James Cavallaro is the director of Stanford Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic and the Stanford Human Rights Center. He received his BA from Harvard University and his JD from Berkeley Law School, and holds a doctorate in human rights and development from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain. James joined Stanford Law School’s faculty in 2011, prior to which he was a clinical professor at Harvard Law School, where he also served as executive director of the school’s Human Rights Program. His expertise derives from his decades of work documenting rights abuses, and advocating for victims and communities through a range of fora and methods. He has authored or co-authored dozens of books, reports, and articles on human rights issues. He served as a Commissioner on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2014-2017) and as its president (2016-2017). He is also the founding president of the University Network for Human Rights.