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The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice serves as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice. We invite you to explore this site to learn more about our work at the intersection of academics and advocacy.

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June 15, 2018

Barbara Hines receives Ohtli Award

Congratulations to former Steering Committee member, Barbara Hines, for winning this year’s Ohtli Award from the Government of Mexico!

May 11, 2018

New Working Paper > “The Production of Precarity: How US Immigration ‘Status’ Affects Work in Central Texas”

This paper analyzes how US immigration law exacerbates the precarity of immigrants’ work in ways that demonstrate that insecure work is not a function of the neoliberal economic system alone...

May 7, 2018

Daniel Brinks and Abby Blass publish new book: The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America

Published by Cambridge University Press, the book uses case studies drawn from nineteen Latin American countries over forty years to reveal the ideas behind the new systems of constitutional justice.

April 30, 2018

Daniel Brinks and Abby Blass win I.CON Prize from International Journal of Constitutional Law

Their article "Rethinking Judicial Empowerment: The New Foundations of Constitutional Justice" was selected as the winner of the 2017 I.CON Prize. The article is part of a larger book project...

April 16, 2018

Spanish translation of Karen Engle’s book, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development, now available

En todo el mundo, los pueblos indígenas utilizan el derecho internacional para reclamar su patrimonio, territorio y desarrollo económico. Karen Engle hace un seguimiento de la historia de estas...

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