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The Center for Law & Global Justice, the Human Rights Working Group, and the McCarthy Center for Public Policy and the Common Good Announce the 2007-2008 Human Rights Research Fellowship Recipients.
The Center, in conjunction with the Human Rights Working Group, and the McCarthy Center are pleased to announce the recipients of the Human Rights Research Fellowships. Each Fellow receives a grant of $5,000 to support research in the field of human rights and is designated a Center for Law & Global Justice Fellow. The Fellowships seek to further the University's mission of Educating Minds and Hearts to Change the World, and to pursue justice and human rights campus-wide by encouraging mission-focused scholarship. Congratulations to

Prof. Elizabeth Jay Friedman, College of Arts & Sciences, for her project entitled "Seeking Sexual and Reproductive Rights: an Argentine Assessment"

Prof. Shabnam Koirala-Azad, School of Education, for his project entitled "The Development of a Human Rights Curriculum for Children in Post-Conflict Nepal"

Prof. Jeffrey Paris, College of Arts & Sciences, for his project entitled "U.S. Abolitionism and the Gloabl War Prison"

Prof. Susan Robert Katz, School of Education, for her project entitled "Educating for Human Rights in a Post-9/11 World: Research and Pedagogical Tools"

Call for Papers: Human Rights and Academic Repression

USF and CLGJ Awarded JHET Foundation Grant

The USF School of Law and Professor Connie de la Vega received a grant for the JHET Foundation to create a strategy to eliminate the sentence of life without possibility of parole for juvenile offenders as a violation of international human rights.

Michelle Leighton Joins the Center for Law and Global Justice

Michelle Leighton joins the Center to work on the issues of eliminating life without possibility of parole for juveniles and corporate responsibility.

Announcements for Summer 2007 Student Internships
Summer 2007 Classes: Bilbao, Spain and Phnom Penh, Cambodia