Clinical Director and Clinical Professor of Law
James Cavallaro joined the Human Rights Program in 2002. Before coming to HLS, he directed the Global Justice Center, a Brazilian human rights NGO that he founded in 1999. Prior to that, Cavallaro directed the Brazil office of Human Rights Watch, where he began as an Orville Schell fellow. A 1992 order of the coif graduate of Boalt Hall (University of California, Berkeley), where he was an editor of the California Law Review, Cavallaro clerked for the Hon. Dolores K. Sloviter, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is the author of numerous publications on human rights issues, including a dozen reports written for Human Rights Watch, the Global Justice Center and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. After earning his A.B. from Harvard in 1984, and prior to earning his law degree, Cavallaro spent several years working with Central American refugees in El Paso and with political prisoners in Chile. Among his most recent works are “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). Cavallaro speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently. His email address is: jcavalla@law.harvard.edu.

Associate Clinical Director and Lecturer on Law
Tyler Giannini joined HRP in 2004 as Clinical Advocacy Fellow. Prior to coming to the Law School, Tyler was co-director of EarthRights International (ERI), an organization at the forefront of efforts to link human rights and environmental protection. As a founder of ERI, Giannini spent the past decade in Thailand conducting investigative fact-finding efforts on human rights abuses in Burma and groundbreaking corporate accountability litigation. In particular, Giannini was co-counsel in the landmark Doe v. Unocal litigation; the case sought to hold the corporation accountable for abuses surrounding the Yadana gas pipeline project in Burma, and was settled in early 2005. Giannini holds graduate degrees in law and foreign policy from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the law review. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, and has co-authored several major publications including Total Denial Continues: Earth Rights Abuses along the Yadana and Yetagun Pipelines in Burma (2002) and Earth Rights: Linking the Quests for Human Rights and Environmental Protection (1999). His email address is: giannini@law.harvard.edu.

Academic Director
Mindy Jane Roseman is also an Instructor in the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Before joining HRP, Roseman was Senior Research Officer at the International Health and Human Rights Program, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, HSPH. There, she researched and reported on a range of health and human rights issues, with special focus on reproductive and sexual rights, including HIV and AIDS, and women’s and children’s rights. Before coming to Harvard she had been a staff attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York, in charge of its East and Central European program. After graduating from Northwestern University Law School in 1986, she clerked for Judge John F. Grady, Chief Judge, US District Court, Northern District, IL. She also holds a doctorate in Modern European History with a focus on the history of reproductive health from Columbia University. Her publications include Beyond Words: Images from America’s Concentration Camps (co-authored with Deborah Gesensway) (Cornell University Press 1987) and Women of the World ( East Central Europe): Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives (CRLP, 2000). Her current research projects include a critical evaluation of international reproductive health and rights policies, and a history of the eugenics and human rights movements in France. Her email address is: mroseman@law.harvard.edu.

Clinical Instructor
Bonnie Docherty spent the previous four years at Human Rights Watch, for which she went on fact-finding missions to Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Darfur. Her HRW publications include "Fatally Flawed: Cluster Bombs and Their Use by the United States in Afghanistan," "Off Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq" (co-authored), and "Reading between the 'Red Lines': The Repression of Academic Freedom in Egyptian Universities." She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her A.B. from Harvard University. Her email address is: bdocherty@law.harvard.edu.

Clinical Advocacy Fellow
Sharanjeet Parmar is a 2006-2007 clinical fellow with the Human Rights Program’s International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Human Rights Program, Parmar served as a trial attorney to the Office of the Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where her areas of focus included the use of child soldiers, gender crimes and economic crimes investigations. In addition to appearing in trials prosecuting alleged perpetrators of war crimes, Parmar directed and supervised field investigations and facilitated the testimony of expert witnesses on crimes against children, gender-based violence, forensics and military operations. Parmar has also served as a legal aid manager with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Sudan, initiating a community-based legal aid program in the south, and worked as a human rights lawyer in India with the HIV/AIDS unit of the Lawyers Collective in Delhi and Mumbai. Parmar has spoken on panels for various national and international conferences on HIV/AIDS-related issues, and is the author of numerous articles and reports on human rights, including the forthcoming “Child Witnesses and the Special Court or Sierra Leone,” published by the Peace-building and Development Institute at American University’s School of International Service. Parmar is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and holds an LL.B (‘99) from Dalhousie Law School, Halifax and an LL.M (‘06) in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law. Parmar can be reached at sparmar@law.harvard.edu.

Clinical Advocacy Fellow
Adrienne Fricke is a 2006-2007 clinical fellow at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania’s Law School, Fricke served as a law clerk to Judge Sandra Mazer Moss in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, providing legal research and support for complex civil litigation. As a lawyer with extensive experience investigating and researching human rights violations, Fricke was a member of the Coalition for International Justice’s Atrocities Documentation Team, where she traveled to refugee camps in eastern Chad to take witness statements from Darfur refugees, focusing on the killing of civilians, rape and other sexual violence, and the destruction of villages. Fricke has lived in Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt, and has traveled extensively throughout the region. As a Fulbright Scholar in Syria, Fricke interviewed former political prisoners regarding their cultural and intellectual production while in Syrian prisons. She continued this work during her fellowship at the Centre for Behavioural Research at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon. While a Fellow at the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad at the American University in Cairo, Fricke also worked as a fixer for U.S. journalists in the Middle East, arranging meetings and providing translation services for newspapers including The Miami Herald, The Baltimore Sun, and The Chicago Tribune. Fricke is fluent in Arabic, Spanish, and French. She contributed translations of Egyptian statutes to Imperialism, Art and Restitution (forthcoming from Oxford University Press), and is the author of “Forever Nearing the Finish Line: Memory, Amnesia, and Nostalgia in the Recovery of Post-War Beirut,” in the International Journal of Cultural Property 12:2 (Cambridge University Press, May 2005). In addition to her J.D., she holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University and a B.A. in African Studies from Yale University. Fricke can be reached at africke@law.harvard.edu.