James Cavallaro

Jim Cavallaro is the Executive Director for HRP, and a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Cavallaro is the former director of the Global Justice Center, a Brazilian human rights NGO. Prior to that, he directed the Brazil office of Human Rights Watch, where he began as an Orville Schell fellow, and worked to defend political prisoners in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship. Among his most recent works are Security in Paraguay: Analysis and Responses in Comparative Perspective, (Harvard University Press,/Human Rights Program Practice Series (forthcoming, March 2008) with J. Kopas, Y. Lam, T. Mayhle, S. Villagra); “Rejoinder: Justice Before Justiciability: Inter-American Litigation and Social Change,” 39 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 345 (2006) (with E. Schaffer), “Public Enemy Number Two?: Rising Crime and Human Rights Advocacy in Transitional Societies,” 18 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 139 (2005) (with M. Mohamedou); “Less as More: Rethinking Supranational Litigation of Economic and Social Rights in the Americas,” 56 Hastings L.J. 217 (2004) (with E. Schaffer), and "Toward Fair Play: A Decade of Transformation and Resistance in International Human Rights Litigation in Brazil," 3 U. Chi. J. Int'l L. 481 (2002). Professor Cavallaro speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently.

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