Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, Â鶹ÊÓƵ
Summer Faculty
LearnÌýand interact with judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Special Rapporteurs and Committee members of United Nations, members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, experts from prominent NGOs, and professors from all over the world.
English Courses
Founding Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone & Former Under Secretary General, United Nations
Head of the Mashreq and Maghreb divisions, Department for Middle East and North Africa, Ministry Foreign Affairs of the Netherlandsrategic Advisor to the Netherlands
Founder, Human Rights in Practice, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Professor of human rights and humanitarian law, Leiden University
Founder GenEq Institute (GenEq). Waisman is a renowned expert in women's rights, international human rights law, and the application of an intersectional gender lens to legal issues. For over two decades, she founded and led the transnational feminist organization Women’s Link.ÌýShe is currently working with groups in the United States to increase access to reproductive health and rights services in abortion hostile states.
Legal Advisor for the Washington Delegation of the International Committee of the Red CrossÌý
Director at Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI) of the IDB Group
Spanish Courses
Former Member, Committee Against Torture (CAT), United Nations, Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Washington College of Law
Professor of Public International Law at the University of Deusto, Director of the Programa de Formación en Derechos Humanos para LÃderes IndÃgenas
Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists and Professor, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Washington College of Law
Professor emeritus, University of Milan, Ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice, and Former President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Former Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations
Deputy Executive Secretary for the System of Petitions, Cases and Friendly Solutions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Member, International Law Commission, United Nations, and Dean Emeritus, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Washington College of Law
Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States, San José, Costa Rica
Former Vice-Chair, Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, United Nations
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Director of the UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression at Universidad de Los Andes, co-chair of the Oversight Board of Facebook and Instagram
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human RightsÌý