Rights Talk and Domestic Work
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Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College
Elizabeth Bernstein, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology, joined the faculty of Barnard in September, 2002. Her teaching includes such courses as Gender and Power in Transnational Perspective; The Sociology of Gender; and The Sociology of Sexuality. Professor Bernstein’s research and teaching focus on the sociology of gender and sexuality; the sociology of law; and contemporary social theory. Her current research explores the convergence of feminist, neoliberal, and evangelical Christian interests in the shaping of...
read moreDenise Brennan, Georgetown University
Denise Brennan is a cultural anthropologist whose research is informed by three concerns: migration, gender and labor. While these topics may be pursued across disciplines, anthropologists’ ethnographic methods enable Dr. Brennan to analyze their local contexts as they connect to larger forces of change. Her research illuminates urgent human rights concerns such as trafficking, women’s poverty, and migrant labor exploitation. She is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Brennan’s current book...
read moreFlorrie Burke, Freedom Network
Florrie Burke is a consultant on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery to both governmental and non governmental agencies. She is a founding member and currently a Co-Chair of the Freedom Network, serves as the Coordinator of the Freedom Network Training Institute and is on the Steering Committee of the NY Anti-Trafficking Network. She has done extensive training, speaking and consultation on Human Trafficking issues, trauma and torture both nationally and internationally. She has served as an Expert Witness on several high profile cases of...
read moreSea-Ling Cheng, Wellesley College
Sea-Ling Cheng is an anthropologist whose current research focuses on issues of sexuality, prostitution, migration, trafficking, and human rights. She has conducted research in South Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Before coming to Wellesley, she taught at the University of Hong Kong as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2002-2003. She first arrived in the US in 2003 to take up a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights at Columbia University. Professor...
read moreJanie Chuang, American University Washington College of Law
Janie Chuang is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law and a current Fellow of the Open Society Foundations. Professor Chuang teaches courses in international law, human trafficking, international commercial arbitration, and gender and labor migration. In her scholarship, Professor Chuang specializes in issues relating to gender and labor migration, specifically, trafficking in women. As an advisor on trafficking issues for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Professor Chuang...
read moreAnne T. Gallagher
Dr. Anne Gallagher is a global authority on the international legal and policy aspects of human trafficking and related exploitation. She served as a career UN official from 1992 to 2003 working with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. In 1998 she was appointed Special Adviser on Human Trafficking to Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In that capacity she represented the High Commissioner in the negotiations for the UN Organized Crime Convention and its Protocols on Trafficking and Migrant...
read moreJanet Halley, Harvard Law School
Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature from UCLA and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She has taught at Tel Aviv Buckmann School of Law and in the Law Department of the American University in Cairo. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton 2006), and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy (Duke 1999). With Wendy Brown, she coedited Left Legalism/Left Critique (Duke 2002), and with Andrew Parker she...
read moreDina Haynes, New England School of Law
Dina Francesca Haynes teaches Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering, International Women’s Issues, and Refugee and Asylum Law at New England School of Law. She previously taught at Georgetown University Law Center, American University’s Washington College of Law, and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Before teaching, she served as director general of the Human Rights Department for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as human rights adviser to the...
read moreAnn Jordan
Ann Jordan is the Director of the Program on Trafficking and Forced Labor . This project was created to raise awareness of the widespread trade and exploitation of human beings and also to promote a rights-based approach to combating this issue. Ann is an international human rights attorney who specializes in issues of human trafficking, forced labor and women’s rights. For ten years, she was the Director of the Initiative against Trafficking in Persons at Global Rights. She actively participated with an international coalition of NGOs in...
read moreLisa Kelly, Harvard Law School
Lisa Kelly is a doctoral (S.J.D.) candidate at Harvard Law School where her research focuses on family law, education law, and law and sexuality. Lisa is a Trudeau Scholar, a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow, and a Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She holds a B.A. from the University of British Columbia, a J.D. from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and an LL.M. (waived) from Harvard Law School. After law school, Lisa articled with the Department of Justice in Ottawa and also clerked...
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