Welcome to the Rapoport Center

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. Our goal is to promote the economic and political enfranchisement of marginalized individuals and groups both locally and globally. We invite you to explore this site to learn more about our work at the intersection of academics and advocacy.

Watch our recent webinar event on reproductive justice in Texas

Check out our 2021-2022 Annual Review

Upcoming Events

November 29, 2022
Virtual Book Talk: Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care

Professor Wendy A. Bach of the University of Tennessee College of Law will discuss her new book, "Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care," which focuses on Tennessee’s fetal assault law as an example of the criminalization of care in poor communities.
February 15, 2023
Dorothy Roberts: Annual Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights

The eighth annual Sissy Farenthold Lecture will feature acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, Dorothy Roberts, who will discuss the rising entanglement of pregnancy criminalization and family policing and the need for reproductive justice and abolitionist approaches to contest it.

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Latest News

October 27, 2022

Arti Gupta is our 2022 Audre Rapoport Writing Prize Winner!

We are pleased to publish Arti Gupta's paper, "The Unhappy Marriage of ‘Queerness’ and ‘Culture’: The Present Implications of Fixating on the Past."

October 6, 2022

2021-2022 Annual Review Now Available

Check out our latest Annual Review, which highlights the celebration of Sissy Farenthold's life, the Farenthold lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy, our webinar on post-Roe strategies, and much more!

August 8, 2022

Welcome our new Postgraduate Fellow, Cooper Christiancy!

June 24, 2022

The Rapoport Center Addresses the Ongoing Struggles for Reproductive and Sexual Justice

We write to express our own sense of grievance and injustice, anguish and anger over today’s Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturns Roe v. Wade.

May 2, 2022

New Working Paper — “A Clean Slate for No One: The Need for Automatic Expungement Policies”

Michael Hiestand provides a critical race perspective, through a comparative analysis in New Jersey and Alabama, to emerging literature on the uptake rate of expungement policies.

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