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Human Rights Institute
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About the Institute Overview | Staff | Advisory Board
Overview
Staff Jane E. Stromseth Director & Professor of Law As Director of the Human Rights Institute, Professor Stromseth is responsible for developing and overseeing all of the Institute’s programs and initiatives. Among other things, she conceptualizes and coordinates major human rights conferences and off-the-record discussions between human rights leaders and government decision-makers. In addition, Professor Stromseth writes and teaches in the areas of international law and constitutional law. She is an expert in post-conflict legal reform and capacity-building, international law governing the use of force, international justice and human rights accountability, and war powers under the U.S. Constitution. Professor Stromseth has served as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council and as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. She has also served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Society of International Law, Professor Stromseth has published extensively on topics in international law and constitutional law, including on humanitarian intervention, post-conflict justice, and constitutional war powers. Her most recent book, Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law after Military Interventions (co-authored with David Wippman and Rosa Brooks) was published in October 2006. She edited and contributed to Accountability for Atrocities: National and International Responses (2003), and authored a book on the NATO alliance entitled The Origins of Flexible Response: The Debate Over NATO Strategy in the 1960s (1988). Professor Stromseth received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a student director of the Lowenstein Human Rights Project, and her D.Phil. in International Relations at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Rachel S. Taylor Deputy Director As Deputy Director of the Human Rights Institute, Ms. Taylor is responsible for helping to develop and manage all of the Institute's programs and initiatives. With the Institute’s Faculty Director, she organizes and implements major human rights conferences and discussions between human rights leaders and government decision-makers. She also advises students pursuing human rights careers and coordinates a speaker series on human rights topics. In addition, Ms. Taylor is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches a course on Contemporary Issues in Human Rights. Previously, Ms. Taylor was Special Projects Coordinator for the international human rights organization Global Rights, where she was responsible for writing speeches, policy statements, and substantive human rights reports; conducting advocacy outreach; and coordinating human rights panels and other events. She has written about human rights and international law for the United Nations, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, and World Press Review. She has also co-authored an academic article about the UN Security Council’s efforts to protect human rights and a book chapter about the establishment of a tribunal to try Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge leaders. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Advisory Board UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues
President, International Center for Transitional Justice and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
President, Human Rights First
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