Staff

George Andreopoulos
Director

The Center for International Human Rights is currently being directed by Professor George Andreopoulos. George Andreopoulos is Professor of Political Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. Professor Andreopoulos studied history, law, and international relations at the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge. Before coming to CUNY, he taught for several years at Yale University, where he was the founding Associate Director of the Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights. He has written extensively on international security, international human rights, and international humanitarian law issues. His recent publications include Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe (with Zehra Arat and Peter Juiler) Kuwavian Press, Forthcoming; Concepts and Strategies in International Human Rights (ed.) (Peter Lang); The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (with Sir Michael Howard and Mark Shulman, Yale University Press); and
Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (with Richard Pierre Claude, University of Pennsylvania Press). The Human Rights Education book appeared in a Japanese translation (Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd.) and was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Education.

Professor Andreopoulos is currently completing a book on Humanitarian Intervention for Yale University Press and serves on the Editorial Board of Human Rights Review. Over the years, he has participated in several human rights missions, most recently in Sierra Leone to study and prepare recommendations on accountability mechanisms in that country. Professor Andreopoulos is currently President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.

M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos

Research Assistant

M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos graduated from the school of law of Saragossa (Spain) and has defended her dissertation on the Judicial Implementation of International Human Rights Law at the PhD program in Political Science of the Graduate School of CUNY (City University of New York).  Currently she is the research and administrative assistant of the Center for International Human Rights, located in John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and an adjunct lecturer of human rights at the University of Connecticut (online course) and at John Jay.   Her interests include international criminal law, rights of immigrants in Western Europe and transgovernmental networks.

Khaldoun Khelil
Webmaster

Khaldoun Khelil is a former student at John Jay College (BA  International Criminal Justice)  and has written online articles concerning human rights and national security. Khaldoun is currently enrolled in the International Security Policy graduate program at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.