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We regularly bring distinguished human rights scholars and practitioners to campus for one quarter to teach a seminar and offer a series of public lectures, thus advancing the Center’s goal of bringing the theory and practice of human rights into productive and creative conversation. This visiting professorship is made possible by a gift from Richard and Ann Pozen.

Spring 2026

Edwin Cameron

South African human rights lawyer and Constitutional Court judge

Edwin Cameron was first appointed as a judge in South Africa's legal system by President Nelson Mandela in 1994. He served 25 years as a judge, first on the High Court, then the Supreme Court of Appea, and finally on the Constitutional Court (South Africa’s highest court). After retiring, he was elected Chancellor of Stellenbosch University and President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed him Inspecting Judge of prisons. A human rights lawyer under apartheid, Cameron helped secure the historic inclusion of sexual orientation in South Africa’s Constitution. Cameron was an outspoken critic of then-President Mbeki’s AIDS-denialist policies. He has written two prize-winning memoirs, Witness to AIDS (2005) and Justice: A Personal Account (2014), which have been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, and Korean. He was the first, and remains the only, public officeholder in Africa to state publicly that he is living with HIV/AIDS.

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Julia Hall

Winter 2025
Human Rights Lawyer, Researcher, and Advocate
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Louise Mallinder

Spring 2024
Professor, Queen's University Belfast; Deputy Director, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
Zoe Butt

Zoe Butt

Spring 2023
Curator and Writer; Founder, in-tangible institute
Jasbir Puar

Jasbir Puar

Spring 2022
Professor, The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia
Teng Biao

Teng Biao

Winter 2022
Grove Human Rights Scholar, Hunter College
Dean Spade

Dean Spade

Autumn 2019
Professor, Seattle University School of Law
Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson

Spring 2019
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of African American Studies, Emory University
Visiting Artists 2017

Visiting Artists

Spring 2017
Lola Aria, Jelili Atiku, Tania Bruguera, Sandi Hilal, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Alessandro Petti, and Laurie Jo Reynolds
Judge Lech Garlicki

Judge Lech Garlicki

Autumn 2016
Professor of Law, Warsaw University
Kevin Bales

Kevin Bales

Autumn 2015
Professor of Contemporary Slavery, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
Monica McWilliams

Monica McWilliams

Spring 2015
Emeritus Professor, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University
Eric Stover

Eric Stover

Autumn 2014
Co-Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Research Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley
Dr. William F. Schulz

William F. Schulz

Spring 2013
President and CEO (Retired), Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Elizabeth Borgwardt

Elizabeth Borgwardt

Spring 2012
Associate Professor of History and Law, Washington University in St. Louis
Rodolfo Stavenhagen

Rodolfo Stavenhagen

Spring 2011
Professor of Sociology (Retired), Colegio de Mexico
Justice Albie Sachs

Justice Albie Sachs

Winter 2010
Judge (Retired), Constitutional Court of South Africa