Middle East Studies Association’s Global Academy, securing a substantial grant from the Carnegie Endowment to support the program.
- “From Foreign Text to Local Meaning: The Politics of Religious Exclusion in Transnational Constitutional Borrowing,” with Matthew Nelson, David Mednicoff and Hanna Lerner, 45 Law & Social Inquiry (2020).
- “Artificial States and the Remapping of the Middle East,” 53 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 405 (2020).
- Race and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through and Across National Borders (with E. Tendayi Achiume), UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2020).
- Board Member/Director of the Caribbean Central American Research Council (CCARC). Project Manager for “Recognizing our Practice and Knowledge from Different Perspectives, Interests and Ways of Learning: A Collaborative Project between CCARC and the Build Program of the Ford Foundation for the Institutional Strengthening of Indigenous, Afrodescendent and Traditional Organizations”
- “El derecho a la salud en Estados Unidos, México, Centroamérica y Panamá en el contexto del COVID-19” (The right to health in the United States, Mexico, Central America and Panama in the context of COVID-19), chapter on the United States (forthcoming 2021), with Mara Gonzalez and Grace Carson
- The Rights of Indigenous Migrants, in “Human Rights Theory and Practice” (forthcoming 2021), with Shannon Speed and Odilia Romero of Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO—Indigenous Communities in Leadership)
- Appointed to the Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law.
- “Uncharismatic Revolutionary Constitutionalism,” in Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Law, Legitimacy, Power, edited by Richard Albert, Hart (2020).
- The Counter-Playbook: Resisting the Populist Assault on Separation of Powers, 59 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming 2020).
- Comparative Political Process Theory, International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2020).
- The Structure of a Free Speech Right, in The Oxford Handbook on Freedom of Speech, edited by Stone & Schauer, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2020).
- Pushing the Boundaries: Judicial Review of Legislative Procedures in South Africa, 9 Constitutional Court Review (2019).
- Appointed President of the American Society of Comparative Law.
- “The Quiet Expansion of Universal Jurisdiction,” with Mackenzie Eason, 30 European Journal of International Law 779 (2019).
- Appointed to the Council of Advisors on the Application of the Rome Statute to Cyberwarfare.
- 2021 Annual Meeting Program Committee of the American Society of International Law (ASIL).
- Appointed to the Independent Expert Panel on the Legal Definition of Ecocide.
- “The USA and ICC: Friend or Foe,” LA Lawyer Magazine, June 2020.
- Appointed to the Research Committee of the American Society of International Law’s Midyear Meeting Research Forum.
- Elected to the executive council of ASIL’s Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict in April 2020.
- Appointed to the Editorial Committee of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
- “Judicial Action and Accountability for Law of War Violations in the ‘War on Terror,’” 12 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 167 (2020).
- Appointed the Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law
- “The Second Digital Disruption: Streaming and the Dawn of Data-Driven Creativity,” with Christopher Jon Sprigman, 94 New York University Law Review 1555 (2019).
- Recipient of the 2019 award for New Interpretation of U.S.-Mexican Relations from PROFMEX, the Consortium for Research on Mexico.
- Appointed chair of the American Society for Legal History’s Committee on Documentary Preservation.
- “What Constitutes an Equitable Water Share? A Reassessment of Equitable Apportionment in the Jordan-Israel Water Agreement 25 Years Later,” with Samer Talozi, Amelia Altz-Stamm, and Hussam Hussein, 21 Water Policy 911 (2019).
- Appointed to the Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Chair in Law
- In 2019, appointed to the Trade and Environmental Policy Advisory Committee in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
- The International Criminal Court: Contemporary Challenges and Reform Proposals, Brill (2020).
- “The Impending Dejudicialization of the WTO Dispute Settlement System?,” 112 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 316 (2019).
- Appointed to serve as the co-vice chair of the board of directors of the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI).
- Foreword, in Weiterbildung zur Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt (Professional Training as a Preventive Strategy Against Sexual Violence), edited by Karl-H. Richstein and Werner Tschan, Second Edition, Beltz Juventa (2020).
- “Police and the Criminalization of LGBT People,” with Naomi G. Goldberg, Christy Mallory, Amira Hasenbush and Ilan H. Meyer, in The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States, edited by Tamara Rice Lave and Eric J. Miller, Cambridge University Press (2019).
- “Rupture and Invention,” in The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden, Cambridge University Press (2019).
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