Advisory Board

Dr. Tom Farer

  • Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies. 
  • JD, Harvard Law School. AB, Princeton University.
  • University Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver;

More on Dr. Tom Farer...

  • Former Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies (1996-2010)
  • Honorary Professor, Peking University;
  • Guest Professor, People’s University (Beijing);
  • Director, Center for China-United States Cooperation, University of Denver;
  • Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law; Board of Editors, Human Rights Quarterly;
  • Advisory Board, Human Rights Watch/Americas;
  • Editorial Advisory Board, China Journal of International Law;
  • Editorial Advisory Board; The International Spectator.
  • Past academic positions at Cambridge University, The American University, Tulane Law School, Harvard Law School, Princeton University, University of New Mexico, The John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Rutgers (Camden) School of Law, Columbia Law School.
  • Former advisor on the drafting of the Ugandan Constitution (1993); former President, University of New Mexico (1985-1986); former legal advisor to the United Nations Mission in Somalia (1976-1983);
  • Former member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (President, 1980-1982).
  • Author and editor of many articles and books about human rights, politics, and international law, including Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of Liberal Grand Strategy (2008); Transnational Crime in the Americas (1999); Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Western Hemisphere (1996) and The Grand Strategy of the United States in Latin America (1988).
  • Research and Expertise: International law, International Politics, U.S. Foreign Policy, Africa, Latin America 

Dr. Jack Donnelly

  • Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies.
  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • BSFS, MA, Georgetown University

More on Dr. Jack Donnelly...

  • Andrew Mellon Professor and John Evans Professor, University of Denver;
  • 2008 University Lecturer, University of Denver.
  • Previously taught at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, College of the Holy Cross, Tulane University, Mills College.
  • Visiting Professor at National University of Singapore, University of Connecticut, Bar-Ilan University, National University (Costa Rica), University of the Republic (Uruguay).
  • Author of more than 80 articles and book chapters, and many books, including Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (second edition, 2003), International Human Rights (third edition, 2006), and Realism and International Relations (2000).
  • Research and Expertise: International relations theory, especially structural theories of international politics and comparative analysis of historical international systems; theory and practice of human rights (with a current emphasis on cross-cultural conceptions of human dignity across history). 

Dr. Micheline Ishay

  • Professor, Director of Human Rights Program, Josef Korbel School of International Studies. 
  • PhD, Rutgers University. 
  • MA, Rutgers University

More on Dr. Micheline Ishay...

  • Professor, Director of the largest MA in International Human Rights Program in the USA, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver;
  • 2008 University of Denver Distinguished Scholar;
  • 2004 Outstanding Course Award;
  • Senior Fellow, Center for Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland (2004);
  • Executive Director, Center on Rights Development (CORD), (1993-1999);
  • Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, N.Y (1990-1992).
  • Author of numerous articles and single authored and edited books: Internationalism and Its Betrayal (1995), The Nationalism Reader (1995); History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (2004, 2008), Human Rights Reader (1997, 2007).
  • Her two books and second editions were translated into numerous languages and are widely adopted in human rights courses throughout the world.
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer ranked her History of Human Rights among the top ten non-fiction books of 2004.
  • Micheline Ishay is currently working on two books: The Future of Human Rights and Human Rights in the Middle East.
  • She travels widely in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S., and often gives talks on international affairs, human rights, political theory and history.
  • Research and Expertise: International relations, human rights, political theory, history, methodology, sociology, comparative politics, U.S. foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics.