Both residential and online components of this program will allow you to connect with an exceptional array of established individuals in the field of human rights and humanitarian law. Our faculty includes more than 40 world-renowned experts who teach every year in the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. This is a great opportunity to interact with notable faculty members composed of international NGO members, international tribunal judges, members of regional international organizations, UN special rapporteurs, distinguished WCL faculty and international faculty and members of UN treaty bodies.
In addition to the substantive knowledge they transmit to our students, they are essential professional contacts for future work-related opportunities for the graduates of our program. The time spent in close contact with such experts, during the residential part of the program will most certainly guarantee success for future networking.
AUWCL Faculty
Professor of Law and Louis C. James Scholar at American University Washington College of Law, Faculty Director, War Crimes Research Office and Co-Director of WCL’s Center For Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Member, International Law Commission, United Nations, and Dean Emeritus, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C.
Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists and Professor, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Experiential Education
Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Member, Committee Against Torture (CAT), United Nations, and Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington, D.C.
Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Rebecca I. Grazier Professor of Law & International Relations
Director of The JD/MA Dual Degree Program
Visiting Faculty - English Courses
John Cerone
Visiting Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University & University of Windsor
David Crane
Founding Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone & Former Under Secretary General, United Nations
Helen Duffy
Founder, Human Rights in Practice, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Professor of human rights and humanitarian law, Leiden University
Siobhan McInerney-Lankford
Senior Counsel, World Bank, Legal Vice-Presidency, Washington, D.C.
Tara Melish
Director and Professor of Law, Buffalo Human Rights Center, SUNY Buffalo Law School, State University of New York
Jens Modvig
Chairperson, Committee Against Torture, United Nations
Ted Piccone
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy, Latin America Initiative, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
Flavia Piovesan
Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Rochus J.P. Pronk
Counselor / Head of Human Rights Team, Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Geneva, Switzerland. Guest lecturer
Margaret Roggensack
Interim Executive Director, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), Washington, D.C.
Eric Rosenthal
Founder and Executive Director, Disability Rights International, Washington, D.C.
Gerald Staberock
General Secretary, World Organization against Torture, Geneva, Switzerland
Melissa Upreti
Member, Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, United Nations Guest lecturer
Viviana Waisman
Founder, President, and Executive Director, Women's Link Worldwide, Spain
Jamie Williamson
Executive Director, International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers' Association (ICoCa), Geneva, Switzerland
Visiting Faculty - Spanish Courses
Victor Abramovich
Deputy Solicitor General, Supreme Court of Justice, Buenos Aires Argentina
Carlos Ayala
Vice-president, Executive Committee, International Commission of Jurists
Catalina Botero
Former Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS) and Dean of Law, University of Los Andes, Colombia
Laurence Burgorgue-Larson
Judge Constitutional Court of Andorra and Professor at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot
President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS), San José, Costa Rica
Maria Clara Galvis
Vice-chair, Committee on Enforced Disappearances, United Nations
Felipe Gómez Isa
Professor of Public International Law, Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto, (Bilbao), Spain
Felipe González
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants, United Nations
Daniela Kravetz
Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations
Viviana Krsticevic
Executive Director, Center for Justice and International Law, Washington, D.C.
Edison Lanza
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Julissa Mantilla
Professor of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and International Consultant on Justice from Gender Perspective, Perú
Fausto Pocar
Ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice, Appeals Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Former President, Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Pablo Saavedra
Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States, San José, Costa Rica
José Miguel Vivanco
Executive Director, Americas Division, Human Rights Watch, Washington, D.C.
Online Faculty
Jorge Araya
Secretary of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and an official of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Álvaro Botero
Human rights specialist with the Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants, Inter-american Commission on Human Rights.
Mikel Mancisidor
Vice-president of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations Organization.
Alexander Morawa
International legal scholar who specializes in international human rights law, public international law, (comparative) constitutional law, and related areas.
Margaret Wachenfeld
Senior research fellow at the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB).