Professor Julia Hernandez ’12 receives the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Ottawa, and Professor Lisa Davis ’08 receives the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to the Netherlands.
Professor Julia Hernandez ’12 is Awarded the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Ottawa
Fulbright Canada is pleased to announce that Julia Hernandez of CUNY Law has received the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Ottawa.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Julia will work with the Human Rights Research and Education Centre to study the 2016 landmark Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling that Canada discriminated against First Nations children and their families by under-funding children’s services.
Julia will research the history of the efforts leading to the decision through the lens of movement lawyering to understand the grassroots organizing that animated the efforts and how lawyers worked with the non-profits that led the campaign.
Further, using the Caring Society case as an example, she hopes to explore how systematic human rights litigation combined with grassroots organizing — rather than interventions within the family regulation system itself — might be useful in addressing the injustices of such systems in the U.S.
You can send well-wishes and accolades to Julia here.
Professor Lisa Davis ’08 is Awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to the Netherlands to Teach Gender and Conflict at the Leiden School of Law.
“International lawyering requires a deliberate exploration of the deeply rooted cultural assumptions that claim us, ensuring we continually refine our critical perspectives to be thoughtful advocates for the communities we serve. As a Fulbright scholar, it is this rich cultural exchange that I hope to both contribute to and take home with me.”
The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Lisa Davis of CUNY Law has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to the Netherlands.
Lisa Davis will lecture at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden School of Law in the Netherlands as part of a project to teach a fall course on gender and conflict at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden School of Law in the Netherlands.
The class will explore the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of the emerging paradigm on gender persecution as crimes against humanity through the study of real-world conflicts.
Professor Davis also plans to build the relationship between the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic and the Grotius Centre, enhancing faculty scholarship and student education at both institutions through the creation of the LGBTIQ Crimes in Conflict Observatory (the “Observatory”).
Housed at the CUNY School of Law and co-created with the Grotius Centre, this web-based research hub will provide real-time information about conflict-related gender persecution crimes committed against women and LGBTIQ persons and other gender transgressors.
The Observatory will provide a platform for in-house documentation and consolidate scattered data from across the globe. It will help raise public awareness and generate policy recommendations to address such crimes. No law school in the world has an online resource center dedicated to documenting women and LGBTIQ violations in conflict and atrocity contexts globally. The Observatory will be the first of its kind to create a virtual academic platform for scholars, practitioners, experts, advocates, and students to document and analyze LGBTIQ crimes in conflict, and develop policy strategies that promote accountability.
You can send well-wishes and accolades to Lisa here.