James Cavallaro
Professor of Law and Director, Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

James Cavallero, Drones: Killing Enemies, and Creating Them, Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2013.
James L. Cavallaro and Fernando Delgado, The Paradox of Accountability in Brazil, in After Oppression. Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and Latin America, Vesselin Popovski and Monica Serrano, eds., Tokyo, UN University Press, 2012.
James Cavallaro, Stephan Sonnenberg, Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan, Stanford, Calif.: International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic, Stanford Law School; New York: NYU School of Law, Global Justice Clinic, 2012.
Stephan Sonnenberg & James L. Cavallaro, Name, Shame, and then Build Consensus? Bringing Conflict Resolution Skills to Human Rights, 39 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 257 (2012).
James L. Cavallaro and Fernando Elizondo García, ¿Cómo establecer una Clínica de Derechos Humanos? Lecciones de los Prejuicios y Errores Colectivos en las Américas, 6 Justicia Constituicional 124 (2011).
James L. Cavallaro, Desarrollo al estilo AES: ¿Ejemplo para toda Latinoamérica?, La Prensa, April 15, 2011, Opinion.
James L. Cavallaro y María Luisa Romero, Un grito por una verdadera reforma, La Prensa, February 11, 2011, Opinion. (English translation entitled: Op-Ed on Prisons in Panama: Tragedy at Tocumen, A Call for Real Reform).
Laura Gabriela Pedraza-Fariña, Spring Miller & James L. Cavallaro, editors, No Place to Hide: Gang, State, and Clandestine Violence in El Salvador, (Human Rights Program Practice Series), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.
James L. Cavallaro, Opportunities for U.S. Lawyers in the Human Rights Systems of Africa and the Americas, at Practicing in the African and Inter-American Regional Human Rights Systems: Training and Opportunities for U.S. Lawyers, March 10, 2010. (organized by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)(Buenos Aires, Argentina), Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and The District of Columbia Bar, International Law Section)
James L. Cavallaro, La función del litigio interamericano en la promoción de la justicia social, Lecture at La Universidad Diego Portales, in Santiago, Chile, May 28, 2009.
James L. Cavallaro, Litigation as a Mode of Social Change, Harvard Law School, 2009.
James L. Cavallaro, Human Rights Clinics, Address delivered in Spanish at La Universidad Católica, Asunción, Paraguay, 2009.
James L. Cavallaro, Teaching Human Rights at Harvard: Strategies and Challenges , International Human Rights Clinicians Conference, Berkeley School of Law, March 13-14, 2009.
James L, Cavallaro, Priorities in Latin America: Rising Crime and the Threat to Human Rights and Democratic Stability, Alumni of the Americas, A Harvard Law School Association Regional Event, Miami, FL, March 12-15, 2009.
James L. Cavallaro, We Need a Truth Commission to Uncover Bush-Era Wrongdoing, Christian Science Monitor, February 20, 2009, p.9.
James L. Cavallaro, Teaching the Practice of Human Rights: Engaging Law Students Critically, Facing History and Ourselves: Hope, Critique, and Possibility: Universal Rights in Societies of Difference, 2008.
James L. Cavallaro, Clinical Work and Human Rights: Moving Beyond the Law School? James L. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Social Policy Group, November 3, 2008.
James L. Cavallaro, Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation: Comparing the Effectivness of the Accountability Mechanisms in Eastern Europe and Latrn America, Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, October 16, 2008.
James L. Cavallaro,The Paradox of Transitional Justice in Brazil: Rejection of Dictatorship, Support for Dictatorial Policies , October 6, 2008.
James L. Cavallaro and Stephanie Erin Brewer, Never Again?: The Legacy of the Argentine and Chilean Dictatorships for the Global Human Rights Regime, 39 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 233 (2008).