Our Faculty
The Academy’s Faculty are agents of change that through effort and dedication have strengthen avenues of protection for the advancement of human rights. Through our Faculty, the Academy offers relevant, empowering training for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in the international human rights system and laws.
AUWCL Faculty
Professor of Law and Louis C. James Scholar at American University Washington College of Law, Faculty Director, War Crimes Research Office and Co-Director of WCL’s Center For Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Member, International Law Commission, United Nations, and Dean Emeritus, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C.
Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists and Professor, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Experiential Education
Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Rapporteur and Member, Committee Against Torture (CAT), United Nations, and Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington, D.C.
Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Rebecca I. Grazier Professor of Law & International Relations
Director of The JD/MA Dual Degree Program
Visiting Faculty - English Courses
Visiting Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University & University of Windsor
Founding Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone & Former Under Secretary General, United Nations
Founder, Human Rights in Practice, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Professor of human rights and humanitarian law, Leiden University
Director and Professor of Law, Buffalo Human Rights Center, SUNY Buffalo Law School, State University of New York
Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Deputy Ambassador, Chargé d’Affaires at the Netherlands Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq, International Lawyer and Human Rights Defender Diplomat
Interim Executive Director, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), Washington, D.C.
Executive Director, International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers' Association (ICoCa), Geneva, Switzerland
Visiting Faculty - Spanish Courses
Former Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS) and Dean of Law, University of Los Andes, Colombia
Judge Constitutional Court of Andorra and Professor at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot
President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS), San José, Costa Rica
Professor of Public International Law, Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto, (Bilbao), Spain
Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Professor of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and International Consultant on Justice from Gender Perspective, Perú
Ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice, Appeals Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Former President, Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States, San José, Costa Rica
Online Faculty
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Jorge Araya
Secretary of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and an official of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Álvaro Botero
Human rights specialist with the Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants, Inter-american Commission on Human Rights.
Mikel Mancisidor
Vice-president of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations Organization.
Alexander Morawa
International legal scholar who specializes in international human rights law, public international law, (comparative) constitutional law, and related areas.
Margaret Wachenfeld
Senior research fellow at the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB).
Academy Fellows
Carlos Ayala
Vice-president, Executive Committee, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland
Currently conducting research on the Implementation of Judgements of the Inter-American Human Rights Court at the Domestic Level under the supervision of Professor Robert K. Goldman.
Andrés González
Former Ambassador to the OAS, Colombia
Currently conducting research on a special project dedicated to portrait violence and mortality indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean to create prevention strategies.
Viancy Ortiz
AUWCL Alumni '18, LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington, D.C.
Currently conducting research on multiple Human Rights violations in the massive Trial in Equatorial Guinea, published website of the Center for Human Rights of the ABA.