Summer Faculty
Learn and 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.
![Flavia](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/flavia_piovesan_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
Former Commissioner and Rapporteur on the Rights of LGBTI Persons, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
![crane](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/david_cane_2024_photo_edited(4).jpg)
Founding Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone & Former Under Secretary General, United Nations
![Rochus Pronk](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/Rochus_Pronk_2024_Photo_Edited-t.jpg)
Head of the Mashreq and Maghreb divisions, Department for Middle East and North Africa, Ministry Foreign Affairs of the Netherlandsrategic Advisor to the Netherlands
![Duffy](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/helen_duffy_2024_photo_edited(1).jpg)
Founder, Human Rights in Practice, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Professor of human rights and humanitarian law, Leiden University
![Viviana Waisman](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/viviana_waisman_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
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
![Tracey Begley](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/tracey_begley_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
Legal Advisor for the Washington Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross
![Bala](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/balakrishnan_rajagopal_2024_phot.jpg)
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spanish Courses
![Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/diego_rodr%C3%ADguez-pinz%C3%B3n_photo_edited.jpg)
Former Member, Committee Against Torture (CAT), United Nations, Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
![Claudia Martin](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/claudia_martin_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law
![Eduardo](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/felipe_g%C3%B3mez_isa_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
Professor of Public International Law at the University of Deusto, Director of the Programa de Formación en Derechos Humanos para Líderes Indígenas
![Juan Méndez](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/juan_mendez_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists and Professor, American University Washington College of Law
![Fausto Pocar](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/fausto_pocar_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
Professor emeritus, University of Milan, Ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice, and Former President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
![Daniela Kravetz](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/daniela_kravetz_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
Former Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations
![Claudio Grossman](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/claudio_grossman_2024_photo_edit(1).jpg)
Member, International Law Commission, United Nations, and Dean Emeritus, American University Washington College of Law
![Pablo Saavedra](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/pablo_saavedra_2024_photo_edited(1).jpg)
Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States, San José, Costa Rica
![Rodrigo Uprimny](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/rodrigo_uprimny_2024_photo_edite.png)
Former Vice-Chair, Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, United Nations
![Rodrigo Uprimny](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/concepcion_escobar_2024_photo_edited.jpg)
Professor of International Law at UNED, Former Member of the UN International Law Commission
![Rodrigo Uprimny](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/catalina_botero_2024_photo_edite.jpg)
Director of the UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression at Universidad de Los Andes, co-chair of the Oversight Board of Facebook and Instagram
![Pablo Saavedra](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/jorge_meza_flores_rezise.jpg)
Deputy Executive Secretary for the System of Petitions, Cases and Friendly Solutions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
![Rodrigo Uprimny](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/amaya_%C3%BAbeda_de_torres.jpg)
Senior Legal Officer, Council of Europe Associated Lecturer at the IE University
![Rodrigo Uprimny](https://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl-american-edu/assets/Image/pedro_vaca.jpg)
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights