Rothenberg to present at Health Law Professors Conference

Professor Daniel Rothenberg will give a presentation, “Documenting Abuse in the Field: How Public Health Approaches Can Transform the Practice of International Human Rights Advocacy,” at the 35th Annual Health Law Professors Conference on June 7-9.

The conference is organized by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and will be held at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

Rothenberg has more than 15 years of experience combining field research, project management and scholarship on international human rights and the rule of law. His research focuses on human rights documentation and analysis and transitional justice, particularly truth commissions, amnesty laws and reparations. Rothenberg has designed and managed rule of law projects in Afghanistan, Iraq and throughout Latin America including programs to train human rights NGOs, aid indigenous peoples in using international legal remedies and collect and analyze thousands of first-person narratives of victims of severe human rights violations.