Faculty and Staff

Director:
Ryan Goodman
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/rgoodman

Ryan Goodman is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and the Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. He clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has worked at the U.S. Department of State, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and non-governmental organizations in India, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.

Professor Goodman’s publications include International Human Rights in Context (Oxford University Press, 3d ed., forthcoming 2007) (with Henry Steiner & Philip Alston); International Humanitarian Law (forthcoming, Oxford University Press 2007) (with Derek Jinks); Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights through International Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (with Derek Jinks); “Humanitarian Intervention and Pretexts for War,” 99 American Journal of International Law 107 (2006); “International Law, U.S. War Powers, and the Global War on Terrorism,” 118 Harvard Law Review 2653 (2005) (with Derek Jinks); “International Institutions and the Mechanisms of War,” 99 American Journal of International Law 507 (2005); “How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law,” 54 Duke Law Journal 621 (2004) (with Derek Jinks); “Toward an Institutional Theory of Sovereignty,” 55 Stanford Law Review 1749 (2003) (with Derek Jinks); “Measuring the Effects of Human Rights Treaties,” 13 European Journal of International Law 171 (2003) (with Derek Jinks); “Human Rights Treaties, Invalid Reservations, and State Consent,” 96 American Journal of International Law 531 (2002).

Executive Director and Clinical Professor of Law:
Jim Cavallaro

Jim Cavallaro joined the Human Rights Program in 2002, and is the Executive Director for HRP, and a Clinical Professor of Law. Professor Cavallaro is the former director of the Global Justice Center, a Brazilian human rights NGO that he founded in 1999. Prior to that, he 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, he 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, Professor 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). Professor Cavallaro speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently.

Academic Director and Lecturer on Law:
Mindy Jane Roseman

Mindy Jane Roseman is the Academic Director of the Human Rights Program, a lecturer on law, and an Instructor in the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard School of Public Health. 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, Harvard School of Public Health. Roseman 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, U.S. 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.

Clinical Director and Lecturer on Law:
Tyler Giannini

Tyler Giannini is the Clinical Director of HRP, and a Lecturer on Law. Prior to coming to HLS, 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).

Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law:
Binaifer Nowrojee

Binaifer Nowrjoee is a clinical instructor and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School. She is currently the director of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa. After graduating from Columbia Law School, Nowrojee worked for numerous human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch for eleven years, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Amnesty International and the Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights. Nowrojee is the author of numerous articles and books on human rights, including the areas of humanitarian intervention, gender-based violations, and forced displacement. Nowrojee is the author of numerous publications, including “Making the Invisible War Crime Visible: Post-Conflict Justice for Sierra Leone’s Rape Victims,” 18 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 139 (2005), “Africa on its Own: Regional Intervention and Human Rights,” Human Rights Watch, and “The ICTR and Justice for Sexual Violence in Rwanda,” and “We Can Do Better: Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes of Sexual Violence,” International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Clinical Instructor:
Bonnie Docherty

Bonnie Docherty is a former Clinical Advocacy Fellow and current Clinical Instructor with HRP. Docherty spent the previous four years at Human Rights Watch, participating on fact-finding missions to Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, 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.

Clinical Advocacy Fellow:
Sharanjeet Parmar

Sharanjeet Parmar is a 2006-07 Clinical Advocacy Fellow with the Human Rights Program’s International Human Rights Clinic. Before joining HRP, 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. Read a profile of Sharanjeet Parmar here.

Communications Coordinator:
Michael Jones

Michael Jones joined the staff of the Human Rights Program in August 2006. He is the former communications director of Pax Christi USA, a national Catholic social justice organization with offices in Washington and Pennsylvania, where he coordinated media outreach, publications and website design. He previously worked as a field organizer for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone in Minnesota, and served on the board of Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Photomedia Center, and continues to write freelance articles for national secular and religious publications. Jones has an M.A. in Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in Social Work and Political Science from Mercyhurst College.

Financial Manager:
Kara Colannino

Kara Colannino joined the Human Rights Program in July 2006. She has worked at Harvard University for nine years, having spent the last six at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS). In her role as a Financial Administrator at DEAS, she assisted more than 30 professors in managing $26 million dollars in federal grants. Kara has a B.S. in Business Administration from Emmanuel College.

Program Assistant:
Meredith Hubbell

Meredith Hubbell joined the Human Rights Program in December 2005 after graduating from Trinity College (Hartford, CT) with a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish. Upon graduating, Meredith worked as a medical interpreter before participating in a human rights delegation to Guatemala. In the future, Meredith would like to pursue human rights education as a medium for effecting change. Meredith is fluent in Spanish.