In 2013, Georgetown Law established the Human Rights Institute Dash-Muse Teaching Fellowship. The Dash-Muse Teaching Fellow works closely with HRI leadership to conceptualize and implement all Institute programs.  Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: assisting with the Institute’s Fact-Finding Practicum as a teaching fellow; managing the Institute’s Human Rights Associates Program; supporting the campus human rights community; providing academic and career advice to students interested in human rights; engaging with the Institute’s human rights alumni network; maintaining the Institute’s strong ties to human rights practitioners; organizing human rights conferences and other events; and supporting the Institute’s efforts to create human rights fellowship opportunities for graduating students.

The Fellow also participates in a year-long clinical law pedagogy course led by the nation’s leading law school clinical professors. The Fellow also writes and produces human rights-related scholarship and, upon completion of the fellowship term, is awarded an LL.M. degree in Advocacy.

Dash-Muse Teaching Fellows

2019-present: Melissa Stewart Current Dash-Muse Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law

2017-2019:  Ashley Binetti Armstrong (currently Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law)

2015-2017:  Patrick W. Griffith (currently Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs at Georgetown University Law Center)

2013-2015:  Ian M. Kysel (currently Visiting Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic at Cornell Law School)