NYC Pro Bono Center

This training will explore the use of transnational standards in developing state law jurisprudence to protect economic and social rights such as health and housing, as well as non-litigation human rights legal strategies in advocating for economic justice. Lawyers who practice in state court and/or engage in non-litigation economic justice advocacy efforts at the state and local level will benefit from attendance.

Faculty includes:

• Risa E. Kaufman, Lecturer-in-Law & Executive Director, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
• Sarah H. Cleveland, Louis B. Henkin Professor in Human & Constitutional Rights & Faculty Co-Director, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
• Martha F. Davis, Professor of Law & Director, Program on Human Rights & the Global Economy,
  Northeastern University School of Law
• Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Florence Wagman Roisman, William F. Harvey Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law
• Scott Rosenberg, Director of Litigation, Civil Appeals & Law Reform Unit, Legal Aid Society, &
  Adjunct Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
• Catherine Albisa, Executive Director, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI)
• Helen Hershkoff, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law & Co-Director, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, New York University School of Law
• Lucy A. Williams, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
• Sarah H. Cleveland, Louis B. Henkin Professor in Human & Constitutional Rights &
  Faculty Co-Director, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School