Why Elie Wiesel's 'Night' Still Matters so Much to Me – and All of Us
Words tend to fail us most in two circumstances — in the face of profound evil and of transcendent decency.
Research
The Ties that Bind: How Armed Groups Use Violence to Create Social Cohesion
How do armed groups use violence to create social ties? What are the conditions under which such violence takes place?
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
The Social Construction of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights
The United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) in June 2011.
Girl Child Marriage as a Risk Factor for Early Childhood Development and Stunting
This paper quantitatively examines the intergenerational effects of girl child marriage, or the developmental and health outcomes of children born to women who marry before age 18.
Human Mobility and the Longue Durée: The Prehistory of Global Migration Law
The long history of human migration sets the stage for a probing engagement with current migration law and the challenges of bringing it into alignment with contemporary needs and rights.
The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity
We compare the ideological balance of the legal academy to the ideological balance of the legal profession.
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
A Longitudinal Survey of Newly-Released Prisoners: Methods and Design of the Boston Reentry Study
GROWTH IN AMERICAN prison and jail populations over the last 40 years has propelled the U.S.
Reclaiming Adolescence: A Roma Youth Perspective
In this article, the authors present data gathered in the Reclaiming Adolescence research project, which investigated the educational hardships of Roma youth by comparing their experiences with their
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