Hope Lewis, Professor of Law, is a leading expert on public international law. A human rights scholar and advocate for more than two decades, she co-founded the law school's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Her primary areas of interest are international law, human rights, and critical approaches to identity and the law (i.e., race, gender, culture, and transnational migration). She co-authored Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Economic, Social, and Cultural Dimensions, a recipient of the 2008 US Human Rights Network Notable Contribution to Human Rights Scholarship Award. Lewis also co-edits the online abstracts journal Human Rights and the Global Economy and regularly contributes to IntLawGrrls.com, the international law professors' blog.
Articles
Female genital mutilation and female genital cutting, School of Law Faculty Publications (2009)
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) or Female Genital Cutting (FGC) refers to a range of harmful...
Race, class, and Katrina : human rights and (un)natural disaster, School of Law Faculty Publications (2009)
This essay reflects on the international human rights implications of Hurricane Katrina. For those of...
Transnational Dimensions of Race in America, School of Law Faculty Publications (2009)
Race, a key concept in international human rights law from the beginning, should still be...
Transnational dimensions of racial identity : reflecting on race, the global economy, and the human rights movement at 60, School of Law Faculty Publications (2009)
The last six decades have witnessed the end of formal colonialism, the adoption of the...
Law prof adds hid voice to ongoing conversation on race, School of Law Faculty Publications (2008)
This essay reviews Richard Thompson Ford's 'The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race...