The 50 faculty in the Human Rights Practice program are actively working on a broad range of critical human rights research and practice topics across the globe including the following. For more information on faculty research see our faculty publications page.
- Indigenous law
- transitional justice
- refugees and forced migration
- cultural and religious heritage
- U.S-Mexico border issues
- human rights in Africa
- gender-based violence
- reproductive justice
- human rights education
- media and terrorism
- victims' testimonies
- innovative uses of human rights law
- racial dynamics on college campuses nationally and internationally,
- environmental justice food and food systems
- immigration
- critical trauma studies
- economic development and women's empowerment
- LGBT+ rights
- queer archiving
- international crises
- refugees
- violence against journalists
- facilitation of multi-stakeholder policy and activist processes
- critical corruption studies
- human rights in the Middle East, Francophone Africa,
- the right to information