The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law serves as a focal point for critical discussion and policy analysis of human rights law and advocacy. Thanks to generous support from the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation, the Center connects students, practitioners and academics engaged in interdisciplinary study of human rights both locally and globally.
Karen Engle
Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law &
Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
KAREN ENGLE has taught at The University of Texas School of Law since 2002. She directs the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, which she helped found in 2004. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Gender and Women's Studies, and is a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. She teaches courses in international human rights and employment discrimination, as well as specialized seminars such as "Publishing Legal Scholarship" and "Human Rights and Justice Workshop."
Professor Engle received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree from Baylor University. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Jerre S. Williams on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and then served as a a post-doctoral Ford Fellow in Public International Law at Harvard Law School. She was Professor of Law at the University of Utah prior to joining the University of Texas.
Professor Engle writes and lectures extensively on international law and human rights. Her recent works include ''Indigenous Roads to Development'' (forthcoming, Handbook of International Law, Routledge), ''Judging Sex in War'' (forthcoming, Michigan Law Review), ''Calling in the Troops: The Uneasy Relationship Among Human Rights, Women's Rights and Humanitarian Intervention,'' Harvard Human Rights Law Journal (2007 ), ''Feminism and Its (Dis)contents: Criminalizing War-Time Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina,'' American Journal of International Law (2005), ''Liberal Internationalism, Feminism and the Suppression of Critique: Contemporary Approaches to Global Order in the United States,'' Harvard International Law Journal (2005) and ''International Human Rights and Feminisms: When Discourses Keep Meeting'' in International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches (2005). Professor Engle spent spring and summer of 2007 in Bogotá, Colombia, where she investigated and lectured on indigenous rights and Afro-Colombian rights. She has been named a Fulbright Senior Specialist.
Ariel Dulitzky
Visting Professor of Law and Latin American Studies &
Associate Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
ARIEL DULITZKY is Visiting Professor of Law and Latin American Studies and Associate Director of the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He is a leading expert in the inter-American human rights system. Prior to joining the University of Texas, he was Assistant Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (ICHR), an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS). Professor Dulitzky is an honors graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. He received his LLM from Harvard Law School in 1999.
Professor Dulitzky has published extensively on human rights, the inter-American human rights system, racial discrimination and the rule of law in Latin America. He has taught at the University of Buenos Aires and the Washington College of Law at American University. He served as a law clerk for a Federal Circuit Court in Argentina.
Dulitzky received the 2007 Gary Bellow Public Service Award from Harvard Law School for his career in human rights. In addition to his work at the Inter-American Commission, he has served as advisor to the IACHR´s first Special Rapporteur on Afro-Descendants that he helped to establish in 2005, and as technical advisor to the OAS Working Group discussing the adoption of a new Inter-American Convention against Racial Discrimination. He has been a consultant for the Office of the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner and the Inter-American Institute on Human Rights. Previously, Professor Dulitzky was the Latin America Program Director at the International Human Rights Law Group (currently Global Rights) and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). Professor Dulitzky has directed the litigation of more than a 100 cases in front of the Inter-American Commission and Court on Human Rights.
Sarah Cline
Administrator, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
SARAH CLINE has worked as the Administrator of the Rapoport Center since July 2006. Ms. Cline received her M.A. in International Relations from Baylor University and her B.A. cum laude in International Relations and Sociology from Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining the Rapoport Center, Ms. Cline worked for various intergovernmental and nongovernmental human rights organizations, including the United Nations Human Rights Committee and World Vision International in Geneva, and The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.