ANNUAL REVIEW 2018—2019

THE BERNARD AND AUDRE RAPOPORT CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN OUR MISSION is to serve as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice. ONTENTS C

Letter from the Co-directors 1 Events 2 Opportunities 9 Spotlights 12 Publications 14 Staff 16

Affiliates 18 Supporters 20 The Year to Come 21 Letter from the Co-directors

his past year marked the fourth in our project on human rights, social justice, and inequality. That project, generously funded by the Ford Foundation, has resulted in a global and interdisciplinary network of scholars, activists, Tpolicymakers, artists, and students who are working together to identify and combat the legal and political drivers and dynamics of inequality. LETTER As this Annual Review reflects, we both continued and deepened much of our inequality work over the year, particularly but not only in the context of natural resource extraction and labor. At the same time, a variety of collaborations led us to extend and historicize our work. Our report on human rights and mining in South Africa (see page 14), for instance, is about natural resource extraction and inequality, but it is also about race and the legacy of colonialism. Two events, both on Puerto Rico, also highlighted connections among race, colonialism, and inequality. Puerto Rican attorney and climate justice activist Elizabeth Yeampierre delivered the fourth annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture Series in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights at the Rothko Chapel (see page 6). She then came to Austin to participate in our annual conference, titled “Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis: Toward a Just (After) life of Disaster,” which focused on the impact of Hurricane Maria on the island and on the related work of many of the participants (see page 7). Of course climate change is implicated in the Puerto Rico story, but the lecture and conference laid bare how the disaster was caused less by nature than by a history, politics, and economics inflected by racialized and colonial dynamics. Participants called for radical, community-led efforts to coordinate a “recovery” based on an entirely different economic and political model. Other events uncovered similar dynamics of injustice and also led us to a reconsideration of strategies, this time from earlier eras. The inauguration of the Michael Tigar Papers (see pages 2-3), in particular, provided an opportunity to hear from social justice lawyers, including Tigar, about their decades-long struggles (beginning in the 1960s) against state power. Even as some participants reflected upon the extent to which the battles of today echo yesterday’s fights over imperialism, marginalization, and domination, their stories inspired many in the audience about the possibilities for using law within social movements. Time and time again, then, the year forced us to confront the fact that the patterns of inequality we see today are deeply rooted in historical, racialized patterns of domination and subordination. This confrontation has pushed us to begin to think “beyond inequality,” and to rely on an ever-widening network of scholars and activists to consider different frames for analyzing and responding to inequality. As we move into our new work, we will do so with a different configuration of leadership. The two of us have had a long and exciting run of co-directing the Center since 2010. Dan has exciting news—he has recently been named chair of the Department of Government. Though he will stay involved with the Center, he will step down as co-director. Because accomplishment of our mission requires interdisciplinary leadership, we are delighted to announce that English professor Neville Hoad, who has been on the steering committee since its inception, will be our new co-director from the College of Liberal Arts. He will bring great energy, ideas, and critical and incisive takes on the questions that animate our work. Stay tuned!

From left to right: Karen Engle talks with incoming co-director Neville Hoad and co-director Dan Brinks.

ANNUAL REVIEW 1 Michael Tigar Papers Launch & Celebration EVENTS

Scenes from the Michael Tigar Papers launch. Clockwise from top left: Michael Tigar; (from left to right) Jordan Steiker, Annie Bares, Ariel Travis, Patrick Aana, Billy Chandler, Dan Brinks, Sarah Eliason, Karen Engle, and Michael Tigar; (from left to right) Roger Reeves and Neville Hoad; Michael Tigar with family and friends; (from left to right) Wayne Reaud, Michael Tigar, and Fernando Chávez; (from left to right) Robin Mardemootoo and Bernardine Dohrn.

Michael Tigar’s Papers are available at law.utexas.edu/tigar/

2 ast fall, the Center launched Major Debra Meeks, Leonard Peltier, yers in Tigar’s kitchen, peppering him the Michael Tigar Papers, which and Terry Nichols—demonstrated his with questions while Tigar prepared L chronicle the remarkable career “wanting a good fight, wanting to put them dinner. of a legendary human rights lawyer the state to the test of its power.”

