MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice

The MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice (PHRJ), is "a collaborative effort between the Center for International Studies and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

"Established in 2001, the Program on Human Rights and Justice aims to create a cutting-edge inter-disciplinary environment for research, teaching, curricular development and real-world application in human rights, especially relating to the global economy and science and technology. It is the first human rights program in a leading technology school and the first in the world with a specific focus on the human rights aspects of economic, scientific and technological developments. Cross-cultural dimensions of human welfare, security and dignity animate all the activities of the Program."


 * Director - Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Faculty Council
Accessed July 2008:


 * Alice Amsden - Barton L. Wellor Professor of Political Economy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
 * Nicholas Ashford - Professor of Technology and Policy, Director, Technology and Law Program
 * Diane Davis - Professor of Political Sociology, Head, International Development Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
 * John Dower - Ford International Professor of History, History Faculty
 * Michael Fischer - Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology Program
 * Jean Jackson - Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology Program
 * Erica James - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
 * Kenneth Keniston - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Human Development, Program in Science, Technology and Society
 * Jonathan King - Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology
 * Thomas Kochan - George M. Bunker Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management
 * Richard Locke - Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science, Sloan School of Management, and Department of Political Science
 * Roger Petersen - Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
 * Michael Piore - David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science
 * Nasser Rabbat - Aga Khan Professor of the History of Islamic Architecture, Director, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Department of Architecture
 * Bish Sanyal - Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning, Director, SPURS and Humphrey Programs, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
 * Mriganka Sur - Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
 * Judith Tendler - Professor of Political Economy, Class of 1960 Fellow, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
 * Elizabeth Wood - Professor of History, History Faculty and Program in Women’s Studies

Current Fellows
Accessed July 2008:


 * Anat Biletzki
 * Jung-Hoon Kim

Past Fellows
Accessed July 2008:


 * Florian Wettstein
 * Louise Druke
 * Miriam Zoll
 * Gary Troeller
 * Obiora Chinedu Okafor
 * Arturo Alvarado Mendoza
 * Shahid Nanavati
 * Gabrielle Watson
 * June-Ho Jang
 * Flore Trautmann

International Advisory Board
Accessed July 2008:


 * Philip Alston - John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
 * Kwame Anthony Appiah - Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
 * Upendra Baxi - Professor of Law in Development, Warwick University School of Law
 * Hilary Charlesworth - Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Director, Centre for International Governance and Justice, Australian National University College of Law
 * Noam Chomsky - Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Radhika Coomaraswamy - Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka
 * Richard Falk - Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University
 * Tom Farer - Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
 * Yash Ghai - Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
 * Sheila Jasanoff - Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
 * Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer - Supreme Court of India (retired)
 * Justice Michael Kirby - High Court of Australia
 * Martti Koskenniemi - Director, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki Faculty of Law
 * Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé - Supreme Court of Canada (retired)
 * Mahmood Mamdani - Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
 * Martha Minow - Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
 * Vitit Muntarbhorn - Professor of Law, Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Law, Thailand
 * Wolfgang Sachs - Senior Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany
 * Amartya Sen - Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
 * Boauventura de Sousa Santos - Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra School of Economics, Portugal, and Distinguished Legal Scholar University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
 * Henry Steiner - Director, Human Rights Program, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School
 * Justice C.G. Weeramantry - Vice President, International Court of Justice (retired)

Contact

 * Web: http://mit.edu/phrj