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About Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is Associate Professor of Clinical Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where she directs the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic and the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR). Her scholarship focuses on human rights, public health, and atrocity prevention, especially related to preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based crimes, slavery and the slave trade, indigenous rights, and human rights violations against minority groups. She holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School and an MPH from the John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Positions

Present Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Disciplines

Law

Research Interests


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Honors and Awards

  • Cornell University Award for Outstanding Work for the Advancement of Women, 2009

Education

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2008 J.D., Cornell Law School
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2007 M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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2000 B.A., Cornell University
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Contact Information

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
55 5th Ave
New York, NY 10003

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