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The Rapoport Center serves as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice.
Center Spotlights
Apply now for an International Court & Tribunal Internship for the spring of 2014! Law students (current and graduating) are eligible for internships at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Other placement options may be available. Credit and/or funding is available.
Application deadline: Monday, June 3, 2013
The Rapoport Center extends a call for papers for the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights. The $1,000 prize will be awarded to the winner of an interdisciplinary writing competition. We welcome papers, from any discipline, that address gender and human rights from an international, transnational, or comparative perspective. Learn more.
Submission deadline: Monday, July 1, 2013
Contribute to, or comment on, the Human Rights Working Paper Series! We encourage submissions from scholars of all disciplines as well as from activists and advocates that contribute to the Rapoport Center's mission. See the website for more information.
2012 Human Rights Publications by Rapoport Center Affiliated Faculty
Our network of more than 100 affiliated faculty from over 25 disciplines published an incredible array of books and articles last year. View the list of 2012 human rights publications.
Our network of more than 100 affiliated faculty from over 25 disciplines published an incredible array of books and articles last year. View the list of 2012 human rights publications.
View or download a digital copy of our 2011-2012 Annual Review! Highlights include our role in the launching of a UT-hosted website containing millions of digitized documents from the Historic Archive of the National Police of Guatemala and our contribution to a MacArthur Foundation study on the use of electronic evidence in human rights cases.
Visit our online exhibit featuring the history, lives, and commitment of Bernard and Audre Rapoport.
Photo courtesy of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation.
The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) is an important partner of the Rapoport Center. Working with activists, scholars, and organizations to identify electronic and analog resources that are particularly vulnerable to loss, the HRDI aims to preserve the most fragile records of human rights struggles worldwide, promote the security and use of human rights archival materials, and further human rights research and advocacy around the world.
Rapoport Center Receives Fath Foundation Grant for Farenthold Archives Project
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law recently received a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation. The grant launched the Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold Archives Project, which will document Farenthold's contributions to Texas and U.S. politics, the women's peace movement and international human rights and justice.
Over three years, and in conjunction with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, a project team led by longtime journalist Susan Smith Richardson will process and preserve Farenthold's papers, digitize archival documents and images, produce videotaped interviews and expand the content of the Rapoport Center's existing website about her work.
News
Rapoport Center Announces its Summer & Fall Fellows for 2013
Rapoport Center Press Release
May 1, 2013
Eleven UT law students have been selected as Rapoport Center Fellows for this summer and fall.
Spring 2013 Undergraduate Interns Announced
Rapoport Center Press Release
February 28, 2013
Three UT undergraduate students will intern with the Rapoport Center during the spring semester.
Rapoport Center Receives Fath Foundation Grant for Farenthold Archives Project
UTLAW
February 26, 2013
The Rapoport Center recently received a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Fath Foundation to launch the Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold Archives Project, which will document Farenthold's contributions to Texas and U.S. politics, the women's peace movement, and international human rights and justice.
Law professor discusses 'Zero Dark Thirty' and the discourse of American torture
by Alexandra Dubinsky
The Daily Texan
February 26, 2013
"Zero Dark Thirty" may not have won an Academy Award on Sunday night, but it produced enough controversy to avoid living in the shadow of the Oscar winners.
Rapoport Center to host ninth annual conference, "Impunity, Justice, and the Human Rights Agenda"
UTLAW
January 29, 2013
This multidisciplinary will bring together scholars, human rights advocates, and policy makers from around the world to assess critically the human rights movement's focus on anti-impunity.
Fall 2012 Undergraduate Interns Selected
Rapoport Center Press Release
October 8, 2012
Three UT undergraduate students will intern with the Rapoport Center during the fall semester.
2012-2013 Human Rights Scholars Announced
Rapoport Center Press Release
September 26, 2012
Three UT law students have been selected as Rapoport Center Human Rights Scholars.
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