College of Law

Courses

• Constitutional Law I
• Human Rights Seminar

November 2011

The University of Pennsylvania Press published three more books in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights for which Bert serves as Series Editor:

• Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States (William T. Armalnine, Davita Silfen Glasberg, & Bandana Purkayastha, eds.) (2011);
• Tobias Kelly, This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty (2011); and
• Roman David, Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland (2011). 

October 2011

The Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, which is directed by Bert, sponsored (with the Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice) the Butler Human Rights Lecture, which was given by Professor Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. 

Summer 2011

Bert’s article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in Judith Resnik, The Production And Reproduction Of Constitutional Norms, 35 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 226 (2011).

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, of which Bert serves as Series Editor, has published five more volumes:

Richard Price, Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

• Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights (Elizabeth D. Heineman, ed.) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

• Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights (Dorothy L. Hodgson, ed.) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

• Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory (Rene Lemarchand, ed.) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

• Joel Quirk, The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

May 2011

The publication of the May 2011 issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (HRQ) marked Bert Lockwood's completion of 29 years as Editor.  During Bert's editorship, all 116 issues of the journal have been published and mailed to subscribers in the month of publication stated on the Quarterly's cover.  On the Project Muse website of Johns Hopkins University Press, HRQ is ranked third out of over 436 journals in the number of downloads of articles in 2010 (207,440). 

The University of Pennsylvania Press published the 76th book in the Pennsylvania Studies of Human Rights for which Bert serves as Series Editor: Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights (Elizabeth Heineman, ed. 2011).  Paul Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights Visions Seen (3d ed. 2011), also was published. 

Bert spoke at a panel discussion, Revolution & Human Rights in the Middle East: Intervention or Not? at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. 

Bert served as Rapporteur at the 34th Meeting of Human Rights Officials from Western Foreign Ministries.  The meeting was held in Zagreb, Croatia.

March 2011

A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, which Bert edits, was cited in Kim D. Chanbonpin, "We Don't Want Dollars, Just Change": Narrative Counter-Terrorism Strategy, An Inclusive Model For Social Healing, And The Truth About Torture Commission, 6 Nw J. L. Soc. Pol'y 1 (2011).

Bert’s article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in David Fontana, Rise And Fall Of Comparative Constitutional Law In The Postwar Era, 36 Yale J. Int'l L. 1 (2011).

Bert was mentioned inUC Forum Examines Revolution and Human Rights in Libya, Targeted News Service, Feb. 28, 2011

February 2011

Bert wrote a guest column in the Cincinnati Enquirer, titled Mohamed ElBaradei man of integrity, courage, Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 31, 2011.

December 2010

Congratulations to Bert, who received two awards in recognition of his outstanding work in education and international human rights: the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Award (from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center); and the 2010 Citizen Diplomat: Professional Resource award (from the Greater Cincinnati World Affairs Council).
The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights of the University of Pennsylvania Press, of which Bert serves as Series Editor, has published two more volumes:

• Anja Jetschke, Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines (2011); and
• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Muslims and Global Justice (2011).

Summer 2010

Bert’s article Litigating State Constitutional Rights to Happiness and Safety: A Strategy for Ensuring the Provision of Basic Needs to the Poor, 2 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1 (1993) (with R. Collins Owens III & Grace A. Severyn), was cited in Helen Hershkoff,  “Just Words”: Common Law and the Enforcement of State Constitutional Social and Economic Rights, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 1521 (2010).

May 2010

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, has published three more volumes:

• Sonia Cardenas, Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope (2010)
• Sealing Cheng, On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea (2010)
• Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, & Marth F. Davis, eds.) (Abridged Edition, 2009).

Bert participated in a panel on A Universal Standard for Women's Rights at the Baker Peace Conference to Explore Women's Rights at Ohio University. He was quoted in Lightning-rod Islam Critic to Keynote Peace Conference, Athens News, Apr. 7, 2010.

Bert’s article, Litigating State Constitutional Rights to Happiness and Safety: A Strategy for Ensuring the Provision of Basic Needs to the Poor, 2 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1 (1993) (with R. Collins Owens, III & Grace A. Severyn), was cited in Johanna Kalb, Dynamic Federalism in Human Rights Treaty Implementation, 84 Tul. L. Rev. 1025 (2010).

April 2010

The Urban Morgan Institute’s involvement with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was discussed in Underground Railroad Center, Scholars Cast Eyes on an Old Evil, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Mar. 15, 2010.

March 2010

Two of Bert’s articles were cited:

• Preliminary Thoughts Towards an International Convention on Terrorism, 68 Am. J. Int'l L. 69 (1974) (with Thomas M. Franck), in Michael A. Newton, Exceptional Engagement: Protocol I and a World United against Terrorism, 45 Tex. Int'l L.J. 323 (2010).
• The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), in Jane Dailey, Race, Marriage, and Sovereignty in the New World Order, 10 Theoretical Inquiries L. 511 (2009).

