Panel II: Strategies from Other New Rights Campaigns

November 3, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM (Eastern Time) *Note the time change

The concept of international human rights has greatly evolved over time and has expanded to incorporate new types of rights. Advocates, scholars, and human rights lawyers have gained invaluable experience in the course of promoting new rights and having them recognized as international human rights. In this session, two leading experts on human rights and the controversy surrounding the recognition of new rights will share their insights for the innocence community.

Moderator:

Jayne Huckerby

Jayne Huckerby is clinical professor of law and the inaugural director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke University School of Law. Huckerby focuses on fact-finding, research, and advocacy in the areas of gender and human rights, gender and national security, human trafficking, and human rights in U.S. foreign policy. She frequently serves as a human rights law expert to international and regional governmental organizations and NGOs, particularly on gender, human rights, and national security, and the nexus between trafficking and terrorism. She has written and co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, and human rights reports and she is editor with Margaret L. Satterthwaite, of Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives and of the Research Handbook on Gender Issues and Human Rights (forthcoming). 

Panelists

Inga Winkler

Dr. Inga Winkler is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law. She takes a socio-legal approach to her research, which focuses on socio-economic rights, gender justice and sustainable development. Her work bridges institutional protection and socio-cultural dimensions of human rights, global policy and grassroots movements, and critical reflection and practical application. Issues that are considered taboo, in particular sanitation and menstruation, have piqued her interest. Inga is the founder and co-director of the Working Group on Menstrual Health & Gender Justice and the co-chair of the University Seminar on Menstruation & Society at Columbia University. She served as the Legal Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation.

Her books include the first comprehensive monograph on the human right to water, the Handbook on Critical Menstruation Studies, and an edited volume on the Sustainable Development Goals

Mart Susi

Mart Susi is the professor of human rights law and is heading a law program at Tallinn University. Professor Susi has initiated and is leading several research and development projects funded by the European Commission and the Nordic Council of Ministers. He has edited and is currently editing several research books on the topics of new human rights, the digital dimension of human rights, and the controversy around the meaning of human rights. He is developing the Internet Balancing Formula and has lectured on the topic at various universities in Europe and South America. He is the Management Board member of the European Fundamental Rights Agency, the Chair of the Global Digital Human Rights Network and is involved as an expert for the European Commission and non-governmental organizations. He edited The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights and has held senior positions in several academic institutions.

Sarah Chu

Sarah Chu joined the Innocence Project in September 2008. As the Senior Advisor on Forensic Science Policy, she leads policy work that focuses on improving the valid, reliable, and just application of forensic science and police investigative technologies. She has served as a member of the Scientific Inquiry and Research subcommittee of the National Commission on Forensic Science and was received the Legal Aid Society’s 2021 Magnus Mukoro Award for Integrity in Forensic Science. Sarah graduated from the University of California, San Diego with bachelor degrees in Biochemistry/Cell Biology, Communication, and a Masters in Biology, and holds a Masters in Epidemiology from Stanford University. She is currently a doctoral student in the Criminal Justice program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center.

Mong-hwa Chin

Mong-hwa Chin is an Associate Professor of Law at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law. He is currently the Associate Dean of the NYCU Office of International Affairs. He holds an SJD and an LL.M from Duke University and an LL.M from National Chiao Tung University, double-majoring in foreign literature and law during his undergraduate study. Professor Chin’s areas of research encompass criminal justice, evidence, law and psychology, wrongful convictions, and gender and law. He is dedicated to the promotion of gender equality, campus safety, and criminal justice and has served in several governmental commissions. He is also a board member of Taiwan Innocence Project and actively engages in the research of criminal justice issues.