Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights
Georgetown Law established the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights in 2006. This position is designed to bring distinguished human rights practitioners to Georgetown Law to teach and engage with our community.
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2025-2026 Drinan Chair: Founder & Chair, Cohen Milstein Human Rights Practice
Agnieszka Fryszman
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2024-2025 Drinan Chair: Founding Executive Director of Green Advocates International
Alfred Lahai Brownell, Sr.
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2023–2024 Drinan Chair: Former Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (REDESCA)
Soledad García Muñoz
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2022–2023 Drinan Chair: Former Registrar for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
David Tolbert
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2021–2022 Drinan Chair: Former Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Diann Rust-Tierney
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2019–2021 Drinan Chair: Former President and CEO of Human Rights First
Elisa Massimino
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2018–2019 Drinan Chair: Former UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders and former President of the World Organisation Against Torture
Hina Jilani
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2017–2018 Drinan Chair: Former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice
Stephen Rapp
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2016–2017 Drinan Chair: Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants and Full Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law
François Crépeau
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2015–2016 Drinan Chair: Founder and Executive Director of Disability Rights International
Eric Rosenthal (L'92)
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2013–2014 Drinan Chair: Former UN Human Rights and Political Affairs Officer; Senior Advisor at TrustWorks Global
Bela Kapur (LL.M. '92)
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2011–2012 Drinan Chair: Former UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues
Gay McDougall
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2009–2010 Drinan Chair: President Emeritus, Open Society Foundations
Aryeh Neier
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2008–2009 Drinan Chair: Justice, African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Fatsah Ouguergouz
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2007–2008 Drinan Chair: Former Judge, International Court of Justice
Thomas Buergenthal