February 2010

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, has published:

• Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives (2009), by Rebecca J. Cook & Simone Cusack
• The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa (2009), by René Lemarchand.

January 2010

Bert’s article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in Littlejohn v. UN, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100720 (D. S.C. Sept. 14, 2009).

October 2009

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, has published two books:

• Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics (2009) (Jean H. Quataert)
• Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights (2009) (Mahmood Monshipouri)

Summer 2009

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights of The University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, has published three more books in the series:

• Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward (Laura Reichenbach & Mindy Jane Roseman, eds. 2009)
• Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration (Johannes Morsink, ed. 2009)
• Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (Julie Peteet, ed. 2009)

Two books from the series have been issued in paperback:

• Harry Mulisch, Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account (Robert Naborn, trans. 2009)
• The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era (William F. Schulz, ed. 2009).

Bert’s article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in Scott L. Cummings & Louise G. Trubek, Globalizing Public Interest Law, 13 UCLA J. Int'l L. & Foreign Aff. 1 (2008).

June 2009

With the May issue, Bert completed 27 years as Editor of the Human Rights Quarterly, during which every issue was mailed to the subscribers in the month of scheduled publication. Bert participated in a State Department-sponsored videoconference with five human rights activists from Sri Lanka. Bert served as Rapporteur for a meeting of human rights officials from 22 Western foreign ministries in The Hague.

May 2009

Bert’s book, Women's Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader (Johns Hopkins University Press 2006), was cited in Lara Stemple, Male Rape and Human Rights, 60 Hastings L.J. 605 (2009).

April 2009

Bert’s article, Preliminary Thoughts Towards an International Convention on Terrorism, 68 Am. J. Int'l L. 69 (1974) (with Thomas M. Franck), was cited in Beth Van Schaack, Finding the Tort of Terrorism in International Law, 28 Rev. Litig. 381 (2008).

February 2009

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights of The University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published three new books:

• Lisa S. Alfredson, Creating Human Rights: How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World (2009).
• Clifford Bob, The International Struggle for New Human Rights (2009).
• Makau Mutua, Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions (2009).

Bert was a participant in a conference on International Criminal Tribunals: Problems and Prospects at Florida State University. He responded to Justice Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunals, the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and facilitated the discussion.

January 2009

Bert’s article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in Cynthia Soohoo, Close to Home: Social Justice Activism and Human Rights, 40 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 7 (2008).

December 2008

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series of The University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published Lisa Magarrell & Joya Wesley, Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States (2008).

November 2008

The Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights awarded the William J. Butler Human Rights Medal to three lawyers who defended the detainees being held at Guant�namo Bay on suspicion of involvement with terrorism. See Guantanamo Detainee Defenders to Receive Top Urban Morgan Honor.

Bert's article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in Judith Resnik, Joshua Civin, & Joseph Frueh, Ratifying Kyoto at the Local Level: Sovereigntism, Federalism, and Translocal Organizations of Government Actors (TOGAS), 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 709 (2008).

Summer 2008

The University of Pennsylvania Press published two new books in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights for which Bert serves as Series Editor:

• Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook (Susan Deller Ross, ed.) (2008).
• Reparations to Africa (by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman) (2008)

June 2008

The publication of the May 2008 issue of the Human Rights Quarterly marked Bert Lockwood's completion of 26 years as Editor. During Bert's editorship, all 104 issues of the journal have been published and mailed to subscribers in the month of publication stated on the Quarterly's cover. The lead article in the May issue is Establishing a Workable Autonomy in Tibet, by Michael Davis, a professor at City University of Hong Kong. The article has been picked up by Outlook, the equivalent of Time Magazine in India. On the Project Muse website of Johns Hopkins University Press, HRQ is ranked second out of over 350 journals in the number of downloads of article in 2007 (186,456).

The University of Pennsylvania Press published the 54th book in the Pennsylvania Studies of Human Rights for which Bert serves as Series Editor: The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era, edited by William F. Schulz, the former head of Amnesty International USA. Georgetown hosted an all-day conference on the book, with Madeleine Allbright as the opening speaker.

Bert served as Rapporteur at the annual meeting of the principal human rights official of 30 western foreign ministries. The meeting was in Iceland. He also attended the annual meeting of the Law School Admission Council in Marco Island, FL.

Bert's article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in Scott L. Cummings, The Internationalization of Public Interest Law, 57 Duke L.J. 891 (2008).

May 2008

Bert hosted a luncheon presentation at the College by Karinna Moskalenko, Director, International Protection Center.

