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Every day, experts debate whether states are violating their obligations under international human rights law. But exactly who makes this international law? And who has the power to enforce it? In this lecture, Professor Alana Klein will offer a surprising answer. She will tell stories of how people, both ordinary and extraordinary, armed with a few key insights, have managed to set international law and even enforce it. Professor Klein will explain what it would take for you to do the same.

Alana Klein, BCL/LLB’02, teaches and conducts research in constitutional law, human rights law, international law and criminal law. She is currently completing a doctorate at Columbia Law School focusing on social and economic rights and health care governance. Prior to joining À¦°óSMÉçÇø, she was a senior policy analyst with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, where she worked on HIV/AIDS and immigration, legal and other barriers to harm reduction programs for people who use illegal drugs, and law reform to promote the rights of women and girls in the context of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. She has taught at Columbia Law School and Columbia University and interned with the International Refugee Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and with the Palestinian Ministry of Economy and Trade. She served as a law clerk to then-Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour in 2002-03, and was appointed to the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 2006.

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