STANFORD HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS
Description: news info on HR
faculty/ researchers/ visiting scholars/ students, major awards,
projects, publications, etc.
Each item will include links to people's webpages (if they
exist already), project/awards webpages, etc.
Joshua
Cohen, Terry
Karl and Jenny
Martinez awarded the 2008 Stanford's
Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies (PFIIS)
Grant. Click here for more
information.
The New York Times ran a story
on detainees in Afghanistan's Bagram
military base, some of whom are represented by Visiting Professor of
Law Barbara
Olshansky through her work with the International Justice
Network.
Professor Jenny Martinez
was profiled as one of eight
2007 "Up and Coming Lawyers" in Lawyers USA.
Jayashri
Srikantiah, the Stanford Law School Immigrants’
Rights Clinic and the ACLU began
arguing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a landmark case
challenging the government’s right to
indefinitely detain immigrants fighting their immigration cases. Read
the full story here.