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Elisabeth Wickeri
Executive Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Elisabeth Wickeri is Executive Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School and Adjunct Professor of Law. Elisabeth teaches courses in public international law, comparative legal frameworks, and carries out fieldwork, research, and writing on legal developments in Asia.
Her publications have appeared in the Fordham International Law Journal, the Drexel Law Review, China Perspectives, and the China Rights Forum. She also serves as a law lecturer and course director with the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation at Fordham University, and Adjunct Professor at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Elisabeth received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an Executive Editor for the Review of Law & Social Change. She received her B.A. in History, cum laude, from Smith College, and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.
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
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)