Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Human Rights Institute (HRI) at Columbia Law School. Appropriately, it also marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the foundational instrument of the modern international human rights regime.
When HRI was founded in 1998, it was established as a crossroads for human rights at Columbia, which would bridge theory and practice, human rights and constitutional rights, and law and other disciplines. From its inception, HRI has been a partner with the university-wide Center for the Study of Human Rights, which was established twenty years earlier as an interdisciplinary program to bring human rights scholarship into many academic fields. The Law School-based Institute was the brainchild of Professor Louis Henkin, who, as a founder of the university-wide program, recognized the need to train a new generation of human rights advocates, scholars, and teachers through scholarship regarding the law of human rights.
Disciplines
Human Rights Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Sarah H. Cleveland & Catherine Powell,
Human Rights in the United States,
40
Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev.
1
(2008).
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https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2204