2025–2026 Drinan Lecture on Human Rights: “Against the Headwinds: Human Rights Lawyering in a Fractured World” delivered by Agnieszka Fryszman, L’96

Join us on Thursday, November 13th at 4:00 p.m. for our annual Drinan Lecture on Human Rights. The 2025–2026 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights, Agnieszka Fryszman, is one of the nation’s preeminent human rights litigators and founder of the Human Rights practice at Cohen Milstein. For more than two decades, Fryszman has been at the forefront of landmark litigation on behalf of survivors of grave human rights abuses. Her achievements have earned wide recognition, including the National Law Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Public Justice’s Trial Lawyer of the Year, and the Human Trafficking Legal Center’s Advocate of the Year, among other honors. Professor Fryszman will deliver this year’s lecture, “Against the Headwinds: Human Rights Lawyering in a Fractured World,” exploring how human rights lawyers can advance justice and uphold human dignity amid growing global challenges.