and former Texas Law professor. Tigar Tigar has held multiple teaching EVENTS generously donated a digital collec- According to friend and former positions over the years, and has tion of his papers to the Rapoport client, Wayne Reaud, Tigar’s cour- left his mark on students wherever Center and the Dolph Briscoe Center age, paired with his intellect make he has gone. Robin Mardemootoo, for American History in 2016. him “the greatest living lawyer in Managing Partner of Dentons Mauri- America.” Reaud also lauded Tigar’s tius, traveled from Port Louis to at- Over the course of two years, Karen willingness to take cases that pitted test to the impact that Tigar has had Engle (Law; Rapoport Center) oversaw him against the federal government on him and his career trajectory, be- a team of students in the creation of and quipped, “Look at the people he’s ginning when he met Tigar, who was an online exhibition featuring the hun- represented! Can you imagine what on the law faculty of Paul Cezanne dreds of donated documents includ- the FBI file would read on Michael University, in Aix-en-Provence. ing articles, correspondence, photo- Tigar?” Largely thanks to Tigar, Mar- graphs, and creative demootoo went on works that provide a to study and receive glimpse into Tigar’s “No one understands better than Michael Tigar that an LLM from Texas outstanding career as we must judge our legal system not by how it treats Law and has commit- a defense attorney, ted himself and his activist, and schol- its most powerful, but by how well it guards the rights firm’s resources to ar. It also includes meaningful pro bono excerpts from an of the poorest and least popular among us.” and social justice oral history of Tigar work. He and Tigar conducted by Engle —Judge Jon Tigar have collaborated on and fellow professors multiple human rights Jordan Steiker and Gerald Torres. At cases, representing displaced Cha- the launch, Engle told Tigar that it has Tigar first went head-to-head with gos Islanders and arguing on behalf been inspiring to see the students the state in the late 60’s during the of Masaii’s grazing rights. “take in the many, many lessons—sub- Vietnam War, when he began provid- stantive and procedural, theoretical ing legal assistance to young men The many students in the audi- and practical, moral and legal, and facing the military draft. Panelist ence took away powerful lessons. historical and contemporary—that are Fernando Chávez, son of the famous Allison Wright, a second-year law embodied in the materials.” labor organizer, experienced Tigar’s student, commented that Chavez’ advocacy firsthand, and recounted story in particular prompted “an The launch took place on Sep- being inspired to pursue a career in overwhelming sense of gratitude” tember 20, 2018 before a packed law after Tigar successfully defended for choosing to pursue a law degree. house in the Eidman Courtroom, and him against charges of draft evasion She was reminded that “being a included a video tribute by Jeremy before a hostile California jury. successful lawyer is not just about Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour winning cases, it is about taking a party; a roundtable discussion with Beginning in the 1990s, Tigar moral stance for what is right.” prominent social justice lawyers who began to take a number of death have worked with Tigar during differ- penalty cases and appeals, including Perhaps the greatest lesson of the ent eras and in varied capacities; a many where the chance of victory evening was summed up by Tigar’s reading of one of Tigar’s plays; an was bleak. Steiker, who worked on a son, Judge Jon Tigar, who wrote a interview with Tigar; and a reception number of these cases, discussed the tribute saying he was proud of his with toasts by family members, a intellectual engagement, moral re- father “not only because he has former student, a previous client, and solve, and passion that Tigar brought scaled such great heights, but for two federal judges. to the work. “My sense of Michael’s how he chose to use his talents: commitment was that he didn’t think for the poor, for the victimized, for During the roundtable, as panelists that lawyering was just about winning the despised, for those in dissent. recounted victories and defeats, they cases,” and instead required “making No one understands better than made clear Tigar’s fierce commitment a record and…taking a moral stand Michael Tigar that we must judge to fighting state repression. Bernar- about the way things should be.” He our legal system not by how it treats dine Dohrn characterized Tigar as also fondly recounted helping Tigar its most powerful, but by how well it “fearless,” and said that his choice of prepare for Supreme Court oral argu- guards the rights of the poorest and clients—Angela Davis, John Connally, ments with several other young law- least popular among us.”

ANNUAL REVIEW 3 Colloquium on Law and the Production of Inequality Brings Together Students and Visiting Scholars EVENTS

November 12, 2018 October 29, 2018 November 28, 2019 October 15, 2018 October 1, 2018 TOMASI FERRANDO MICHAEL ALBERTUS HILA SHAMIR IGNACIO SAIZ DAN DANIELSEN

“Law and the “Inequality and “Feminist “From Disparity to “Trade, Distribution Reproduction of Food the Elite Origins of Approaches to the Dignity: Tackling and Development Poverty” Democracy” Regulation of Sex Economic Inequality under Supply Chain Work” through Human Capitalism” Rights” uring fall 2018, the Rapoport fellow Kate Taylor. The students in Reflecting on the seminar, Olivia Center hosted a biweekly the seminar—from law, education, Johnson, a graduate student in D colloquium which brought in government, and public policy— education, commented, “As an scholars and activists from law and wrote innovative papers examining educator, I thought I understood the social sciences to examine the legal regimes and structural in- inequality going into this seminar. role of law in creating and redress- equalities. They addressed criminal But the speakers opened my eyes ing inequality. to the countless ways “As an educator, I thought I understood inequality is produced Speakers exam- and maintained by ined a range of inequality... But the speakers opened my eyes oppressive systems themes, spanning to the countless ways inequality is produced and legal regimes. the regulation of This seminar helped sex work and fem- and maintained by oppressive systems and me understand how inist law-making; law and human rights law and the repro- legal regimes.”—Olivia Johnson can help tackle this duction of food global crisis.” poverty; trade, distribution, and in- sentencing in the United States, equality; constitutional deal-making the law regulating working condi- This was the Rapoport Center’s in nascent democracies; and new tions at sea, housing and educa- fourth semester-long colloqui- frontiers in human rights advocacy tion inequality in Austin, and other um examining the role of law in that seeks to dismantle the struc- topics. Huey Fischer (Law), whose structuring relations of domination, tures that produce socio-economic paper examined legal regimes subordination, and accumulation. inequalities. governing offshore oil workers, The Center intends to continue fa- used the opportunity to conduct cilitating this conversation through The colloquium was part of a stakeholder interviews in order to a series of workshops over the semester-long seminar taught by investigate the ways that legal and coming year. Professor Dan Brinks (Government; political inequalities intersect to Rapoport Center) and postgraduate produce worker vulnerability.

4 Center Aims to Rethink Incarceration and Redefine Justice

n the United States, critics of mass incarceration and overpolicing increasingly call for decarceration. I At the same time, the international human rights movement increasingly advocates for the criminal punishment of perpetrators of many human rights violations, while simultaneously criticizing prison con- ditions, the death penalty, and due process violations.

