Students

The Pozen Center announces an exciting opportunity for students to study abroad at the new University of Chicago Hong Kong Center. Hong Kong: Human Rights in Asia is a three-week course offered before the beginning of Fall Quarter in September 2019.

The International Human Rights Law Clinic’s blog series The Matter of Human Rights continues with this third installment by third-year-law-student Anna Duke. In her piece “Never Again – Fulfilling a Promise,” Duke discusses the crime of genocide, established at the Genocide Convention in 1945, as an example of how the history of international law has manifested as a struggle between aspiration and political will. Duke references past instances of genocide and analyzes the language of the Convention to argue that public pressure can generate political will and overcome limitations of legal definitions.

Yesterday marked the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. With it, the International Human Rights Clinic brings the second installment of its blog series The Matter of Human Rights: “The Foundation of Human Rights: Is “Enough” Really Enough?” Joseph Nunn, a third year student at the law school, critically examines the promises of the Universal Declaration as they have been realized in practice.

This post is the first installment from UChicago Law's International Human Rights Law Clinic in a series titled — The Matter of Human Rights.

"My research looks at... how Syrian artists who have relocated to Lebanon produce art that activates a variety of ethical standpoints vis-à-vis the conflict in Syria." —Jenna Antonucci is a PhD student in Anthropology. Her research also explored how Syrian artists have reconfigured their networks of support and care, despite their precarious legal status in Lebanon.

The Pozen Center is pleased to announce our 2018 student award recipients.

The Pozen Center is preparing to send its 20th Anniversary Internship cohort off to their summer placements.

A peaceful, stable future for Colombia still faces many challenges, but on Conflict Resolution Day, we recognize the great strides being made to make Colombia a country that better manages and resolves conflict across many levels.

“Support from the Pozen Center allowed me to begin pursuing the ways that discourses around human rights and national belonging intertwine in a multicultural neighborhood in Oslo, Norway.”--Janet Connor is a PhD student in Anthropology. Her research focuses on questions of citizenship, migration, linguistic registers, and urban change in a neighborhood in central Oslo, Norway.

The Pozen Center congratulates twenty-three College students who are graduating in June 2017 with a minor in Human Rights.