Ariel E. Dulitzky
- Clinical Professor
Ariel Dulitzky is a clinical professor of law, director of the Human Rights Clinic, and director of the Latin America Initiative at Texas Law. An expert in the inter-American human rights system, he has served on the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and as Assistant Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Professor Dulitzky is an honors graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, with an LLM from Harvard Law School. His research and publications focus on human rights, racial discrimination, and the rule of law in Latin America.
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Latin American constitutional approaches to sports and human rights
Latin American constitutional approaches to sports and human rights
Ariel Dulitzky is Clinical Professor of Law, the Director of the Human Rights Clinic and the Director of the Latin America Initiative. He is also an affiliated faculty of the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He is a leading expert in the inter-American human rights system. In 2010 he was appointed to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and elected as its Chair-Rapporteur in 2013 (2013-2015). Prior to joining the University of Texas, he was Assistant Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Professor Dulitzky is an honors graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. He received his LLM from Harvard Law School in 1999, where he was an editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He served as a law clerk for a Federal Circuit Court in Argentina.
A native of Argentina, Professor Dulitzky has dedicated his career to human rights—in both his scholarly research and his legal practice. His extensive expertise is derived from active involvement in the promotion and defense of rights, particularly in the Americas and in international human rights litigation. His publications focus on human rights, the inter-American human rights system, enforced disappearances, afro-descendants and indigenous collective rights, racial discrimination and the rule of law in Latin America. He has taught at the University of Buenos Aires and the Washington College of Law at American University.
Recently, Professor Dulitzky has become interested in exploring the intersection between sports and human rights. He has been teaching a seminar on International Sports and Human Rights Law. Currently, he serves as the chair of the Student Athletes and Activities Committee ath the University of Texas at Austin.
Dulitzky received the 2007 Gary Bellow Public Service Award from Harvard Law School for his career in human rights. He has served as advisor to the IACHR's first Special Rapporteur on Afro-Descendants that he helped to establish in 2005. He has been an advisor to the second edition of the Amnesty International Fair Trial Manual and a member of the advisory panel for the revision of the UN Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extralegal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions. Previously, Professor Dulitzky was the Latin America Program Director at the International Human Rights Law Group and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). Professor Dulitzky has directed the litigation of more than 100 cases in front of the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Invited Speaker” at Senate of the Republic of Mexico, Commission on Human Rights (November 6, 2017). -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Interviewee” at CNN Español (October 25, 2017). View online. -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Interviewee” at Americas Program: A new world of action and communication for social change (October 10, 2017). View online. -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Presentation” at Tlachinollan Centro de Derechos Humanos de La Montaña in Guerrero, Mexico (August 8, 2017). -
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Desapariciones Forzadas: Las Contribuciones de América Latina y de José Zalaquett
Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Desapariciones Forzadas: Las Contribuciones de América Latina y de José Zalaquett.” (2017). View online. -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Interviewee” at CNN Español (July 1, 2017). View online. -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Presenter” at Mexico City (June 21, 2017). View online. -
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Presentation: “Ariel Dulitzky: Reflexiones sobre su experiencia en contra de las desapariciones forzadas”
Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Presentation: “Ariel Dulitzky: Reflexiones sobre su experiencia en contra de las desapariciones forzadas”” at Museum of Memory and Tolerance, Mexico City (June 21, 2017). View online. -
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Chair of Panel Discussion
Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Chair of Panel Discussion” at Mexico City (June 21, 2017). -
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Amazon Network of Human Rights Clinics: Organizing Committee Member, Panelist, Coordinator, Speaker
Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Amazon Network of Human Rights Clinics: Organizing Committee Member, Panelist, Coordinator, Speaker” at University of Brasília School of Law (June 6-8, 2017). -
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Derechos humanos en Latinoamérica y el Sistema Interamericano, Modelos para (des)armar
Ariel E. Dulitzky. Derechos humanos en Latinoamérica y el Sistema Interamericano, Modelos para (des)armar ( Instituto de Estudios Constitucionales del Estado de Querétaro, June 2017). View online. -
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Moderator: Domestic courts and International bodies in the fight against impunity
Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Moderator: Domestic courts and International bodies in the fight against impunity” at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C. (May 19, 2017). View online. -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Interviewee” at Texas Public Radio, "The Source," Austin, Texas (May 15, 2017). View online. -
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Provided briefing on conditions in TDCJ death row confinement
Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Provided briefing on conditions in TDCJ death row confinement” at Texas Capitol (May 4, 2017). -
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Workshop Chair, Session Organizer, and Panel Discussant
Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Workshop Chair, Session Organizer, and Panel Discussant” at XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Lima, Peru (April 29-May 1, 2017). View online. -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Invited commentator” at Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos, Lima, Peru (April 28, 2017). -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Interviewee” at Texas Standard (April 26, 2017). View online. -
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La memoria en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
Ariel E. Dulitzky. “La memoria en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.” In La Lucha por los Derechos Humanos hoy Estudios en Homenaje a Cecilia Medina Quiroga, (April 2017). View online. -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Presentation” at Sid Richardson Hall, University of Texas at Austin (March 21, 2017). -
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Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Presentation” at Sid Richardson Hall, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections (March 21, 2017).