In spring 2019, the Rapoport Center hosted a series EVENTS of events to consider the relationship among move- From left to right: Barbara Hines, Annette Price, Claudia Muñoz, and Bob Libal ments for prison abolition, penal reform, and human discuss Grassroots Leadership’s work in Texas. rights. In February, the Center screened “War Don Don,” a documentary by Rebecca Cohen about the war crimes trial of Revolutionary United Front rebel leader Issa Sesay before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The screening was followed by a talkback via video with international human rights lawyer Paul Clark (Garden Court Chambers, England), who worked on Sesay’s defense team. Clark criticized the court for its allo- cation of greater financial resources to prosecution than defense teams and, asserting that “the pursuit of justice was clouded by a lack of modesty,” explained that the court was motivated by international pressure to identify guilty parties to a degree that clouded its ability to focus on true justice and reconciliation. In April, along with the Human Rights Law Society, the Center invited staff members of Austin-based Grassroots Leadership to provide a local perspective. Grassroots Leadership’s mission is to ensure “a more just society where prison profiteering, mass incarcera- tion, deportation and criminalization are things of the past.” It has galvanized support against immigration detention centers in Texas and as well as against the Karen Engle and students applaud international human rights lawyer Paul Clark’s remarks following the film screening of “War Don Don” (photo courtesy of Rachel criminalization of the homeless, the construction of Olvera, The Daily Texan). new prisons, and police cooperation with ICE. Barbara Hines, founder of the Immigration Clinic at Texas Law and now co-chair of the board of Grassroots Leader- “Certain systems cannot be reformed. ship, moderated the discussion. Annette Price, statewide director of Grassroots You have to trust people most directly Leadership’s Texas Advocates for Justice, showed how one of Clark’s concerns at the international level affected by them—women who are was manifested in Travis County, as she discussed detained, formerly detained people, the stark contrast between the enormous budget of the District Attorney’s Office for prosecuting indigent undocumented people—to come up with people and the funds put toward their defense or other forms of assistance. This disparate allocation of new systems.”—Claudia Muñoz resources, according to Price, perpetuates a system that is far more focused on punishment than on to trust people most directly affected by them—women justice or rehabilitation, and that disproportionately who are detained, formerly detained people, undocu- incarcerates low-income individuals and those from mented people—to come up with new systems.” communities of color. Both of the Center’s spring events prompted criti- Claudia Muñoz, director of immigration programs at cal reflection on the aims and effects of criminal law, Grassroots Leadership, described the organization’s the possibilities and pitfalls of reform efforts, and the campaign to shut down the Hutto Detention Center. need to take seriously prison abolition. The Center’s Improving conditions of detention, she contended, was upcoming conference, “Prison Abolition, Human Rights, an insufficient objective, as the detention center’s and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global,” on mere existence perpetuated detainee abuse. “Certain September 26-28, 2019, will provide an opportunity to systems cannot be reformed,” Muñoz said. “You have continue the conversation (see page 21).

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enowned Puerto Rican attorney and explained that her advocacy emerged from ourselves in uncomfortable spaces fiercely climate justice activist Elizabeth necessity, following her own community’s engage in self-transformation.... If we’re Yeampierre delivered the fourth exposure to pollutants and environmen- willing…to really challenge everything and R tal threats. Stressing the vitality of local really commit ourselves to being different,” annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice solutions to climate change and describing she continued, “then we have a chance to and Human Rights on November 29, 2018. efforts in places ranging from New York to win this thing.” Yeampierre spoke to a large audience at Puerto Rico, she said: “The path to climate In the audience was Joe Bailey, Jr., a the Rothko Chapel in Houston about the justice is local and frontline-led.... We Houston native and award-winning docu- urgent need for radical, community-led must focus on community control of land, mentary filmmaker who directed a series action to counter the mounting forces of community control of energy, manufactur- of short documentary films on Farenthold climate change, which disproportionately ing of renewable energy, provid[ing] direct included in the Rapoport Center’s on- line exhibition, “Frances Tarlton “Sissy” “The path to climate justice is local and Farenthold: A Noble Citizen.” Noting that he “could tell Sissy was proud of the frontline-led…and we must…fiercely engage in discussion” that evening in the energy capital of the world, Bailey said he hopes self-transformation.”—Elizabeth Yeampierre the conversation continues so that it might “shape the decisions of industry, govern- impact poor communities of color. benefits to the local community.” ment, activism, and the voting public here Yeampierre opened her talk by express- For Yeampierre, successful efforts to in Houston, and well beyond.” ing her respect for Sissy Farenthold, “a promote climate justice must also incorpo- Following the Farenthold lecture, Yeamp- model of the courage needed today.” She rate struggles for racial justice and include ierre traveled to Austin to participate in applauded Sissy’s “willingness to insert intergenerational leadership. “Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis: Toward herself in uncomfortable spaces—places She reiterated that “we must insert a Just (After)life of Disaster.” (see page 7). where she has disrupted patriarchy,” and then appealed to her audience to do the same: “I want to…put you in an uncom- fortable space,” because discomfort is unavoidable if we are to “build the kinds of relationships that will make it possible for us…to survive.” As executive director of UPROSE, Brook- lyn’s oldest Latino community-based orga- nization, and co-chair of Climate Justice Alliance, Yeampierre works with commu- nities most impacted by climate change to challenge extractive structures and practices. During her lecture and an en- suing conversation with Houston environ- mental activist Bryan Parras, Yeampierre From left to right: Bryan Parras, Ashley Clemmer, Elizabeth Yeampierre, Sissy Farenthold, Karen Engle, David Leslie, and Kelly Johnson (photo courtesy of the Rothko Chapel). 6 The (After)life of Disaster: Puerto Rican PARTICIPANTS Scholarship, Art, and Activism After Maria Barbara Abadia-Rexach University of Puerto Rico - Rio Pierdas Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez UT, Spanish and

