CHR Faculty of Law

Faculty Overview

Meet Our Esteemed Faculty: Leaders in Constitutional and Human Rights Law

The CHR Faculty of Law Legal Center for Constitutionalism and Human Rights seeks to advance democratic constitutionalism, human rights, the rule-of-law, sustainable development under international law, and political and legal pluralism. As our efforts continue, we are proud to present our expert legal faculty members.

Our faculty members have taught U.S. and/or international law around the world at distinguished institutions. They routinely publish papers in leading law journals and other public forums, while also participating in prominent professional conferences. They make significant contributions to Bar Associations and Academies, while assisting in law reform initiatives. Many of our faculty members write or have contributed to noted apex court and international human rights decisions. They regularly teach and conduct research at our partner campus in Paris, as well as with the King Mohammad VI School of Law in Morocco to promote legal education among lawyers and judiciary.

As an elite body of experts in their respective fields, the CHR Faculty of Law Legal Center for Constitutionalism and Human Rights members come from top-tier law schools in the United States, the European Union and the Middle East, such as Harvard Law School, Maryland Carey Law, Eliot-Pearson College of Diplomacy, Yale Law School, Utrecht Law School, and the University of Cairo School of Law. Our professors’ professional experience includes practicing law at leading international law firms and intergovernmental organizations, serving as domestic delegated judges in their home countries, or as law professors fixed-term at prestigious academic institutions in Sierra Leone and the European Union.

Key Faculty Members

• Prof. David D. Caron
  David D. Caron is Frank H. Platt Research Chair at the University of California / Berkeley and the Arato Chair at the New York University School of Law. His current research and teaching falls into three areas: international trade and finance; the content and evolution of international law; and contemporary challenges in energy (in particular gas and environmental matters) and migration, including displaced populations.
• Prof. ibbile Ouzia
  Professor Ouzia works as researcher at INSEAD. She has worked with the UC Berkeley Institute for International Studies. At Law School, École Militaire, she taught courses on International Commercial Litigation in 2011-2013.
• Prof. Florence Berteletti
• Prof. Carol Brenneke
  Professor Brenneke teaches Administrative Law; Health Law; Law and Social Control at Maryland Community College. She previously taught Law and Public Policy at Jerry Collins III School of Business & Public Service at Bowie State University.

A Few More Faculty

• Professor Mari Kawamoto is known for many things. She has taught and continues to teach U.S. Constitutional Law abroad and in the United States, most often through the formation of legal studies programs at universities that seek to serve students who will have partners of different nationalities.
• Sophia Sarantakes is a multidisciplinary researcher with interests spanning global development assistance, social policy reform, and the human security aspects of poverty and gender based discrimination. Her initial research focused on the effects of structural change on women’s poverty in both urban and rural settings in East Africa, including Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya. As a consultant, she has worked on numerous World Bank projects, both at the regional and country level.
• At CHR, Ms. Sarantakes has focused on the need to better understand how globalization both involves and addresses the intersection of human rights and poverty. In this pursuit, she works to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, through participation in various webinars on the links between resettlement and poverty.