The HHRJ staff is very excited to announce that Volume 27, Issue 1 has been published! Click below to read our articles and book note. ARTICLES Reflections on the Question of When, if Ever, Violence Is Justified in Struggles for Political or [...]

By Courtney Danae Paterson, Harvard Law School, J.D. 2016 In the era of post-9/11 politics, the weighty questions of identity, religion, and human rights center increasingly on the topics of the contested universal human rights framework, cultural relativism, and the role [...]

HHRJ’s 2014 Symposium, The Future of Business and Human Rights, was held on April 17, 2014. It kicked off with a lunch panel on the Alien Tort Statute involving a timely discussion of litigation strategies for holding corporations accountable for [...]

Payam Akhavan (Harvard LLM ’90 SJD ’01) is Professor of International Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He was previously Senior Fellow at Yale [...]

For Epistemological and Prudent Internationalism B.S. Chimni is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for International Legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown and Tokyo Universities. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard, Cambridge, [...]