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Stephanie Farrior

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Director of International and Comparative Law Programs and Professor of Law

LLM, Harvard Law School;
JD, The American University;
MA, University of Pennsylvania;
LHD (honoris causa), Macalester College;
BA, Macalester College

Phone: 802-831-1373
Email: sfarrior@vermontlaw.edu

Publications

Books and Chapters

  • "United Nations Commission on the Status of Women," in David P. Forsythe, ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN RIGHTS (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009)
  • "International Human Rights Treaties and the Rights of Female Refugees and Asylum Seekers," Chapter 14 in Anne Bayefsky, ed., HUMAN RIGHTS AND REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, AND MIGRANT WORKERS: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOAN FITZPATRICK AND ARTHUR HELTON, pp. 283-320 (Martinus Nijhoff 2006)
  • "International Reporting Procedures," Chapter 10 in Hurst Hannum, ed., GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE, pp. 189-215 (revised and updated previous edition's chapter by Coliver & Miller) (4th ed.; Transnational Publishers, 2004)
  • "Hate Propaganda and International Human Rights Law," Chapter 2 in Monroe E. Price and Mark Thompson, eds., FORGING PEACE: INTERVENTION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF MEDIA SPACE, pp. 69-103 (Univ. of Edinburgh Press, 2002)
  • "Protection of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Under the UN Treaty Bodies," (co-author with Anne Bayefsky), Chapter 2 in Joan Fitzpatrick, ed., HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION FOR REFUGEES, ASYLUM-SEEKERS, AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS: A GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS, pp. 23-135 (Transnational Publ. 2001)
  • USING THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM TO COMBAT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: A HANDBOOK. Monograph; 103 pp. (AI Index: IOR 80/001/2001) (Amnesty International, London, 2001)

Articles and Published Presentations

  • "Human Trafficking Violates Anti-Slavery Provision: Introductory Note to Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia, European Court of Human Rights," 49 International Legal Materials 415 (2010)
  • "Human Rights Advocacy on Gender Issues: Challenges and Opportunities," 1 JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE 83 (Oxford University Press, 2009) (invited contribution to inaugural issue)
  • "The House of Lords Decision in R (Al-Jedda) v. Secretary of Defence: Introductory Note," 47 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL MATERIALS 607 (2008)
  • "The European Court of Human Rights Decision in Behrami and Behrami v. France: Introductory Note," 46 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL MATERIALS 743 (July 2007)
  • "The ‘Due Diligence' Standard and Violence against Women," 14 INTERIGHTS Bulletin (2004) (invited contribution to special issue Women's Rights in the 21st Century)
  • "The Rights of Women in International Human Rights Law Textbooks: Segregation, Integration or Omission?" 12 COLUMBIA J. OF GENDER AND LAW 587 (2003) (invited symposium paper)
  • "Tackling the Roots of Racism," 3 NEWSLETTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM SECRETARIAT (UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, April 2001)
  • "Protection from Non-State Persecution" in ASYLUM AS A HUMAN RIGHT (European Ass'n of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights - EALDH, Düsseldorf, 2001) (invited symposium paper)
  • "The Need for Universal Jurisdiction: Challenges and Recommendations," AFRICA LEGAL AID QUARTERLY 10 (April-June 2000) (University of Maastricht symposium presentation)
  • "The Neglected Pillar: The ‘Teaching Tolerance' Provision of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination," 5 ILSA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW 291 (1999)
  • "Human Rights Abuses by Non-State Actors and the International Law Commission's Draft Articles on State Responsibility," 92 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 93RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 209 (1998)
  • "The International Law on Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution: Making It Live Up to its Potential," 10 HARVARD HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNAL 213 (1997)
  • "U.S. Strategies for Eliminating Sexual Violence against Women," 6 TEXAS JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND THE LAW 273 (1997) (symposium issue)
  • "Molding the Matrix: The Theoretical and Historical Foundations of International Law and Practice Concerning Hate Speech," 14 BERKELEY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1 (1996)
  • "Landmark Hate Speech Case Decided by European Court of Human Rights," 1995 ACLU INTERNATIONAL CIVIL LIBERTIES REPORT 1

Testimony, Legislation, Briefings and Other Legal Analyses

  • U.S. Department of State, Briefing on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Organized and moderated, with my fellow ASIL Human Rights Interest Group co-chair, a three-hour closed door briefing by four CEDAW Committee members for US government representatives on the scope and content of the Convention, the Committee's role in reviewing its implementation, and issues relating to implementation within the US legal system. Washington DC (2009)
  • U.S. Supreme Court, Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez. Participated in writing amicus brief filed by Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund), setting out the international legal principles on state responsibility to provide protection from and remedies for domestic violence (2005).
  • Rapporteur and author of report for "The Economics of Racism" meeting convened by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Council for Human Rights Policy, Geneva (January 2001). Report served as basis for the subsequent publication by the International Council: Racial and Economic Exclusion: Policy Implications (2001)
  • German Bundestag: Expert witness on "State Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses Committed by Non-State Actors" at hearing held to examine refugee status of women fleeing private violence. Berlin, Germany (1999)
  • Drafted legislation for US Congresswoman Pat Schroeder (D-CO), "Provision of Information regarding Female Genital Mutilation," enacted into law as Section 644 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (1996)
  • European Court of Human Rights, Jersild v. Denmark. Authored amicus brief for Human Rights Watch in this landmark hate speech/freedom of the press case (1994).
  • Memorandum of law: United Nations procedures for an international non-governmental organization to obtain Category II consultative status with ECOSOC (for Equality Now, the international women's rights NGO, 1994)
  • Memorandum of law: Evaluation of the available international human rights mechanisms to end impunity for the death of M. (a Filipina woman trafficked into Japan) (for Equality Now, 1994)
  • Bureau of Immigration Appeals, In re Hernandez-Bonilla. Authored amicus brief for Amnesty International-USA in political asylum case of Salvadoran labor rights activist (1988).
  • Over a dozen memoranda of law for Amnesty International (in addition to those written while Legal Director of AI) on a range of issues, including:
    • the prohibited bases of discrimination in international law
    • the international law against impunity
    • the domestic effect of treaty provisions
    • analysis of reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
    • U.S. ratification of ICCPR and CERD
    • international law on incitement to racial or religious hatred