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Cynthia Soohoo CYNTHIA SOOHOO is Director of the Bringing Human Rights Home Project at the Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School and is a supervising attorney for the law school's Human Rights Clinic. BHRH encourages U.S. compliance with international human rights law, including through the use of international and regional human rights mechanisms and the development of strategies to use human rights and comparative foreign law in U.S. courts. Ms. Soohoo has worked on U.S. human rights issues before U.N. human rights bodies, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights and in domestic courts on issues including juvenile justice and challenges to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies post-9/ll. Prior to coming to HRI, she practiced law at the firm Covington & Burling for six years and was co-counsel in the landmark Alien Tort Statute case Doe v. Karadzic. Ms. Soohoo is on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Human Rights Network. Books by this author:

Bringing Human Rights Home [Three Volumes]


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