Jacqueline Bhabha

2012-2013 Academic Year

Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law

Appointments

• Executive Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
• Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law

Additional Information

Ms. Bhabha will teach the course Children, Youth and International Human Rights in the Spring term 2013.

Biographical Statement

Jacqueline Bhabha is Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, Director of Research at Harvard's Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the University Adviser on Human Rights Education to the Provost at Harvard University. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London. She has published extensively on issues of migration, refugee protection, children's rights and citizenship. She is the editor of Children Without A State (2011) and author of the forthcoming book, Moving Children: Child Migration in the 21st Century (2012). She is the joint author of Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection (2006), Women's Movement: Women under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law (1994) and Worlds Apart: Women (1990). She serves on the board of the Scholars at Risk Network, the World Peace Foundation and the Journal of Refugee Studies. She is also a founder of the Alba Collective, an international women's NGO currently working with rural women and girls in developing countries to enhance financial security and youth rights.