Prior to joining the faculty in 1979, Professor Lockwood was Associate Dean at American University Law School, Program Director at the World Peace Through Law Center, Executive Director of the Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, and Assistant Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Studies at New York University.
Professor Lockwood serves as Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, one of the first law school programs in international human rights, and is in his twentieth year of service as Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Quarterly. In addition, he serves as Series Editor of the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Professor Lockwood was recently named to the Advisory Panel on Racial Discrimination: International Obligations and Domestic Strategies of the International Human Rights Law Group.
Professor Lockwood has written a number of petitions and briefs in international, domestic, and foreign courts raising international human rights issues; recent cases include the Unity Dow litigation in Botswana. Also, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA, and serves on the advisory boards of a number of human rights groups. In recent years, he has co-sponsored and organized the Lillich-Newman Colloquium on Human Rights and the Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic Social and Cultural Rights, and hosted the Midwest Regional Meeting of Amnesty International USA.
Books
Book Chapters
Articles, Essays & Book Reviews
Editorial Positions
The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, has published two books:
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:
Two books from the series have been issued in paperback:
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).
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.
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).
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).
The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights of The University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published three new books:
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).
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).
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 Guantánamo 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).
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).
Bert hosted a luncheon presentation at the College by Karinna Moskalenko, Director, International Protection Center.
Bert attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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