Hope Lewis is Professor of Law, Chair of the Global Law Committee, and a founder of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at Northeastern University School of Law. She is the recipient of the 2012 American Bar Association’s Mayre Rasmussen Award for Mentorship of Women in International Law. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Thomas J. Carroll Award from the Carroll Center for the Blind and the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind as well as the 2001 Northeast Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference for her human rights work and mentorship of students and colleagues. Professor Lewis was a 2008 Sheila Biddle Fellow (Ford Foundation) of the W.E. B. DuBois Institute for African & African-American Research at Harvard University.

An internationally-recognized legal scholar and commentator on human rights, she co-authored the textbook Human Rights & the Global Marketplace: Economic, Social, and Cultural Dimensions (Brill, 2005). She is a Founding Co-chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) International Disability Rights Interest Group and serves on the ASIL Executive Council, the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers, and the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups.

Professor Lewis is a co-drafter and compiler of the Boston Principles on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of Non-citizens, a project of the law school’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Her research and teaching interests include public international law; international human rights law; critical perspectives on Identity and international law (race, gender, culture, migration status, and disability), as well as globalization and social development.