Portuguese; African and EVENTS African Diaspora Studies José Atiles University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez; University of Coimbra Nicole Burrowes UT, African and African Diaspora Studies Dennis Colón Artisan, San Juan, Puerto Rico Bethzabeth Colón Pizzini Panelists Sarah Molinari and Marisol LeBrón speak about Community organizer Sebastián Colón-Otero’s pin reflects re-orienting Puerto Rican scholarship post-Maria. Puerto Rico’s refusal to align with US sovereignty. UT, African and African Diaspora Studies (Ph.D) lready in 2017, Puerto Rico was that foregrounds local knowledge, local needs, Sebastián Colón-Otero undergoing a dire economic crisis and and local power, working against the structural Psychotherapist, A massive out-migration, both enduring injustices rooted in US colonialism. Community Organizer, legacies of a long colonial history. Then, in The symposium facilitated a rich dialogue Austin, Texas September of that year, Hurricanes Irma and among diverse speakers, whose work spanned Maria exposed the island’s vulnerabilities in Karen Engle poetry, visual arts, anthropology, philosophy, UT, Law; Rapoport Center the context of twenty-first century colonialism. epidemiology, clinical psychology, geography, Jeffrey Howard A year later, the Rapoport Center and the and climate justice. For many participants UT San Antonio John L. Warfield Center for African and African and audience members alike, the trauma American Studies hosted “Puerto Rico in the from last year’s crisis was deeply personal Mónica Jiménez Wake of Crisis: Toward a Just (After)life of and proximate, and it inflected their work in UT, African and African Disaster.” The profound ways. Diaspora Studies symposium, “Mourning and resilience are part of Marisol LeBrón organized In the final UT, Mexican American and by Professor our daily language of survival through panel, participants Latina/o Studies Mónica Jiménez discussed how (UT, African and creativity and poetics.” various forms of Minkah Makalani African Diaspora —Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez organizing and UT, African and African Studies), took “self-making”— Diaspora Studies; Warfield place at UT on artistic, cultural, Center November 30—December 1, 2018. Scholars, political—produce spaces to assert agency Domingo Marques activists, and artists from Puerto Rico and in response to the violence of economic Albizu University; Ponce diaspora communities gathered to reflect on and environmental crises. “Mourning and Health Sciences University how Hurricane Maria and its aftermath have resilience are part of our daily language Sarah Molinari irrevocably affected their art, scholarship, and of survival through creativity and poetics,” City University of New York advocacy. explained roundtable moderator Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez (UT, Spanish & Portuguese). (PhD Candidate) Throughout the weekend, as participants From woodturning and poetry to network- Carlos Ramos Scharrón recounted efforts to rebuild Puerto Rico building, Puerto Ricans respond to US neglect UT, Geography & the despite state inaction, a powerful collective by reimagining their nation as one that thrives Environment; Latin narrative emerged. Islanders were “taking free from colonial influence. PhD candidate and American Studies matters into their own hands” and assuming panelist Bethzabeth Colón Pizzini (UT, African Carina del Valle Schorske individual agency at odds with the inertia of and African Diaspora Studies) discussed their government. “Where there is power, there Columbia University (PhD artists’ use of the island’s flag, rendered Candidate) is resistance,” noted José Atiles (University in black and white, to symbolize islanders’ of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), a panelist on refusal to align with US sovereignty. Testifying Pavithra Vasudevan UT, African and African the first day. Activist Elizabeth Yeampierre, to the resilience of Puerto Ricans, participants Diaspora Studies; the 2018 Farenthold Endowed Lecturer (see echoed a communal sense of cautious hope for Women’s and Gender page 6), expanded on this theme during the the island’s future. symposium’s keynote event. Interviewed by Studies Jiménez, Yeampierre spoke to the urgent need Elizabeth Yeampierre for a just recovery effort in Puerto Rico—one UPROSE ANNUAL REVIEW 7 Exiled Turkish Scholar Discusses Democratic Decline in Inaugural Scholars at Risk Lecture n 2018, the University of Texas at Austin collaborated with bers. The lecture described the decades-long degradation of Scholars at Risk (SAR), an international network of institu- democratic institutions under Erdoğan but also expressed tions assisting threatened scholars and promoting academic hope for the future, given recent resistance movements in I Turkey. freedom. The Rapoport Center hosted Dr. Halil Yenigun from Turkey, on April 23-25, 2018. Yenigun is a visiting scholar at “In the future,” said UT’s SAR committee head Professor Max Stanford who was dismissed from his position at Istanbul Snodderly, “we would like to offer more support to scholars like Commerce University after he signed a petition calling on the Dr. Yenigun, to give them time to recover from their trauma and government to end violence against, and negotiate with, Kurd- to resume their academic work.” ish communities in Southeast Turkey. Yenigun was forced to flee Turkey when Erdoğan’s administration began persecuting

EVENTS non-loyal academics. “We would like to offer more support to scholars like Dr. Yenigun, to give them time to recover from their trauma and to resume their academic work.”—Max Snodderly

During a three-day visit, Yenigün met with faculty and dis- cussed Turkish politics over coffee and baklava with students from Law and Middle Eastern Studies. He delivered a lecture entitled “Islamic Democracy Arrested? Resistance to Author- Dr. Halil Yenigun delivers the inaugural Scholars at Risk lecture at the Uni- itarian Transition in Turkey,” to over seventy audience mem- versity of Texas at Austin in April 2019 Center Hosts Human Rights Professors from Nigeria and South Africa s part of the Rapoport Center’s ongoing work to foreground experiences and insights from the Global South, our team A hosted two visiting professors for week-long residencies at the University of Texas. Over the course of the 2018—2019 aca- demic year, we were joined by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Associate Professor of Political Science at Babcock University in Nigeria, and Serges Kamga, Associate Professor of Law at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute at the University of South Africa. Yacob-Haliso’s research addresses women in conflict and post-conflict situations, focusing on refugees and displacement in Liberia and Nigeria. Kamga, in turn, studies the distribution of development rights in Africa, cross cultural perspectives, and disability rights. Both scholars delivered public lectures, taught History Depart- ment seminars, and met with students and faculty. Discussions ranged over tax justice and equitable development rights to mothering and survival in a post-conflict context. “It has been my Rapoport Center Co-director Dan Brinks and Visiting Professor Olajumoke pleasure to interact with such a diverse set of students and faculty Yacob-Hailso share a laugh before one of her public lectures at Texas Law. across campus,” said Yacob-Haliso, reflecting on her visit. “I have “It has been my pleasure to interact with learnt as much as I have imparted and am grateful for the oppor- tunity.” such a diverse set of students and faculty Funded by the Ford Foundation, our Visiting Professor/Practi- across campus. I have learnt as much as tioner (VPP) Program enables the Center to host prominent global I have imparted and am grateful for the scholars and practitioners at UT, bringing in alternative voices to engage with the campus community on issues of economic opportunity.”—Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso inequality and its structural origins. 8 OPPORTUNITIES

Mayoral candidate Wilmar Moreno visits the community of La Cristalina in Briceño, Colombia, to discuss locals’ needs. With their community more than an hour from the village center (itself nearly two hours on unpaved roads from the highway that connects it to the rest of Colombia), locals say transportation is too prohibi- tively expensive to allow them to sell the agricultural goods they produce (photo by Alex Diamond, taken during his summer fieldwork in Colombia). Human Rights Fellows Fieldwork Grants We supported nine law and graduate students to intern As part of our project on human right and inequality, we awarded in the summer with human rights organizations and institu- grants to support summer fieldwork by five PhD candidates from tions around the world. In locations as diverse as Mauritius, across campus. They pursued important social justice research in Mexico, and South Africa, students worked to promote social sites ranging from Austin, Texas to Punjab, India. justice, protect the rights of refugees and asylees, and explore the intersections among gender, race, ethnicity, immigration policy, and human rights.

