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Todd Howland

Titles

  • Visiting Professor, Environmental Justice Clinic

Degrees

  • JD, University of Denver
  • MA, University of Denver

Biography

Todd Howland has over 25 years of professional experience in the field of human rights. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Environmental Justice Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Recently, he served as Chief of Development and Economic and Social Rights Branch of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva. He was responsible for the following thematic areas: sustainable development; right to development; economic, social, and cultural rights; business and human rights; environment and climate change; human rights economy; migration; child and youth rights; rights of older persons; rights of persons with disabilities; and civil space and human rights defenders. He also served as OHCHR Representative in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, among other UN posts.

He has authored numerous scholarly articles on human rights including in the Human Rights Quarterly, the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy and the Virginia Journal of International Law and published extensively on human rights in newspapers and magazines including in the Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and Revista Semana.

Howland was director of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in Washington, DC. He has also worked at El Rescate, the European Commission, and in Ethiopia for the Carter Center. Howland was a professor of human rights law at Hankuk University in Seoul, Korea. He holds a JD and MA in political economy from the University of Denver and was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Human Rights Program.

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise

  • Environmental Justice
  • Human Rights
  • Human Rights and Environment and Climate Change
  • Human Rights Economy
  • International Law

Departments

  • Environmental Justice Clinic
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