Our Faculty
The Academy鈥檚 Faculty are agents of change that through effort and dedication have strengthen avenues of protection for the advancement of human rights. Through our Faculty, the Academy offers relevant, empowering training for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in the international human rights system and laws.
小蓝视频WCL Faculty
Professor of Law and Louis C. James Scholar at 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law,听Faculty Director,听War Crimes Research Office and Co-Director of WCL鈥檚 Center For Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Member, International Law Commission, United Nations, and Dean Emeritus, 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, Washington D.C.
Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists and Professor, 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Experiential Education
Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Rapporteur and Member, Committee Against Torture (CAT), United Nations, and Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington, D.C.
Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Rebecca I. Grazier Professor of Law & International Relations
Director of The JD/MA Dual Degree Program
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Visiting听Faculty - English Courses
Visiting Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University & University of Windsor
Founding Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone & Former Under Secretary General, United Nations
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Founder, Human Rights in Practice, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Professor of human rights and humanitarian law, Leiden University
Director and Professor of Law, Buffalo Human Rights Center,听SUNY Buffalo Law School, State University of New York
Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Deputy Ambassador, Charg茅 d鈥橝ffaires at the Netherlands Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq, International Lawyer and Human Rights Defender Diplomat
Interim Executive Director,听International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), Washington, D.C.
Executive Director, International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers' Association (ICoCa), Geneva, Switzerland
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Visiting听Faculty - Spanish Courses
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Former Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS) and Dean of Law, University of Los Andes, Colombia
Judge Constitutional Court of Andorra and Professor at the Universit茅 Paris I Panth茅on Sorbonne, Paris, France
Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot
President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS), San Jos茅, Costa Rica
Professor of Public International Law, Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto, (Bilbao), Spain
Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Professor of Law, Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica del Per煤, and International Consultant on Justice from Gender Perspective, Per煤
Ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice, Appeals Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Former President, Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States, San Jos茅, Costa Rica
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Online Faculty
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Jorge Araya
Secretary of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and an official of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
脕lvaro Botero
Human rights specialist with the听Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants, Inter-american Commission on听Human Rights.
Mikel Mancisidor
Vice-president of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations Organization.听
Alexander Morawa
International legal scholar who specializes in international human rights law, public international law, (comparative) constitutional law, and related areas.
Margaret Wachenfeld
Senior research fellow at the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB).
Academy Fellows
Carlos Ayala
Vice-president, Executive Committee, International Commission of Jurists,听Geneva, Switzerland
Currently conducting research on the Implementation of Judgements of the Inter-American Human Rights Court at the Domestic Level under the supervision of Professor Robert K. Goldman.
Andr茅s Gonz谩lez
Former Ambassador to the OAS, Colombia听
Currently conducting research on a special project dedicated to portrait violence and mortality indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean to create prevention strategies.
Viancy Ortiz 听
小蓝视频WCL Alumni '18, LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington, D.C.
Currently conducting research on multiple Human Rights violations in the massive Trial in Equatorial Guinea, published website of the Center for Human Rights of the ABA.