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The Pozen Center is looking for Teaching Assistants for International Human Rights Law and Practice 

and Militant Democracy and the Preventative State.

Reflection on her internship by Lena Maghraoui (Environmental Science, AB'25) who served as a Pozen Center human rights summer 2022 intern at the World Commission on Environmental Law.

Zoe Butt is a curator and writer who lives and works between Chiang Mai, Thailand and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her practice focuses on critically thinking, historically conscious artistic communities; fostering dialogue among cultures of the globalizing souths; working with public/private institutions and independent artistic operatives, globally.

In these artist videos created by our friends at On The Real Film, Renaldo and Tara reflect on their time as Practitioner Fellows and describe their artistic journeys, inspirations, and freedom dreams. We hope you enjoy watching them.

The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Lab and Mass Incarceration Working Group (MIWG) Fellows student team for the 2022-23 academic year. 

Phyllis Frye, a pioneer in the fight for transgender rights, delivered the 2022 Kirschner Human Rights Memorial Lecture on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility.

Read Dr. Jane Dailey's new article published in The Nation on the attack on interracial marriage in the Supreme Court.

Doctoral students whose research intersects with human rights themes are invited to apply for this competitive yearlong fellowship opportunity. Fellows will meet throughout the academic year, typically twice per quarter, with members of the Pozen Center faculty. At the end of the academic year, Fellows will have made tangible progress on a piece of work and present it in the Doctoral Seminar.

Executive Director of Pozen Center, Kathleen Cavanaugh, has written a chapter of "Sharia Law in the Twenty-First Century", which consists of concise, detailed analytical studies on current critical discussions of Sharia in the Western and Muslim legal traditions.

Truth and Beauty in the Hard Places will be on display in Café Logan from Jan 27 - Mar 11, 2022, Don't miss!

Doctoral students interested in lecturing a course of their own design this academic year should apply!

The fellowship award supports one year of work after graduation at a non-governmental organization, government agency, or international body dedicated to human rights.

Matt Furlong, Pozen Center for Human Rights Social Science Teaching Fellow, is going to be instructing two courses in the upcoming Winter '22 quarter. HMRT 28215, Anthropological Approaches to Human Rights, and HMRT 23128, Sanctuary: Land Rights in Times of Rural Gentrification and Conservation Eviction, Interested students should register!

Spots are still open for this class taught by Nory Peters!

Watch Hedi Viterbo, from Queen Mary University of London, speak about his new book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine.

The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Human Rights Lab Graduate Fellow and Mass Incarceration BA Thesis Mentors!

With research funding from the Pozen Family Center of Human Rights, Sociology Ph.D. student Reyna Hernandez aims to further understand how former prison inmates who were wrongfully convicted and now exonerated experienced incarceration. This work shows how the legal system’s miscarriages of justice perpetually transform the prison experience.

The Pozen Center is looking for Teaching Assistants for our Winter Quarter 2022 course, Health and Human Rights, HMRT 21400!

The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Lab and Mass Incarceration Working Group (MIWG) Fellows student team for the 2021-22 academic year.

The Human Rights Startup Fund offers UChicago students financial support for new and innovative human rights projects and events.

Check out these new episodes of "Entitled," a podcast hosted by Pozen Faculty Board members Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg that gets into the weeds of global human rights debates.