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Global Human Rights Hub

 

 

International Law

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Our Mission 

The working group on international law studies the place of the human-rights protection regime in the overall system of global governance. We are interested in the relationships and interactions between the legal institutions that are tasked with the protection of human rights and democratic institutions that represent voices of peoples. Our work examines the ways that international law can improve or exacerbate domestic human rights violations with special attention to the ways that social groups invoke treaty language to frame their demands. Our work is interdisciplinary and employs both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the impact of international law on human rights.

Leading Faculty

 

 

photo of ComstockAudrey Comstock is an assistant professor of political science and human rights in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Her research lies at the intersection of political science, international relations and international law. More specifically, her work focuses international human rights law, the United Nations, global women’s and LGBT rights and international peacekeeping.

 


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Heather Smith-Cannoy is an associate professor of political science whose work focuses on human rights and international law.  She is especially interested in the effects of international law on the rights of women. Her other research interests include sex trafficking, women and children’s rights, public health, migration and statelessness.

 

 


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Daniel Rothenberg is professor of practice, School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, co-director of the Center on the Future of War, and a senior fellow at New America. Previously, he was the founding executive director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, managing director of international projects at the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law, senior fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows.
 


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Amit Ron is an associate professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. His research focuses around two central themes: the political and normative dimensions of the history of political economy, and the democratic theory of the public sphere. Ron is particularly interested in the role of the public in the cognitive division of labor that is required for a social scientific inquiry.

 


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Candace Rondeaux is a professor of practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies and a senior fellow with the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. A veteran analyst of the conflict in South Asia and expert on U.S. and international security affairs, she has served as a strategic advisor to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and senior program officer at U.S. Institute of Peace where she launched the RESOLVE Network, a global research consortium on violent extremism. Her research interests include the dynamics of sectarian violence, governance and political Islam in modern Muslim majority states, Soviet and post-Soviet affairs and post-conflict reconstruction.


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Victor Peskin is an associate professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University and a senior research fellow at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. His teaching and scholarship lie at the intersection of international law, international relations, and comparative politics. More specifically, his work focuses on the United Nations ad hoc international criminal tribunals, the International Criminal Court, and other international and hybrid accountability institutions.

 


Jonas GamsoJonas Gamso is an associate professor in the Thunderbird School of Global Management, as well as a Senior Global Futures scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. Professor Gamso has published studies on international trade, foreign aid, and foreign investment in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of World Business, and World Development. His classes include States and Markets in the Global EconomyInternational Trade and Regional Economic Agreements, and Global Affairs Methods. He is also the academic director of the UN Global Compact’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Innovation Accelerator program at Thunderbird.


Rhett Larson
Rhett Larson is the Richard Morrison Professor of Water Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. He is also a senior research fellow with the Kyl Center for Water Policy at ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Professor Larson’s research and teaching interests are in property law, administrative law, and environmental and natural resource law, in particular, domestic and international water law and policy. Larson’s research focuses on the impact of technological innovation on water rights regimes, in particularly transboundary waters, and on the sustainability implications of a human right to water.