Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin …
Read More >UC Press is thrilled to share that UC Press author Loretta Ross has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.
Read More >By Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture I made my first trip to Guantánamo in July 2010 after years of researching the fight against …
Read More >By Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles The past week marked historic recognition of injustice and suffering. In Minneapolis on April 20, a jury found …
Read More >by Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur Violence in the Darfur region of Sudan is flaring up again, as the United Nations …
Read More >Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A milestone document, it proclaimed the inalienable human rights …
Read More >Women’s History Month provides us with the opportunity to consider the many aspects of women’s lives today. #MeToo and #TimesUp are just some of the many signs of our society’s growing recognition …
Read More >Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, 70 years ago today, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A milestone document, it proclaimed the inalienable …
Read More >“I do not know how things will be by the time you read it, but this book goes to press at a grim moment.” —Adam Hochschild Lessons From a Dark Time and …
Read More >As many in the U.S. debate the potential consequences of Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination for Supreme Court Justice, we are reminded that this moment in history is not about pro-choice or anti-abortion …
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