

Elisabeth Wickeri
Executive Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
CONTACT DETAILS
Email: wickeri@law.fordham.edu
CAREER
Education
Activities
PUBLICATIONS
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)
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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)

























