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Human Rights Center Team

• Amanda Lyons, Executive Director
• Abby Nelson, Program Coordinator
• Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Faculty Director

Visiting Scholars & Fellows

• Mansoor Adayfi, Visiting Fellow
• Oksana Baskakova, Fulbright Researcher
• John Bessler, Visiting Scholar
• Elina Castillo-Jiménez, Weissbrodt Human Rights Fellow
• Anne Charbord, Visiting Fellow
• Satang Dumbuya, Visiting Fellow
• Adriana Edmeades Jones, Visiting Fellow
• Melanie O'Brien, Visiting Scholar
• Catherine O'Rourke, Visiting Scholar
• Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Visiting Fellow

Affiliated Faculty

• Jennie Green (international human rights law, litigation in U.S. courts and international legal systems, business and human rights)
• Ryan Greenwood (history of international law)
• Oren Gross (international humanitarian law, national security law)
• Helen Kinsella (gender and armed conflict; international humanitarian law)
• Steve Meili (rights of noncitizens, international human rights law, international refugee law)
• Rand Park (business ethics, corporate social responsibility)
• Chris Roberts (sociology and public policy perspective to human rights, international law, legal history)
• Alan Rozenshtein (cybersecurity, fourth amendment, national security)
• Michele Statz (access to justice, rights mobilization, tribal and state court judging)
• Robert Stein (rule of law)
• Loren Turner (international and foreign legal research)

Local Partners

The Human Rights Center thrives in an exceptionally vibrant human rights community at the Law School, in the University, and in the Twin Cities. In addition to other programs and centers at the Law School, other local partners include:

• Human Rights Program, Institute for Global Studies
• James H. Binger Center for New Americans
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, College of Liberal Arts
• Center for Victims of Torture
• The Advocates for Human Rights
• Global Rights for Women