Alicia Danze, Geography and Billy Pavord, Law Alex Diamond, Sociology Iasmin Goes Aragao Santana, the Enviroment Lawyers for Human Rights “What does Post-Insurgent Government Tahirih Justice Center Pretoria, South Africa Reincorporation Look Like? So- “Why Do Governments Tie Their Houston, Texas cial Inclusion, Governmentality, Hands? Natural Resources, Public Enrique Ramirez, Law and Rural Budgets, and Voter Demands” Johnathan Gooch, Law Orlando Letelier and Ronni Development in Colombia’s Washington, DC Chagos Refugee Group Karpen Moffitt Endowed Peace Laboratory” Port Louis, Mauritius Presidential Scholar Briceño, Antioquia, Katie K. Rogers, Sociology ACLU of Northern California Colombia "Breaking the Grass Ceiling: Race, Kirsten Kumar, Law San Francisco, California Class, and Gender Inequality in the Refugee Services of Texas Sarah Eleazar, Anthropology U.S. Legal Cannabis Industry" Austin, Texas Ramsey Schultz, Law "Water and Politics of Depriva- San Francisco, California Juvenile Justice Advocates tion and Resource Capture in Punjab" Sadikshya Nepal, Global International Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Policy Studies, LBJ School Mexico City, Mexico Chah Kalalanwala and Kot Sociology Center for Migration Studies Assadullah, Punjab, India "In Her Place: Policing Black New York City, New York Women Across Social Class" Austin, Texas

ANNUAL REVIEW 9 riane Leake (JD) interned this 2019 Charles Moyer summer with two organizations. Human Rights Fellow OShe spent the first half of her summer in El Paso, Texas, working for Diocesan Migrant and Refugee The Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow- Services (DMRS) in their Removal ship honors the life and work of Charles Defense Unit. While there, Leake Moyer, whose professional career has been assisted defense teams in removal devoted to the international protection of human rights, and who was the first proceedings cases at various stag- Secretary of the Inter-American Court of es. Then, for the second half of her Human Rights. The Center has awarded summer, she worked with Reprieve in the fellowship annually since 2012 through London, England, an organization that the generous donation of Scott Hendler represents clients facing the death OPPORTUNITIES and Lulu Flores (JD ’80; BA ’77) of Hendler penalty in the Middle East and North Lyons Flores, an international plaintiffs’ trial ORIANE LEAKE, Law Africa. While at Texas Law, Leake par- firm based in Austin, Texas. Diocesan Migrant and Refugee ticipated in the Capital Punishment Services, El Paso, Texas Clinic and the Immigration Clinic. In Reprieve, London, England her 2L year, she was the Pro Bono Scholar for the Psychiatric Advanced Directives Project with INCLUDE. Leake plans to continue exploring the intersections between criminal de- fense, mental health, and immigration law as she pursues a career in public interest law.

his summer, Elizabeth Hamilton 2019 Berta Cáceres (JD) interned with Dentons in Port Human Rights Fellow TLouis, Mauritius. She assisted with the ongoing pro bono case represent- ing the Chagos Refugee Group (CRG). The Berta Cáceres Human Rights The CRG advocates for the Chagossian Fellowship honors the life and work of people who were forcibly removed from Berta Cáceres, an indigenous Honduran activist who fought for environmental their homes on the Chagos Archipela- justice and indigenous rights until her go in the 1960s and 1970s. While in assassination in March 2016. Cáceres Port Louis, Hamilton assisted a team was the coordinator of the Consejo of lawyers to identify possible avenues Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e forward for CRG’s indigenous rights lndígenas de Honduras (COPINH), and case. Prior to law school, she had a was a member of the Lenca communi- career in financial services. At Texas ty, an indigenous population currently ELIZABETH HAMILTON, Law Law, Hamilton is a staff editor for the facing multiple threats to their land and Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil territories from resource extraction and Dentons state infrastructure programs. Tragically, Port Louis, Mauritius Rights. She participated in the “Pro Cáceres was assassinated by gunmen in Bono in January” trip during her 1L year her hometown in March 2016 after being and will serve on the leadership team threatened for opposing a hydroelectric­ for the program in her second year. After project on indigenous lands. law school, Hamilton hopes to pursue a career in human rights or civil rights law.

10 CLINIC HIGHLIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES

DEFENDED people in 4 countries Bar Association. The original version against a variety of abuses, ranging had been developed by the Institute OPPORTUNITIES from enforced disappearance to of Public Policies on Human Rights political persecution. of MERCOSUR. English and Spanish PROMOTED the development of the versions of the brief can be found “Right to Memory in the Americas” on the Clinic’s website: https://law. project, which aims to support the utexas.edu/clinics/human-rights/ inter-American human rights system, among others, in its advocacy for the public’s right to memory following “The Human Rights Clinic was serious human rights violations. an invaluable experience. PREPARED an annotated version Participating inspired me to of the “Fundamental Principles for pursue a career in the fight Public Policies on Memory Sites,” against human trafficking.”

