Elisabeth Wickeri
Executive Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice

CONTACT DETAILS
Email: wickeri@law.fordham.edu

CAREER
Education

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, J.D., 2004
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY-NANJING UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR CHINESE AND AMERICAN STUDIES, Graduate Certificate, 2001
SMITH COLLEGE, B.A., cum laude, 2000



Activities
  • Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice (2008-2009)
  • Secretary, Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers (2007–present)
  • Member, Committee on International Human Rights, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2006–2009)
  • Law Program Director, Human Rights in China (2007–2008)
  • Law Program Officer, Human Rights in China (2004–2007)
  • Executive Editor, NYU Review of Law & Social Change (2002–2004)
  • Legal Intern, Human Rights Watch, Asia Division (2004)
  • Legal Intern, Legal Resources Center, Constitutional Litigation Unit (Cape Town, South Africa) (2003)
  • Furman Legal Intern, Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) (2002)
  • Legal Intern, International Center for Transitional Justice (2001–2002)


PUBLICATIONS
  • No Justice, No Peace: Conflict, Socio-Economic Rights, and the New Constitution in Nepal, 2 Drexel Law Review 427 (2010)
  • Land Rights Issues in International Human Rights Law, Institute for Human Rights and Business Working Paper (with Anil Kalhan) (2009).
  • China’s Civil Society: Controls, Limits, and Role in a ‘Harmonious Society’, China Perspectives, No. 3, 118–125 (with Bonny Ling, Wing Lam, and Tina Tan) (2007)
  • China’s Growing Prominence in the Multilateral Human Rights System, China Rights Forum, No. 1, 22–28 (principal drafter) (2007)
  • Comparative International and Domestic Approaches to Addressing Human Rights Abuses: An HRIC Consultation Roundtable, China Rights Forum, No. 4, 33–36 (principal drafter) (2005)
  • Grootboom’s Legacy: Securing the Right to Access to Adequate Housing in South Africa?, NYU Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Working Papers Series, Working Paper No. 5 (2004)

Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Fordham University School of Law
33 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

Email: LeitnerCenter@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212.636.6862
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