About Us

The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) was established in 2002 to bring together and expand the rich array of teaching, research, clinical, internship, and publishing activities undertaken within New York University School of Law on issues of international human rights law.

 

Over two decades later, CHRGJ is a leading action-research hub not only for the NYU community but also for human rights organizations, advocates, and practitioners around the world. The Center acts as a catalyst with global partners to develop innovative ideas and practices that address the unparalleled challenges that the human rights field currently faces – from the erosion of democratic norms and growing inequalities to the climate emergency, technological disruption, changing geopolitics, and violent conflict.

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Our Mission

Research and Advocacy:

Use rigorous, methodical and ethical research as a tool for action to make human rights more effective and accountable.

Cultivate a Community:

Connect human rights researchers and practitioners from around the world with each other by synergizing innovation and collaboration as well as disrupting the human rights field.

Training and Resources:

Provide students and practitioners with training and resources to succeed and transform in the human rights field.

Directors

César Rodríguez-Garavito

CHRGJ Chair and Faculty Director Professor of Clinical Law

Margaret L. Satterthwaite

CHRGJ Faculty Director Director, Global Justice Clinic Professor of Clinical Law

Philip Alston

CHRGJ Faculty Director John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law

Ryan Goodman

CHRGJ Faculty Director Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law

Pablo de Greiff

Transitional Justice Program Director, Prevention Project Director

Arpitha Kodiveri

Research Director

Our People

All

Alejandra Torres

Research Scholar, Global Justice Clinic

Alice Nah

Affiliate, Human Rights Resilience Project

Alice Viera

Technology and Human Rights Scholar

Anna Macdonald

Practitioner in Residence

Bassam Khawaja

Counsel, Human Rights and Privatization Project

Ben Batros

Affiliate, Climate Litigation Accelerator

Brianne Cuffe

CHRGJ Program Assistant Faculty Assistant, Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman

Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz

Research Assistant, Climate Litigation Accelerator

Carly Krakow

Scholar in Residence, Academic Year 2022-2023

Christiaan van Veen

Director, Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project Adjunct Professor of Law

Délton Winter de Carvalho

Affiliate, Climate Litigation Accelerator

Douglas Mathew Mawadri

Affiliate, Human Rights Resilience Project

Elizabeth Donger

Affiliate, Global Justice Clinic

Ellie Happel

Associate Director, Global Justice Clinic Co-Director, Haiti Justice and International Accountability Co-Director, Caribbean Climate Justice Initiative

Emma Crowe

Privatization Project's Human Rights Scholar

Flavio Siqueira

Affiliate, Climate Litigation Accelerator

Gabrielle Apollon

Co-Director, Haiti Justice & International Accountability Project Supervising Attorney, Torture, Rendition, and Disappearances Project

Jackie Dugard

Affiliate Scholar

Jacqueline Gallant

Litigation Associate, Climate Litigation Accelerator

Jeremy Ng

Technology and Human Rights Scholar

Jeremy Perelman

Scholar in Residence, Spring 2023

Joyce De Connick

Scholar in Residence, Academic Year 2022-2023

Juan Auz

Affiliate, Climate Litigation Accelerator

Katarina Sydow

Director, Human Rights and Privatization Project

Katelyn Cioffi

Research Scholar, Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project

Melina De Bona

Litigation Associate, Climate Litigation Accelerator

Mihreteab Taye

Scholar in Residence, Academic Year 2022-2023

Mikhal Shachar

Policy & Program Manager, Prevention Project

Neli Frost

Scholar in Residence, Academic Year 2022-2023

Nora Naji

Scholar in Residence, Spring 2023

Oren Tamir

Scholar in Residence, Academic Year 2022-2023

Rebecca Riddell

Legal and Policy Director, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers; Counsel, Human Rights and Privatization Project

Richard Heede

Affiliate, Climate Litigation Accelerator

Rob Lothman

Legal & Policy Director, Prevention Project

Sharma Aurelien

Affiliate, Global Justice Clinic

Sienna Merope-Synge

Co-Director, Caribbean Climate Justice Initiative Supervising Attorney, Indigenous Land Rights and Earth Defence Project

Verena Kahl

Scholar in Residence, Fall 2022

Victoria Adelmant

Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project

Youssef Aziz

Privatization Project's Human Rights Scholar

Where We Work

While located at the heart of New York City, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice conducts its work in collaboration with partners from around the globe, including Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Work With Us

Join the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice team!

 

CHRGJ is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and actively recruits women, people of color, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI, and gender non-conforming people.

 

Please visit the Careers section or contact us for additional information about employment opportunities.