HUMAN RIGHTS Clinical Professor Ariel Dulitzky and students at the request of Memoria Abierta Roya Atashi (Law) from the spring 2019 Human Rights Clinic and in collaboration with the Human class. Rights Institute of the International

WON asylum protection for thirteen constitutional right to independent refugees from Eritrea, Pakistan, court review of immigration detention. Venezuela, and Central America and COMMENTED on proposed regulations special visas for three abused and that would allow for prolonged neglected children from Mexico. detention of families with children. REPRESENTED five women in custody PREPARED an expert paper hearings before the Immigration critiquing the government’s efforts Court and secured their release from to characterize the situation at the immigration detention. One of the US-Mexico border as a security crisis women was an asylum seeker from and severely restrict options for asylum Africa who had been detained for over seekers. a year at two different facilities in Texas, to the great detriment of her mental health. “No student should pass up the IMMIGRATION ENGAGED in advocacy challenging opportunity to take on a case in Students Meredith Luneak and Alexa Lang stand the Immigration Clinic; we have so victorious at court after winning their case in April mass immigration detention and border 2019. policies that harm asylum seekers. much to learn from our clients.” Filed two amicus briefs asserting a Leah Rodríguez (Law)

RESEARCHED and authored a short his citizenship because a midwife report on current standards and best attending his birth had been accused practices for public defense in order to of falsifying births almost fifty years aid Travis County as it studied whether ago. to open a Public Defense Office to PARTNERED with the Texas Criminal represent low-income people accused Justice Coalition and Grassroots in criminal cases. Leadership on a data collection and REPRESENTED, along with Brian analysis project examining arrests in McGivern, the adult children of a man Travis County for the possession of who died suddenly in Bexar County controlled substances Jail after suffering a hip fracture and internal bleeding, in a civil rights suit for damages. REPRESENTED a Houston-area CIVIL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS resident seeking confirmation of his Students Harjeen Zibari and Kevin Trahan in front US citizenship in a federal court case. of the Rio Grande Detention Center for a client meeting. Federal authorities had challenged

ANNUAL REVIEW 11 SPOTLIGHTSSPOTLIGHTS 12 F Migrant workers inThailand(photographs thispage by Kate Taylor). By Kate Taylor Labor Inequalities and inThailand Supply ChainCapitalism ever, their relationship to formal sector of global andlocal supply chains.How labor comprises anessential component ofthe informalmembers economy, their based workers dismissed as are often inability to unionize. Although home- and safety risks,low piece rates, andan by job insecurity, occupational health Their day-to-day experiences are marked nets inhomes andsmallworkshops. women, sew garments or repair fishing Home-based workers, predominantly activists inBangkok andKhon Kaen. to work withhome-based workers and albeit innew andevolving forms. and imperial hierarchies, on racialized, gendered, and subordination based patterns of domination historically entrenched continue to perpetuate many work arrangements revealed the ways that Center’s inquiries have ical advancements. Bycontrast, the transformations amidrapid technolog raise concerns about andscholars ers about the “future of work,” policymak inequality and precarity. Indebates butional arrangements thatproduce supply chains,examining the distri the most vulnerable workers inglobal In August 2018, Itraveled to Thailand and human rights hasfocused on Center’s work on labor, inequality, or the pasttwo years, the Rapoport

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precarious and highly invisible.” invisible.” highly and precarious ize the non-wage costs of production, costs of formal labor andto external exploit these workers to avoid the wage net industries,and fishing companies highly invisible. InThailand’sgarment their work both highlyprecarious and dinate home-based workers andrender tured by transnationalforces thatsubor which the Thailandlabor market isstruc under supply chaincapitalism. home-based workers are marginalized Organization (“ILO”) who study how specialists from the International Labor ofLabor andWelfare,Department and fromhome-based work, the Thai officials sentatives from companies thatrely on supply chains.Ialso met withrepre home-based workers embedded within for improving protections and rights for cacy. Ilearned about their strategies the forefront of informal worker advo HomeNet Thailand, anorganization at contracting arrangements. obscured is throughfirms complex sub My research illuminates the ways in I spent two weeks working with - - -

- - - reveals how the legal regimes that immigration conditions. Myresearch based work isjust one tacticemployed competition. drivenfirms to reduce costs by regional has been revitalized by formal sector contracting out to home-based workers Thailand’s economy, the based work haslong been afeature of welfare for workers. Although home- including equipment, training,andsocial until those dynamicsare altered. ue to characterize the “future ofwork” ing profound inequalities thatwillcontin of their lackof bargainingpower, creat workers are targeted precisely because the multiple ways groups thatspecific of even lower cost. Such dynamics reveal factories canexploit migrantlaborat compromised whenconditions isfurther ing to demand better pay and working workers. The exacerbate theprecarity of home-based enable migrantrecruitment inThailand Crucially, subcontracting to home- latter’s already weak stand exploitative labor and Thailand under highly Myanmar who reside in migrant workers from in Thailand,Imet with al supply chains.While and gainaccess to glob the costs ofproduction by companies to reduce practice of sub - - - - - Intern Spotlight: Undergraduates Show Promise as Human Rights Scholars and Alumni

