Professor Louise Mallinder, Deputy Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute of Global Peace, Security and Justice and Professor of Law, has been appointed the 2024 Pozen Professor of Human Rights at the University of Chicago.

Pozen Professorships are awarded annually to ‘distinguished human rights scholars and practitioners’. These visiting positions enable the Pozen professors to spend one quarter of the academic year at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago, during which time they will teach one seminar and deliver a public lecture. The Pozen Center is an interdisciplinary centre for the study and advancement of human rights. The Pozen Professorship is made possible by a gift from Richard and Ann Pozen.

Professor Mallinder will be visiting the University of Chicago from 11 March to 19 May 2024. While there, she will teach a course on Transitional Justice during and after conflict. She will also deliver a public lecture on 18 April on her in progress monograph on amnesties and international law – research which is funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

Commenting on her appointment, Louise said:

‘I’m am greatly honoured to be appointed as this year’s Pozen professor and I am very much looking forward to using this opportunity to advance my research and teaching on law and peace in a leading international human rights centre. I am also looking forward to working more closely with my colleagues in Chicago.’

 

Professor Louise Mallinder

Professor Mallinder is the Deputy Director and Theme Lead for Legacy at the Mitchell Institute. Louise is also Professor of Law at the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests relate to the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and law and politics in political transitions.