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Just Released: Pozen Center Director's Report highlighting the events and accomplishments of the past year and sharing some of our plans as we move into the new academic year.

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

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.

Watch Pozen Faculty Board member Jane Dailey discuss her latest book, “White Fright,” in conversation with Faculty Director Mark Bradley.

TIME recently asked 21 historians, including Faculty Director Mark Bradley, to write about their picks for worst moments from American history “that hold a lesson—and what they think those experiences can teach us.”

Doctoral candidate Sandra H. Park recently published her essay, "Finding the Taejon Massacre in Independence, Missouri" on #AsiaNow, the blog of the Association for Asian Studies.

Albert Woodfox, who will deliver the Pozen Center's Fall 2019 Kirschner Lecture on November 7th, has been named a finalist for the National Book Award.

Hong Kong was the site for three weeks of an investigation into human rights locally and across Asia as part of the College’s new September courses.

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.

Director of Human Rights Practice Alice Kim is coeditor of and contributor to a new book illustrating the devastation caused by an unjust prison system. Kim is the inaugural director of the new Human Rights Lab, a project of the Pozen Center, that is engaging students and community in human rights work addressing mass incarceration and racialized policing.

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

Former Pozen Center Human Rights Intern and Office and Communications Assistant Melissa Gatter recently published an article in the journal Contemporary Levant, exploring how youth in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan navigate childhood and grapple with their Syrian identity using NGO resources and spaces.

Angela S. García, Yanilda María González, and Marci Ybarra write in the Huffington Post on the importance of college support for DACA recipients. Monika Nalepa writes in the Chicago Tribune about Polish nationalists and protestors.

This administration launched its anti-Muslim executive order and other policy initiatives against immigrants based on racism, arrogance, over-reaching and scare tactics. The public outcry and preliminary legal success were not what the White House anticipated. Some executive orders or new laws may succeed in reinstating racialized unfair immigration policies, but the opposition will defeat others. The immigrants, asylum seekers, their allies and lawyers are acting with a deep understanding of the struggle for civil rights and human rights that precedes this latest offense to morality, justice and common decency. They have only just begun to fight.

Tara Zahra, the Co-Chair of Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Faculty Board and professor of history published an opinion piece in the New York Times.