Past Awards

Grants Awarded Academic Year 2011-2012

Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

  • National Impact Study of Cases of Inter-American Human Rights System
    Sponsor: Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights
    Professors Claudia Martin & Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

  • Local Lawyering Project
    Sponsor: Ford Foundation
    Professors Rick Wilson & Hadar Harris
  • Support for Special Rapporteur on Torture
    Sponsor: Oak Foundation
    Professors Juan Mendez & Hadar Harris
  • Nepal Research Project
    Sponsor: "The Woods" Charitable Foundation
    Professors Herman Schwartz & Hadar Harris, & Ann Jordan

Office of the Dean

  • Inter-American and International Human Rights System Training Course
    Sponsor: Open Society Institute
    Dean Claudio Grossman

Individual Faculty

  • Mental Health Advocacy Paper
    Sponsor: Public Welfare Foundation
    Professor Robert Dinerstein

Health Law and Justice Program

  • Assessing the Effectiveness of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
    Sponsor: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
    Professor Lindsay Wiley & Matthew Pierce

International Human Rights Law Clinic

  • Statelessness in the Caribbean
    Sponsor: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    Professors Rick Wilson & David Baluarte

International Legal Studies Program

  • 2012 Junior Faculty Development Program
    Sponsor: American Councils for International Education
    Professor David Hunter & Melanija Radnovic
  • 2011-2012 Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellows Program
    Sponsor: International Research and Exchanges Board
    Professor David Hunter & Melanija Radnovic
  • 2011-2012 Humphrey Fellowship Program (2008-2013)
    Sponsor: Institute of International Education
    Professor David Hunter & Melanija Radnovic

Low Income Taxpayer Clinic

  • 2012 LITC Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic
    Sponsor: Internal Revenue Service
    Professor Nancy Abramowitz
  • 2011 LITC Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic
    Sponsor: Internal Revenue Service
    Professor Nancy Abramowitz

Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project

  • Wrongful Prosecution Review Program
    Sponsor: Dept. of Justice Office of Justice Programs
    Professor Cynthia Jones & Shawn Armbrust

National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project

  • Immigrant Women's Technical Assistance Project
    Sponsor: Legal Momentum (DOJ - OVW)
    Professor Herman Schwartz & Leslye Orloff

  • Connecting Law Enforcement to Immigrant Victims of Crime
    Sponsor: Legal Momentum (DOJ - BJA)
    Professor Herman Schwartz & Leslye Orloff

  • Women of Color Network
    Sponsor: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (U.S. DHHS)
    Professor Herman Schwartz & Leslye Orloff

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

  • Strengthening the Knowledge Base for Public Interest Intellectural Property Policy
    Sponsor: International Development Research Centre
    Professors Peter Jaszi & Sean Flynn

  • Promoting a Positive Agenda in International lP Research
    Sponsor: International Development Research Centre
    Professors Sean Flynn & Michael Carroll

  • Global Expert Network on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

    Sponsor: International Development Research Centre
    Professors Michael Carroll & Sean Flynn

  • Library-based Initiatives for Large Scale Digitization and Related Access Projects
    Sponsor: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
    Professors Peter Jaszi & Sean Flynn

  • Workshop on Research and Resource Commons in Scientific Research
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Professor Michael Carroll

  • Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law
    Sponsor: Open Society Institute (OSI-Zug)
    Professors Peter Jaszi & Sean Flynn

Program on Law and Government

  • Fluoridation Database Project 2012
    Sponsor: Children's Dental Health Project (U.S. CDC)
    Professor Jamin Raskin, with Corrine Parver & Matthew Pierce

  • General Support for Marshall-Brennan 2011-2012
    Sponsor: Bernstein Family Foundation
    Professor Jamin B. Raskin & Maryam Ahranjani

  • Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project
    Sponsor: Herb Block Foundation
    Professor Jamin B. Raskin & Maryam Ahranjani

  • Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project
    Sponsor: Woodbury Fund
    Professor Jamin B. Raskin & Maryam Ahranjani

  • South African Constitutional Literacy and Service Project Initiative
    Sponsor: Samuel Rubin Foundation
    Professor Jamin B. Raskin & Maryam Ahranjani

Project on Addressing Prison Rape

  • Resource Center for the Elimination of Prison Rape
    Sponsor: Dept. of Justice Office of Justice Programs
    Professor Brenda Smith & Jaime Yarussi

War Crimes Research Office

  • General Support for 2012
    Sponsor: Open Society Institute
    Professors Robert Goldman & Susana SaCouto
  • International Criminal Court's First Cases: A Comparative Assessment
    Sponsor: Swiss Federal Dept of Foreign Affairs
    Professors Robert Goldman & Susana SaCouto
  • Gender & International Criminal Law Jurisprudence - Year 3 (see also WILP)
    Sponsor: Open Society Institute
    Professors Ann Shalleck & Susana SaCouto

  • International Criminal Court Scholarship
    Sponsor: Planethood Foundation
    Professors Robert Goldman & Susana SaCouto

Women & International Law Program

  • Gender & International Criminal Law Jurisprudence - Year 3 (see also WCRO)
    Sponsor: Open Society Institute
    Professors Ann Shalleck & Susana SaCouto