Thursday, January 23, 2025

Duke Human Rights Archive: Human Rights Legal Collections

We've been told that the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University is offering research travel grants to work with the Human Rights Legal Collections of the Duke Human Rights Archive.   The DHRA director explains that the archive "has strong collections on legal history related to immigration law, international human rights law, Guantanamo, Attica, and the death penalty," detailed here.  For example, it has the Minneapolis law firm Dorsey & Whitney's files on its pro bono representation of Bahraini detainees at Guantánamo Bay and the papers of Juan E. Méndez, who served as the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide. 

--Dan Ernst  H/t: AZB