Staff
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 Bernard and Audre 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.
List of Karen Engle's Publications
Barbara Harlow, Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literatures & Interium Director (Fall 2009), Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Barbara Harlow is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo in 1977. Her teaching and research interests include imperialism and orientalism, literature and human rights/social justice, the 19th century novel, the European Novel, Middle East and African Studies, the “Global South,” and comparative/interdisciplinary studies. She is especially interested in cultural politics and political cultures; third world studies; critical theory; prison and resistance writings and postcolonial studies (particularly Anglophone African and modern Arabic literatures and cultures). Harlow has done research and worked in academic institutions in Egypt, South Africa and Mozambique. She taught at the American University in Cairo from 1977 to 1983, and again 2006-07 as Visiting Professor and Acting Chair of English and Comparative Literature. Other teaching experience includes University College Galway (1992), University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg (1998) and University of Natal in Durban (2002).
She is the author of Resistance Literature (1986), Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention (1992), After Lives: Legacies of Revolutionary Writing (1996), and co-editor with Mia Carter of Imperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook (1999) and Archives of Empire: Vol 1: From the East India Company to the Suez Canal and Vol 11: The Scramble for Africa (2003), and co-editor with Ferial Ghazoul of The View from Within: Writers and Critics and Contemporary Arabic Literature (1994), and with Toyin Falola of two volumes of essays in honor of Bernth Lindfors, Palavers of African Literature and African Writers and Readers (2002). She is currently working on an intellectual biography of the South African writer and activist, Ruth First.
Ariel Dulitzky, Director of the Human Rights Clinic
Ariel Dulitzky is Director of the Human Rights Clinic at the School of Law. 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.
Vandana Nakka, Postgraduate Fellow in Human Rights, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Vandana Nakka is the recipient of a Postgraduate Fellowship in Human Rights. Nakka was born in Hyderabad, India. She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Michigan Law School. While at Smith, she spent a year at the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International Relations. At the University of Michigan, she studied international human rights law at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy. Upon graduating, she was an intern at the AIRE Centre in London and helped to provide direct legal advice and assistance to legal practicitioners and indigents. Subsequently she joined the corporate department of Clifford Chance in New York. Nakka's work in human rights law has focused primarily in the field of international refugee and asylum law.
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.
