Biography Research interestsBusiness and Human RightsSecondary SanctionsAlternative Dispute ResolutionPolicy-making and LawBahareh Jafarian is a legal researcher and policy analyst currently working towards a Ph.D. in Law at the University of Ottawa. Her ongoing research critically examines the relationship between secondary sanctions and the Business and Human Rights (...
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Biography Julia Hernandez is Associate Professor of Law at the CUNY School of Law. Julia practices in and writes about the family regulation system in its various iterations: at the border and beyond targeting migrant families, in Native communities and in state-based systems in communities across the U.S. She also researches and writes about pedagogy in legal education...
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Research InterestsGender and DevelopmentSocial Policy and Social ProtectionSocio-legal ApproachesHuman Rights DiscourseMelisa Handl is an Argentine lawyer and a PhD student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa (Canada). Her research interests include gender, development, qualitative research, and international human rights. She also completed a MA in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Canada). Melisa is currently investigating whether cond...
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Biography Research Interests International Law Inter-American Human Rights System International Criminal Law Business and Human Rights SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author=2239552 Salvador is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law. Previously, he has worked as legal adviser to the Andean Commission of Jurists, senior jurisdictional counsel to the Constitutio...
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Biography Audace Gatavu is Burundian human rights lawyer, member of Burundi Bar Association who worked for local and international organizations in promoting and protecting human rights in Burundi. He recently earned an LLM in International Human Rights Law (Cum Laude) from the University of Notre Dame Law School and received a Dean's Award for the “Accountability for Gross Violation of Human Rights” subject. In recognition of his accomplishments at Notre Dame Law School, he received the Cente...
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Biography Research Interests Human Rights Remedies Sustainable Development Arts and Human Rights Indigenous Peoples' Rights Gender B.F.A. (Honours) (York University), LL.B. (Osgoode Hall Law School), LL.M. (University of Ottawa), S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) (University of Toronto), M.B.A. (Queen’s University), of the Bar of Ont...
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BiographyCurrent Research AreasTransitional JusticePost-Atrocity AccountabilityTheories of International Criminal LawPost-Conflict Social ReconstructionAfricaRestorative JusticeKirsten J. Fisher is an Assistant Professor in Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan and the Executive Director of the University of Ottawa's Canadian Yearbook of Human Rights.Operating across traditional disciplines and subfields, she works on issues of global governance and human rights, justice after atr...
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Biography Full Biography Paul Finkelman is currently the John E. Murray Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago under the direction of Stanley N. Katz and the late John Hope Franklin and was later a Fellow in Law and Humanities at Harvard Law School. For the calendar year 2016 he...
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Biography Viviana Fernandez is the Associate Director at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa (uOttawa). Her role entails the overall management of human, financial, budgetary, physical and material resources of the Centre, maintaining a suitable and dynamic research environment for its members and partners, as well as the implementation ...
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Biography Current Research Interests International Law Development Business and Human Rights Independence of judges and Lawyers Jordi Feo has a Ph.D. in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice from the University of Valencia (Spain). His doctoral Thesis “Haiti, a difficult balance between International Law, Human Rights and Development” was awarded exc...
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