Practitioner-in-Residence
A Global Human Rights Practitioner-in-Residence will be selected to share practical experience and expertise in human rights representation and advocacy with our students, faculty, and clinic staff. Practitioners-in-Residence may include alumni of the Notre Dame Human Rights LLM or others who have accumulated valuable practical experience in human rights advocacy in different regions of the world and who are well positioned to share that experience with students in a formal educational context. Global Human Rights Practitioners-in-Residence will teach two skills-based 3-4 credit courses to Human Rights LLM students. They may also assist clinic staff attorneys and students on advocacy and representation initiatives undertaken by the clinic. The Practitioner-in-Residence position will be funded for a one-year term, renewable for a second year in exceptional circumstances.
Announcing our Distinguished Global Jurist in Residence for Spring 2024:
Pablo Saavedra Alessandri
Pablo Saavedra is currently Executive Secretary at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica. As an attorney for the National Corporation on Reparation and Reconciliation of Chile, he investigated human rights violations that occurred between 1973 and 1990 in Chile.
He has also worked as a staff attorney at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and has presented numerous lectures and conferences at various universities. He graduated from the Diego Portales University in Chile and obtained his Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Notre Dame.