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

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

James L. Cavallaro, The Unfulfilled Promise: Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America , Harvard-UCLA Conference/Roundtable Series and Publication Proposal, 2004.
James L. Cavallaro, The Urban Poor: Problems of Access to Human Rights, in Enhancing Access to Human Rights, Marguerite Garling, Versoix: International Council on Human Rights, 2004.
James L. Cavallaro, Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities, 43 British Journal of Criminology 817 (2003).
James L. Cavallaro, Crime, Public Order and Human Rights, Versoix, Switzerland, International Council on Human Rights Policy, 2003.
James L, Cavallaro, Toward Fair Play: A Decade of Transformation and Resistance in International Human Rights Advocacy in Brazil, 3 Chicago Journal of International Law 481 (2002).
James L. Cavallaro, Sandra Carvalho, Sven Hilbig and Jeffrey Zinsmeister, The Human Rights Crisis in Espírito Santo: threats and violence against human rights defenders, Fórum Reage Espírito Santo and Justiça Global (2002).
James L. Cavallaro, Front Line Brazil: Murders, Death Threats and Other Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders, 1997-2001, Dublin and Rio de Janeiro: Global Justice Center, 2002.
Flávia Piovesan, James L. Cavallaro, Jayme Benvenuto Lima, José Fernanco da Silva, Luciano Oliveira and Valdênia Brito, Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions: An Approximation of the Situation in Brazil , Recife, Brazil: Gajop, 2001.
James L. Cavallaro and Thamy Pogrebinschi, A Emergente Jurisprudencia em Direitos Economicos, Sociais e Culturais no Sistema Interamericano, in Direitos Humanos, Globalização Econômica e Integração Regional, Flávia Piovesan, editor, São Paulo: Max Limonad, 2001.
James L. Cavallaro, Discursos Para Insegurança Pública, in Operação Rio: O Mito das Classes Perigosas : um Estudo sobre a Violência Urbana, a Mídia Impressa e os Discursos de Segurança Pública, Cecilia Coimbra, Rio de Janeiro: Niterói: Intertexto, 2001.
Flávia Piovesan and James L. Cavallaro, Tortura: Impunidade que Condena o País, Folha de São Paulo, May 20, 2000.
James L. Cavallaro and Salo de Carvalho, A Situação Carcerária no Brasil e a Miséria Acadêmica ((Prison Conditions and the Lack of Prisons Literature), in A Sociedade, a Violência e o Direito Penal, Ney Fayet Júnior and Simone P. Miranda Corrêa, editors, Porto Alegre: Livraria do Advogado Editora, 2000.
James L. Cavallaro, Mortos e desaparecidos politicos: reparacao necessaria (Disappeared and Politically Executed: Necessary Reparations), in Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos: Reparação ou Impunidade?, Janaína Teles, editor, São Paulo: University of São Paulo Press, 2000.
Joanne Mariner and James L. Cavallaro, Behind Bars in Brazil, New York: Human Rights Watch, 1998.
James L. Cavallaro, Police Brutality in Urban Brazil , New York: Human Rights Watch, 1997.
James L. Cavallaro, Juan E. Méndez and José Miguel Vivanco, Apresentação (Preface), in Democracia em Pedaços: Direitos Humanos no Brasil , Gilberto Dimstein, São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996.
James L. Cavallaro and Anna Claudia Monteiro, Fighting Violence with Violence: Human Rights Abuse and Criminality in Rio de Janeiro, Human Rights Watch Short Report, Vol.8, No.2(B) (1996).
James L. Cavallaro, Forced Labor Revisited: On-Site Investigations Reveal the Practice Continues in Brazil, Human Rights Watch Short Report Vol.5, No.12 (1993).
James L. Cavallaro and Allyson Collins, Frontier Injustice: Human Rights Abuses Along the U.S. Border with Mexico Persist Amid Climate of Impunity, Human Rights Watch Short Report, Vol.5, No.4 (1993).
James L. Cavallaro, The Demise of the Political Necessity Defense: Indirect Civil Disobedience and United States v. Schoon, 81 California Law Review 351 (1993).