President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
James L. Cavallaro is President and Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Currently, he is also a law professor at Stanford Law School and Founding Director of both the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford and the Stanford Human Rights Center. Previously, he was a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Executive Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard. He founded the Brazil-based Global Justice Center and served as Director of the Brazil offices of Human Rights Watch and the Center for Justice and International Law. He is the author of dozens of articles, books, and other publications on human rights and the inter-American human rights system.