 
| Deena R. Hurwitz Assistant Professor of Law, General Faculty Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic and Human Rights Program J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1996 B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1980 Deena Hurwitz joined the faculty in 2003 as director of the human rights program and the International Human Rights Law Clinic. From 2000-03, Hurwitz was the Robert M. Cover/ Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights with the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. While at Yale she co-supervised the law school’s human rights clinic, coordinated events sponsored by the Schell Center, and taught International Human Rights at Yale College. Before entering academia, Hurwitz served as a legal counselor with the Washington Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. She spent 1997-99 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she was director of the International Human Rights Law Group’s Bosnia program for 14 months. The program’s work included a report on women’s human rights and development of a training program on employment discrimination. Before joining the Law Group, Hurwitz served as an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) liaison officer to the Human Rights Coordination Centre of the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1997, Hurwitz worked in Ramallah (Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territory) with the Centre for International Human Rights Enforcement, as executive administrator for a project involving human rights enforcement under a European Union-Israel trade agreement. She has also been a consultant with the Women’s Division of Human Rights Watch, investigating violations of women’s rights under Morocco’s Family Code. Before attending law school at Northeastern University, she worked more than 10 years for the California-based Resource Center for Nonviolence, where she was involved in capacity building and training with non-governmental organizations in the United States and the Middle East. Between 1981 and 1993, she led regular delegations of U.S. citizens on study tours of the Middle East, and spent a sabbatical year (1989-1990) in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. A member of the Massachusetts bar, Hurwitz has edited Walking the Red Line, Israelis in Search of Justice for Palestine (New Society Publishers, 1992), and authored “Lawyering for Justice and the Inevitability of International Human Rights Clinics” (Yale J. Int’l L., 2003). More recently, she has served as a consultant with Global Rights in Afghanistan, and with the Center for Justice and Accountability in Lebanon. Hurwitz participated in a Fulbright Symposium on Peace and Human Rights Education at the University of Melbourne in June 2005. | |
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