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Check out The Center's latest Annual Review, which highlights our Fall 2020 colloquium, Summer 2021 Pop-Up Institute, and much more!

We are pleased to announce Laura Petersen's paper, "An Ethos of Restitution: Walter Schwarz and the Gloss," as the winner of the 2021 Zipporah B. Wiseman Prize.

We are delighted to welcome our new cohort of undergraduate interns and human rights law scholars.

Khan's chapter is called “The Indebted Among the “Free”: Producing Indian Labor through the Layers of Racial Capitalism.”

We mourn the loss of our good friend, colleague, and Rapoport Center faculty affiliate Zipporah B. Wiseman.

The study found that political decisions, including Gov. Greg Abbott's mandate to allow construction work to continue during the coronavirus pandemic's outset, placed employees in that sector at risk.

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice’s recent report on the inordinate effects of COVID-19 on Austin’s construction workers is damning, but not surprising.

Economic policies and rapid growth in Austin led to COVID-19 outbreaks among mostly Latino construction workers in the area, a new report finds.