April 2008

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published:

• The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era, by William F. Schultz
• Human Rights in the Arab World, by Anthony Chase & Amr Hamzawy,

March 2008

Two of Bert's articles were cited:

• The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), in Judith Resnik, Law as Affiliation: �Foreign� Law, Democratic Federalism, and the Sovereigntism of the Nation-State, 6 Int'l J. Const. L. 33 (2008); and Aya Gruber, Who's Afraid of Geneva Law? 39 Ariz. St. L.J. 1017 (2007).
• Preliminary Thoughts Towards an International Convention on Terrorism, 68 Am. J. Int'l L. 69 (1974) (with Thomas M. Franck), in Christos Ravanides, 31 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 193 (2008).

February 2008

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published:

• International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (David Weissbrodt & Connie de la Vega, eds., 2007).
• Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa Did the TRC Deliver? (Audrey R. Chapman & Hugo van der Merwe, eds. 2007).

Bert attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

January 2008

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past (Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, & Niklaus Steiner, eds., 2007).

Bert's article, Preliminary Thoughts Towards an International Convention on Terrorism, 68 Am. J. Int'l L. 69 (1974) (with Thomas M. Franck), was cited in Robert D. Sloane, Prologue to a Voluntarist War Convention, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 443 (2007).

December 2007

Bert attended a Board of Governors Meeting for the Human Rights Center at the University of Connecticut. His article, Preliminary Thoughts Towards an International Convention on Terrorism, 68 Am. J. Int'l L. 69 (1974) (with Thomas M. Franck), was cited in Robert D. Sloane, Prologue to a Voluntarist War Convention, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 443 (2007).

November 2007

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published two books:

• The Age of Apology: Facing up to the Past (Mark Gibney, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, & Niklaus Steiner eds., 2007).
• Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (Audrey Chapman & Hugo van der Merwe eds. 2007).

Bert hosted a visit to the College by Chris Calabrese, Project Counsel for the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program, on The Impact of the Real ID on Ohioans.

Bert participated in the Alumni Teach-In Day, as Terry Coonan (Class of 1995), Florida State Law School (Tallahassee, FL), taught his Constitutional Law I Class.

October 2007

Bert hosted a Distinguished Visitor Dinner with the following guests:

• Ghana: Joyce Opoku-Boateng (Legal Officer, Ministry for Women and Children's Affairs)
• Israel: Ziva Agami-Cohen (Head, Crime Unit, Immigration Administration)
• Lesotho: Pulane Lechesa (Legal Officer)
• Mexico: Arturo De Jesus Gonzales Ocampo (Sub-Delegate, National Institute of Migration, Secretariat of the Interior, Guadalajara's International Airport)
• Moldova: Irina Todorova (Direct Assistance Coordinator, Counter-Trafficking Unit, International Organization for Migration)
• United Kingdom: William Alan Skelly (Chief Superintendent, Lothian and Borders Police)

Summer 2007

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published two books:

• The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary (2007) (William F. Schulz, ed.).
• Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts (2007) (Marianne Heiberg, Brendan O'Leary & John Tirman, eds.).

Bert hosted a Distinguished Visitor Dinner with the following guests:

• Alexandro Escudero Nahom (Assistant Director for National Program of Human Rights, Unit for the Promotion and Defense of the Human Rights, Secretariat of the Interior, Mexico).
• Jesus Alfredo Lopez Garcia (Lawyer, Indigenous Organizations, Oaxaca, Mexico).
• Francisco Rodrigo Cruz Iriarte (Visiting Judge, Cultural and Indigenous Rights State Commission of Human Rights, Oaxaca, Mexico).
• Ruben De Dios Abad Garcia (Prevention and Education Coordinator, Human Rights Vicariate, Caracas Archdiocese, Venezuela).
• Linda Carali Goitia Gracia (Public Defense Lawyer III, Legal Services Coordination, Venezuelan Ombudsman Office (Defensoria del Pueblo), Venezuela).
• Ingrid Carolina Graterol Morillo (Director, Caritas (Catholic Church Organization), Venezuela).
• Andres Trujillo Dominguez (Director, Civil Association 'VIVE' (Venezuelan Victims of Human Rights Violations), Venezuela).

June 2007

Bert hosted a dinner at the Faculty Club in honor of Unity Dow, our graduation speaker. He also hosted a lunch with Sean Lees, a Boston College Law grad who has been doing refugee work in Thailand and will be leaving shortly for Darfur where he will be working on a rule of law project.

May 2007

Bert hosted a visit to the College by Richard Claude, Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics at Maryland and Founding Editor of the Human Rights Quarterly.

April 2007

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published:

• Sonia Cardenes, Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure (2007).
• Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Human Rights in Turkey (2007).

March 2007

Bert participated as a commentator at a presentation at the College by David H. Moore (Kentucky) on International Law in U.S. Courts Sponsored by the Federalist Society. He hosted a visit to the College by Xinqiang Sun, Director of the Center for the Study of American Law at Shandong University in China.

January 2007

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published Erin Daly & Jeremy Sarkin, Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2006).

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