Advocates Spotlight: SPOTLIGHTS eyond their work at the Center last year, our interns oversaw personal projects arising from their own Tony B human rights interests. Carlos Pinon conducted an independent study that captured the disproportionate exposure to air pollutants among communities of color Keffler in the San Francisco Bay Area. By correlating US Census demographic data with air quality measurements taken by a mobile monitoring network, Pinon uncovered data with a spatial precision unavailable in most environmental justice studies to date. In April, culminating a longstanding Former undergraduate intern Tony Keffler (photo courtesy of commitment to sociopolitical advocacy, Guneez Ibrahim Keffler). delivered a TEDx Talk titled “Why Should We Strive to Be ony Keffler, the Rapoport Center’s First?” Ibrahim spoke of the challenges of encountering undergraduate intern in 2007, is today an racism and misogyny throughout her life, from her immigration attorney at The Bronx Defenders. upbringing as a first-generation Pakistani-American T This South Bronx-based non-profit defends low- woman in Louisiana to her campaign for Student Body income residents in criminal, civil, child welfare, and President at UT. She emphasized the importance of immigration cases. uplifting voices that remain marginalized today. Most Keffler recently recalled how his work at the recently, Christina Cho traveled to Ghana this summer as Center gave him “a real understanding of how a recipient of the inaugural President’s Award for Global legal concepts are applied to further human rights Learning. Her team, among only seven such groups funded goals.” During his time here, Keffler participated by UT to carry out research abroad, created a social in a fact-finding delegation to Brazil, contributing impact initiative, “The Color Complex,” which examines the to research on Afro-descendant and indigenous perpetuation of colorism through media, businesses, and land rights. Reflecting on this experience, Keffler remarked, “I observed how law students, attorneys, familial relations. and Afro-Brazilian community members collaborated in crafting a legal claim to their ancestral lands. I learned that while human rights work operates on many institutional levels, the most important relationship is meaningful contact with clients.” After graduating from UT Latin American Studies with Honors, Keffler completed law school at the University of Pennsylvania, with an MA in International Studies. In the fall of 2016, Keffler joined The Bronx Defenders, where he represents non-citizens in immigration court removal proceedings in New York City. Keffler also advises criminal defense attorneys on pending criminal cases for non-citizens. The rapidly developing area of “crim-imm”—the intersection of criminal law and immigration law—greatly impacts the Bronx community, where immigrants make up roughly one third of the population. “Ensuring due process and the humane adjudication of immigration law is one of the many critical issues confronting our country,” says Keffler. Eventually, he hopes to “return to Texas to work with immigrants and their families” in his home state.

Guneez Ibrahim speaks at the second annual TEDxUTAustin Conference on April 6, 2019 (photo courtesy of Ibrahim).

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the Reflecting on the project, Brinks explained, “Institutional weakness has has weakness “Institutional Brinks explained, project, the on Reflecting Workshop participants noted the frequent ineffectiveness of institutional institutional of ineffectiveness participants frequent the Workshop noted analyz studies, case of a range through issues these examine books Both n the fall of 2017, the Rapoport Center hosted a workshop on weak institu on weak a workshop Rapoport the hosted Center 2017, of fall n the Brinks, M. Victoria Daniel Co-Director by Organized in Latin America. tions Govern (Harvard, Levitsky and Steve Science), Political (Columbia, Murillo constitutions that reinforce inequality and constrain democratic redistributive redistributive democratic constrain and inequality that reinforce constitutions hous informal that regulate institutions of the weakness Conversely, policies. ends. distributive progressive facilitate can sometimes ing and employment institution of utility the regarding lessons and drawing institutions ing crucial violence domestic discuss texts rights. The human defending for al reform ex to prior groups with indigenous consultations in Mexico, prohibitions and in Argentina protections and environmental labor and traction in Bolivia, topics. other among Peru, as a treated but initiatives, reform of failure the for blamed been usually ment), the event attracted prominent scholars of Latin American politics. The scholars The politics. Latin American of prominent attracted event the ment), organizers summarized entitled Press University Cambridge in Latin American Institutions and Design Power Press University Cambridge by published be will also papersthe presented this fall. reveal chapters Other rights in Latin America. advance to intended changes authoritarian including strength, institutional of side troubling more the I at the NGOs working the Rapoport on Center’s ISSN 2515-5253 (online) ISSN 2515-5245 (print) and research of Dehm’s culmination Politics and Society America in Latin Understanding Institutional Weakness Daniel M. Brinks, Levitsky and Steven Maria Victoria Murillo

report open-access is available s part of our thematic focus on inequality in natural resource resource in natural s part inequality on focus thematic our of Rapoport the an extensive published Center governance, report mining and property on The Africa. in South rights BRINKS, LEVITSKY AND MURILLO Understanding Institutional Weakness Insights from Workshop Inform Two Books on Weak Institutions on Weak Books Two Inform Workshop Insights from

institution in question was inherited from authoritarian predecessors.” authoritarian from inherited was in question institution a conscious political strategy. We find it is sometimes used to substitute for actual redistribution, by relieving the poor of of poor the relieving by redistribution, actual for substitute to used find it is sometimes We strategy. political a conscious efforts. progressive enforce to failing by ends, certain of regressive burden the to used sometimes and institutions, the when a hindrance can be success, democratic for as foundation often strength, institutional touted Similarly, feature of the landscape. In the course of this project, we explored the many ways in which institutional weakness can be can be weakness in which institutional ways many the explored we course In the landscape. the of this project, of feature The Africa regarding in South critical debates informs work Dehm’s

The report examines the distribution of entitlements, benefits, reportThe benefits, entitlements, of distribution the examines

Property Sector Africa’s Mining in South Inequality Rights and website. the relationship between inequality, human rights, and property in rights, and property human in inequality, between relationship the underscores mining. She of would engaging that those context the the about imagination legal and political a broader benefit from that property be, envisioned. and could rights are, ways different strikingly unjust social outcomes. social strikingly unjust shape the struggle to perpetuate or undermine current hierar current undermine or perpetuate to struggle the shape propertyunderlying that the argues Dehm chies. regime, rights apartheid, under to continues exclusion racial of decades on built reinforcing wealth, of inequalities existing protect and structure Using mining sector. Africa’s in South power and decision-making the governance,” of “sites different at three studies case in-depth and customary laws international, domestic, report how explores forefront of human rights and natural resource governance in the in the governance resource rights and natural of human forefront region. study, drafted by Rapoport Center postdoctoral fellow Julia Dehm Dehm Julia fellow Rapoport drafted postdoctoral by Center study, the marks (2015-2017), activists and with collaboration Center’s A

