Hope Lewis

Professor Lewis specializes in public international law. A human rights scholar and advocate for more than two decades, she co-founded the law school's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Her primary areas ofs interest are international law, human rights, and critical approaches to identity and the law (i.e., race, gender, culture, and transnational migration). She co-authored Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Economic, Social, and Cultural Dimensions, a recipient of the 2008 US Human Rights Network Notable Contribution to Human Rights Scholarship Award. Lewis also co-edits the online abstracts journal Human Rights and the Global Economy and regularly contributes to IntLawGrrls.com, the international law professors' blog.

Professor Lewis actively works with international and domestic human rights and social justice non-governmental organizations. She has served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, a member of the Society of American Law Teachers Board of Governors and as a director on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Her research appointments have included a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research and visiting fellowships at Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program and at Washington College of Law, American University. The Northeast Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference recognized her contributions to human rights with the 2001 Haywood Burns-Shanara Gilbert Award and the American Bar Association Section on International Law has named her the 2012 recipient of the Mayre Rasmussen Award for supporting the advancement of women in international law.

Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Lewis practiced in the area of domestic and international investment fund and adviser regulation as an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the US Securities & Exchange Commission. An activist in the anti-apartheid movement, she conducted research for TransAfrica Forum on women's human rights and on African-American involvement in US foreign policy as a Revson Foundation Women's Law & Public Policy Fellow and a Harvard Fellow in Public Interest Law.