Her groundbreaking victories include securing billions in compensation for Holocaust survivors from German and Austrian companies, ands exposing Swiss banks\u2019 role in laundering assets during the Nazi era. Most recently, Fryszman and her team at Cohen Milstein secured a landmark settlement from ExxonMobil for Indonesian villagers who alleged that soldiers retained to protect the company\u2019s facilities in Aceh had tortured, raped or killed local residents. ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/Agnieszka-Fryszman-Cohen-Milstein-300x141.jpg\")
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Fryszman also filed one of the earliest civil suits under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and won the first successful U.S. judgment for men enslaved aboard fishing vessels, shining a global spotlight on abuses in the seafood supply chain. She has represented Nepali laborers trafficked onto U.S. military bases in Iraq, survivors of the Japanese military\u2019s World War II-era sexual slavery system (\u201ccomfort women\u201d) and former detainees seeking redress for abuse at Guant\u00e1namo Bay.<\/p>\n
Her achievements have earned wide recognition, including the National Law Journal\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award, Public Justice\u2019s Trial Lawyer of the Year, Human Trafficking Advocate of the Year from the Human Trafficking Legal Center, recognition as a Lawdragon Legend, and inclusion in Forbes\u2019s<\/em> \u201c50 Over 50\u201d list of changemakers improving the world.<\/p>\n \u201cI am excited to return to Georgetown Law where, as a night student, I was fortunate to take Father Drinan\u2019s class,\u201d said Fryszman. \u201cHe was a wonderful teacher and a great storyteller, and had an inspirational career fighting for human rights. Father Drinan became my faculty mentor, so it\u2019s a huge honor to have the opportunity to carry on his legacy and help equip the next generation of lawyers to tackle the challenges ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n As Drinan Chair, Fryszman will teach a course in the spring semester on human rights litigation in United States courts.<\/p>\n Watch the 2025-2026 Drinan Lecture:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agnieszka Fryszman, 2025-2026 Drinan Chair Agnieszka Fryszman, L\u201996, one of the nation\u2019s preeminent human rights litigators and founder of the Human Rights practice at Cohen Milstein, has been appointed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":2772,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7190,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/7190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}