Public Writings

 

Whose suffering matters?Boston Review, 22 September 2021

How refugees can save EuropeBoston Review, 27 January 2016

Taking human rights seriouslyYale Daily News, 30 September 2014 (with Talya Lockman-Fine)

Why Crimea is not Kosovo, and why it mattersopenDemocracy, 18 March 2014 (with Evan Brewer)

Dar humánní politiky: Vzpomínání na Václava HavlaHospodarske Noviny, 18 December 2012 [Czech daily]

Soumrak elit, aneb skryté neduhy meritokracieHospodarske Noviny, 24 July 2012 [Czech daily]

Ano, prosím!’, A2, July 2012 [Czech political/literary magazine]

Silnější Evropa nebo demokratická suverenita? Ano, prosím!Hospodarske Noviny, 31 March 2012 [Czech daily]

Stronger Europe or Democratic Sovereignty? Yes, please!openDemocracy, 12 February 2012

Ctnosti Occupy Wall StreetHospodarske Noviny, 11 January 2012 [Czech daily]

Remembering Vaclav HavelYale Daily News, 10 January 2012

 

 

Advocacy Reports & Legal Memoranda

Welcome Home: The Rise of Tent Cities in the United States’, Report of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty and Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, March 2014 (co-author with Julie Hunter, Sirine Shebaya, and Samuel Halpert)

‘Challenging Laws Restricting Religious Dress in European States’, Litigation advocacy paper prepared for the Open Society Justice Initiative by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, March 2012, (co-author with Edwina Clarke and Sally Pei)

The Involvement and Responsibilities of International Financial Institutions in Asian Farmland Investment’, Report prepared for the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, April 2011 (co-author with Megan Corrarino, Lauren Oleykowski, and Chelsea Purvis)

‘International, Regional, and National Standards and Practices on Recognition and Treatment of Stateless Persons’, Memorandum prepared for the European Roma Rights Centre by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, October 2010, (co-author with Sadie Blanchard and Justin Lo)

‘Specific Instance of Conduct in La Oroya, Peru by Doe Run’, Draft OECD complaint prepared for Oxfam Peru by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, August 2010, (co-author with Megan Corrarino, Stephanie Keene, and Sirine Shebaya)

 

(Images: William Kentridge, “Portage”, 2000, detail; European Student Conference, Yale University, February 2015; Blu, untitled mural, exclave of Melilla, Spain, near border with Morocco, 2012, detail.)