Elisabeth Wickeri
Executive Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
CONTACT DETAILS
Email: wickeri@law.fordham.edu
Phone: +1 646 312 8237
Twitter ID: ewickeri
CAREER
Education
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, J.D., 2004
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY-NANJING UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR CHINESE AND AMERICAN STUDIES, Graduate Certificate, 2001
SMITH COLLEGE, B.A., cum laude, 2000
Activities
- Chair, International Human Rights Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2012-2015)
- Executive Director, Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers (2012–present)
- Member, Council on International Affairs, Association of the bar of the City of New York (2011-present)
- Course Director, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Course, Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (2010-present)
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law (Spring 2009-present)
- Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice (2008-2009)
- Member, Committee on International Human Rights, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2006–2009)
- Law Program Director, Human Rights in China (2007–2008)
- Law Program Officer, Human Rights in China (2004–2007)
- Executive Editor, NYU Review of Law & Social Change (2002–2004)
PUBLICATIONS
- “We Are Left to Rot”: Arbitrary and Excessive Pretrial Detention in Bolivia, 36 Fordham Int’l L.J. 812 (2013), with Aya Fujimura-Fanselow
- Mental Health and Human Rights in Cambodia, 35 Fordham Int’l L.J. 4 895-967 (2012), with Daniel McLaughlin
- A Home in the City: Women’s Struggle to Secure Adequate Housing in Urban Tanzania, 34 Fordham Int’l L.J. 4 788-929 (2011), with Katherine Hughes
- Land is Life, Land is Power: Landlessness, Exclusion and Deprivation in Nepal, 34 Fordham Int’l L.J. 4 930-1041 (2011)
- No Justice, No Peace: Conflict, Socio-Economic Rights, and the New Constitution in Nepal, 2 Drexel Law Review 427 (2010)
- Land Rights Issues in International Human Rights Law, Institute for Human Rights and Business Working Paper (with Anil Kalhan) (2009)
- China’s Civil Society: Controls, Limits, and Role in a ‘Harmonious Society’, China Perspectives, No. 3, 118–125 (with Bonny Ling, Wing Lam, and Tina Tan) (2007)
- China’s Growing Prominence in the Multilateral Human Rights System, China Rights Forum, No. 1, 22–28 (principal drafter) (2007)
- Comparative International and Domestic Approaches to Addressing Human Rights Abuses: An HRIC Consultation Roundtable, China Rights Forum, No. 4, 33–36 (principal drafter) (2005)
- Grootboom’s Legacy: Securing the Right to Access to Adequate Housing in South Africa?, NYU Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Working Papers Series, Working Paper No. 5 (2004)