Podcast

Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, joins WJP Chief Engagement Officer Ted Piccone on Rule of Law Talk to discuss the current state of of the human rights movement, and how the international human rights community should respond.

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor and Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School, joins WJP Chief Engagement Officer Ted Piccone to discuss emergency laws and human rights.

This week on Rule of Law Talk, WJP Executive Director Elizabeth Andersen is joined by two members of the Justice Leadership Group—Willy Mutunga and Salaheddin Al-Bashir—to discuss "What Makes a Justice Leader?"

This week on Rule of Law Talk, WJP Chief Engagement Officer Ted Piccone is joined by Gerald Staberock, Secretary General of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT). The OMCT is a coalition of nearly 300 organizations working against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and other forms of degrading treatment or punishment.
 

Olivia Swaak-Goldman is executive director of the Wildlife Justice Commission, a non-for-profit organization working to address wildlife trafficking globally by collecting evidence to hold perpetrators accountable.

Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project. Her new book, A Savage Order, explores extreme violence in democracies: why it comes about, why it persists, and successful case studies for change.

This week on Rule of Law Talk, we discuss the state of the rule of law in Mexico, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing the new Mexican president: Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Ed Rekosh of Rights CoLab joins us on Rule of Law Talk to break down the roles that businesses and civil society organizations play in building a broad-based rule of law culture in society.

Robert Muggah joins us this week on Rule of Law Talk to discuss the state of the rule of law in Brazil and the impact of the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro.