Staff
Karen Engle, Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law & Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Karen Engle is Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law at The University of Texas School of Law, and founding director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. 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 and specialized seminars in public international law, international human rights law and employment discrimination.
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.
She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Baylor University. Professor Engle writes and lectures extensively on international human rights law. Her recent works include “The Force of Shame” (in Rethinking Rape Law , forthcoming 2010)(with Annelies Lottmann), “Indigenous Roads to Development” (in Handbook of International Law, 2009), “Judging Sex in War” (Michigan Law Review, 2008), “Calling in the Troops: The Uneasy Relationship Among Human Rights, Women's Rights and Humanitarian Intervention” (Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2007), and “Feminism and Its (Dis)contents: Criminalizing War-Time Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (American Journal of International Law, 2005). Her book, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy, was published by Duke University Press in 2010. Professor Engle received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (2009) and is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.
List of Karen Engle's Publications
Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor of Government & Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Daniel Brinks is Associate Professor of Government, in the fields of Comparative Politics and Public Law. He is also faculty advisor for the graduate human rights concentration in Latin American studies. Professor Brinks' research focuses on the role of the law and courts in supporting or extending the rights associated with democracy, with a primary regional interest in Latin America. His most recent projects address the judicial response to police violence in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, the use of courts and law to enforce social and economic rights in the developing world, judicial independence, and the role of informal norms in the legal order. He is also interested in the study of democracy more generally, and has written on the classification of regimes in Latin America, and on the global diffusion of democracy in the last quarter of a century. His research draws on his personal experience, as he was born and raised in Argentina and practiced law in the United States for nearly ten years before returning to academia. He is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies. He teaches courses in in Comparative Politics, Comparative Judicial Politics, Democracy and Democratization, and Latin American Politics.
Professor Brinks received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Professor Brinks has published articles in journals such as Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Political Studies and the Texas International Law Journal. His book The Judicial Response to Police Violence in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
William Chandler, Administrator, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
William Chandler has worked as the Administrator of the Rapoport Center since April 2011. Mr. Chandler received his M.S. in International Politics with top honors from the University of Glasgow in Scotland and his B.A. in Spanish from Davidson College. Before joining the Rapoport Center, William worked as a program manager for an international education organization based in Austin, Texas. He is primarily interested in international human rights issues in Latin America, with a specific focus on Mexico.
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.
Barbara Harlow, Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literatures & Faculty Panel Chair, Human Rights and Social Justice Bridging Disciplines Program
Barbara Harlow is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literatures and chair of the faculty panel for the Human Rights and Social Justice Bridging Disciplines Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She also served as the interim director of the Center during fall 2009. Harlow 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.
