The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice serves as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice. Our goal is to promote the economic and political enfranchisement of marginalized individuals and groups both locally and globally. We invite you to explore this site to learn more about our work at the intersection of academics and advocacy.
The Rapoport Center's Spring 2024 conference, Disarming Toxic Empire, will bring together academics, advocates, and artists working through intergenerational channels of memory and justice to respond to nuclear toxicity in all its forms and manifestations, in sites ranging from the Navajo Nation and the Pacific Islands to Japan, North Africa, and Ghana.
We are pleased to publish Taís Penteado's paper, "Reimagining Antisubordination from the Global South: Towards a Joint Venture Theory of Legal Interpretation".
The Human Rights Clinic at Texas Law partnered with Equality Texas to support their efforts to secure justice and full equality for transgender and LGBTQIA+ people in Texas.
Manasi Chande, Fall 2023 Barbara Harlow intern, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s justification for the manufactured legal system in Guantanamo Bay which perpetuates a cycle of human rights abuses.
Check out our latest Annual Review, which highlights our programming on reproductive justice and environmental justice, Dorothy Roberts' Farenthold lecture, and student research and fieldwork.