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SSRN Human Rights and the Global Economy Online Journal Celebrates 25,000 Downloads

October 2007--Northeastern University School of Law takes great pride in celebrating the milestone of 25,000 downloads from our Human Rights and the Global Economy online journal published by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a consortium that allows scholars to share their research long before papers work their way through the journal refereeing and publication process.

The Human Rights and the Global Economy journal is sponsored by the law school's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, and includes contributions from scholars worldwide. It is an interdisciplinary forum for posting abstracts, works-in-progress and completed scholarly works in law and policy related areas. The journal encourages scholars to submit work that addresses human rights on the international level as well as their promotion and realization "on the ground" in domestic and local contexts. Similarly, the journal invites scholarly works that engage the implications of development or global economic issues at community, national and regional levels in the Global South (including poor and otherwise marginalized communities located in the geographic North) as well as the broader impact on South-North law and policy as a whole.

Papers published by the journal include a petition from African-Americans to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The petition details abuses the survivors suffered during early 20th century racial violence in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was co-authored by leading civil and human rights lawyers Gay McDougall, UN special representative on minority groups, and Charles Ogletree, Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard. The journal also published an influential human rights report on the Katrina disaster by Arjun Sengupta, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty. In addition to its weekly issues, the journal has published a special issue consisting of papers from the recent Third World and International Law Conference held at Albany Law School.

The journal is edited by professors Hope Lewis, Wendy Parmet and Rashmi Dyal-Chand, and works with an international advisory committee composed of leading scholars in the fields of international human rights, economic and social development, and the global economy.