Steve Meili
Steve Meili
James H. Michael Chair in International Human Rights Law
Assistant Dean for Clinical Education
Professor of Law

Prof. Meili Presents Research on Constitutionalized Human Rights Law in Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.

Over the past three weeks, Professor Stephen Meili has presented his research on the constitutionalization of human rights law at conferences and workshops sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), the Refugee Law Initiative at the University of London, Queen Mary University (London), the Law & Society Association (Washington, D.C.), and the Latin American Studies Association (Boston). Meili’s research is part of a long term comparative project funded by the University of Minnesota’s Grand Challenges Research Initiative that looks at the circumstances under which constitutionalized human rights law offers protection to refugees and asylum-seekers beyond that which is provided under international law. Professor Meili’s recent presentations focused on his research in Mexico, which is in the vanguard of countries where lawyers frequently invoke constitutionalized human rights law in their representation of refugees and asylum-seekers from Central America and Venezuela. His research on Mexico will be published in the forthcoming issue of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.