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Faculty Leaders in Human Rights

Many Northeastern law school faculty members engage in projects or scholarship on human rights issues. A Human Rights Interest Group meets regularly to discuss current human rights issues and support the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy's ongoing activities. The most recent faculty op-ed on human rights, focused on the need for a "civil Gideon," was published by Professor Martha Davis in the National Law Journal.

• Professor Dan Danielsen
• Professor Martha F. Davis
• Professor Margaret Y.K. Woo


• Patricia Voorhies, Administrative Coordinator

The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy was created as a result of the deep interest and long-standing work in human rights among our faculty, administrators and students. Among other things, this work takes the form of legal advocacy, activism and scholarship on workers' rights, poverty, public health, migration, racial, gender and sexual discrimination, disability rights, globalization, development and the environment. More than two-thirds of the faculty, as well as senior administrators, participate regularly in a Human Rights Interest Group that meets to discuss contemporary human rights issues. For faculty bios and descriptions of their extensive and groundbreaking human rights-related work, see http://www.slaw.neu.edu/faculty/faculty.htm.