News

Prof. Karen Engle (co-director) & Cooper Christiancy (chief of operations) participated in the "Disarmament from the Margins" conference in Glasgow. Read Engle's co-written article about the event.

Spring 2025 Barbara Harlow Intern, Selina Wu, explores how today’s book bans threaten literary freedom and silence marginalized voices through the lens of resistance literature and human rights.

In June 2025, the Center collaborated with the Chagos Refugees Group, Dentons Mauritius, and Harvard IGLP on a workshop to develop legal frameworks for a just resettlement of the Chagos Islands.

We are pleased to publish Benjamin Goh's paper, "Reciting Law After Auschwitz."

We are pleased to publish Ella Tan's paper, "Victim, Criminal, Worker, or Lover? The Discourses of Anti-Sex Trafficking & the Lived Realities of Commercialized Sex in Southeast Asia."

Summer 2024 Barbara Harlow Intern, Charles Ozuna, analyzes legal justifications for torture in the U.S., drawing on personal stories to illustrate Barbara Harlow’s argument about the toll of torture.

UN experts visited Austin to conduct consultations for the UN Committees’ forthcoming joint recommendation on addressing and eradicating xenophobia and its impact on the rights of migrants.

We are pleased to publish Leah Tharakan's paper, "Empowering Voices: Education and Reproductive Justice in New Delhi’s GB Road."

In the year after Dobbs, there were at least 210 prosecutions related to pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth nationwide – the highest number of criminal cases documented in a single year.

Check out our latest Annual Review, which highlights our Disarming Toxic Empire conference, the Farenthold lecture delivered by Kathryn Bond Stockton, and programming on literature and global justice.