James Louis Cavallaro served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 2002 to 2011. He was Associate Director of the Human Rights Program 2002-2004; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law 2003-2005; Clinical Director of the Human Rights Program 2004; Clinical Professor of Law 2005; and Executive Director of the Human Rights Program 2007-2011.
Research: Human rights, international human rights, human rights practice and litigation.
Education: Harvard College A.B. 1984; University of California Berkeley School of Law J.D. 1992; Universidad Pablo de Olavide Ph.D. 2014.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Police Brutality in Urban Brazil” (1997); “Crime, Public Order and Human Rights” (2003); “Doctrine, Practice, and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System” (co-author, 2019).
Noteworthy Appointments: Founder, Global Justice Center NGO, Brazil, 1999; President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 2016-2017; Co-Founder and Executive Director, University Network for Human Rights, appointed 2018.