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PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS Andrew Schrank Andrew University Brown Maria Victoria Murillo Victoria Maria University Columbia Juan Pablo Luna cia Pontifi Universidad Católica de Chile Series Editors G. Falleti Tulia University of Pennsylvania This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, the concept of This Element introduces the extent is a function of weakness or strength that arguing to social, economic or to which an institution actually matters forms three a typology of political outcomes. It then presents in which rules are cance, institutional weakness: insignifi of non- ect the way actors behave; complied with but do not a
elites either choose not to enforce compliance, in which state with them; and the rules or fail to gain societal cooperation unusually high an changed at in which the rules are instability, institutional of sources The Element then examines the rate. weakness. About the Series American politics and society Latin simultaneously a crossroads, at are and serious challenges confronting likely are that opportunities remarkable institutions and to be shaped by formal The Elements practices alike. informal series on Politics and Society in Latin ers multidisciplinary America o
and methodologically pluralist contributions on the most important by confronted topics and problems the region. Audre Rapoport Prize Winner Reflects Upon Transgender Life Under the Working Paper Series Fosters Critical and PUBLICATIONS

Strictures of State and Society PUBLICATIONS Interdisciplinary ongratulations to Katherine Fallah, recipient of the 2018 Audre Rapoport Dialogue Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights. An international panel C of scholars selected Fallah’s paper, “Re Georgio: An Intimate Account of Transgender Interactions with Law and Society,” as the winner. Reparation Through Transforma- The Rapoport Center published “Re Georgio”—and runner-up “‘United We tion? An Examination of the ICC Stand’: The Collective Mobilisation of African Women in Athens, Greece” by Reparation System in Cases of Viki Zaphiriou-Zarifi—as part of its Working Paper Series. Fallah’s article is Sexual and Gender-Based Crime a highly original first-person account of the relationship between law and by Franziska Brachthäuser gender. Reflecting on the experiences of her companion, Georgio, Fallah offers an intimate narrative of his gender transition and the accompanying joys and Charting A New Human Rights frustrations. The piece illustrates Georgio’s vulnerability in quotidian sites Discourse “from the Territories”: governed by gendered strictures, from airports and rugby fields to hospitals Social Movements and Peace in Cauca, Colombia and schools. Interactions in these spaces become a constant “reminder that no by Patricia M. Rodríguez matter how well [one] manage[s] to ‘pass,’ [transgender people] must constantly navigate…a society that is all too eager to deny [them] the ‘normal life’ that [they] Truth, National Reconciliation and crave.” Through a series of vignettes aiming to “breathe humanity into law’s cold Cultural Interventions: Lessons scripts of gender identity,” Fallah invites heartfelt reflections on legal and societal Learned from the South African assumptions about the rights and lives of transgender people. TRC by Michaela Bolton Fallah is a Lecturer of Law at the University of Technology in Sydney and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Professional Association for The Production of Precarity: How Transgender Health. Her work explores the contradictions inherent in how US Immigration “Status” Affects international law executes its humanitarian projects. Work in Central Texas by Leah Rodríguez

Feminist Dilemmas: The Challenges in Accommodating Women’s Rights within Religion-Based Family Law in India by Tanja Herklotz

Decolonizing the International Criminal Court: Considering Questions of Bias in the Prosecution of African Leaders by Mihret Getabicha

Unequal and Under Threat: Eco- nomic Inequality and the Dangers to Environmental & Human Rights Defenders by Scott Squires

To read and comment on these or previous papers, please visit our updated website at https:// law.utexas.edu/humanrights/proj- ect-type/working-paper-series/ Dedicated to interdisciplinary and critical dialogue on international human rights law and discourse, the Rapoport Center’s Working Paper Series publishes innovative papers by established and early-career re- searchers, as well as practitioners (Creative Commons image “paper 3” courtesy of Dan DeLuca on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/dandeluca/11679452475/).

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KAREN ENGLE is Minerva ARIEL A. TRAVIS is assistant House Drysdale Regents director of the Rapoport Chair in Law and founder Center, where she supervises and co-director of the fellowship and internship Rapoport Center. Engle programs, manages the daily publishes and lectures operations of the Center, and extensively on international oversees strategic projects law and human rights, with and initiatives. She holds a focuses on indigenous and master’s in Global Affairs

STAFF Afro-descendant rights in from Yale University, and the Americas, gender, and has experience representing international criminal justice. asylum seekers in Turkey.

DANIEL BRINKS is associate SARAH ELIASON is an professor of Government and administrative associate at co-director of the Rapoport the Rapoport Center, providing Center. He is a faculty advisor support for a multi-year project for the graduate human on inequality and human rights concentration in Latin rights. She was previously American Studies. He has the center administrator from researched and written 2006-2011. She received an broadly on law, human rights, MA in International Relations and comparative politics in from Baylor University. Latin America.

ARIEL DULITZKY is clinical KATE TAYLOR is postgraduate professor of law and the fellow at the Rapoport Center, director of the Human Rights working on a multi-year Clinic. He also directs the project on inequality and Rapoport Center’s internship human rights. Taylor holds program. Dulitzky is an law degrees from Monash expert on the inter-American University and New York human rights system and has University. Prior to joining the published on human rights, Rapoport Center, she worked racial discrimination, and the at EarthRights International in rule of law in Latin America. Burma.

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Monday October 28 linical Professor Lucille Wood (UT, Law) created the Keisha-Khan Perry beautiful image above to celebrate the spring 2019 visit of Associate Professor of Africana Studies, C Professor Serges Kamga (Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Brown University Institute, University of South Africa). Kamga was one of two scholars, along with Professor Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso (Babcock Monday, November 11 University, Nigeria), chosen last year for the Rapoport Center’s Visiting Professor/Practitioner Program (see page 8). Vasuki Nesiah Associate Professor of Practice, Gallatin Wood’s painting illustrates the importance of the arts in School of Individualized Study, generating dialogue around human rights issues, a view long advocated by the Rapoport Center. Literature, music, theatre, New York University dance, and the visual arts are essential methods for demanding social and political change, educating diverse publics on social Monday, November 25 injustice, and building more equitable societies. By hosting Teemu Ruskola performance events, film series, and poetry readings, and Jonas Robitsher Professor of Law, promoting local, national, and international artists, the Center Emory University will continue supporting the arts as an integral component of human rights advocacy. Graduate fellow Paula O’Donnell and undergraduate intern Iman Shah prepared this Annual Review, with drafting and editing assistance from the rest of the summer team.

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