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Faculty Co-Directors

Martha Davis
University Distinguished Professor of Law
Email: m.davis@northeastern.edu

Professor Davis teaches Constitutional Law, US Human Rights Advocacy and Professional Responsibility. She is a faculty director for the law school’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and its NuLawLab and an affiliated faculty member of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Northeastern University. Davis is currently a visiting fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School of Government. In 2015-2016, she held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), Lund University, in Lund, Sweden. She continued her work with RWI in 2017-2018, when she received a Fulbright Specialist Award, and she is now an affiliated scholar of the institute. She is also chair of the expert committee for HumanRight2Water, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization that advocates for water and human rights.

Zinaida Miller
Professor of Law and International Affairs
Email: z.miller@northeastern.edu

Zinaida Miller holds a joint appointment in the School of Law and the International Affairs Program of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. She has written extensively on transitional justice and human rights, focusing on inequality and structural violence.

Miller’s scholarship has been widely published in journals and books including the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Transnational Legal Theory, Cornell International Law Journal, and Temple International and Comparative Law Journal. She is co-editor of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press, 2016), which explores the emphasis on punishment and prosecution in the human rights movement, particularly in states emerging from conflict. Her current research, including “Temporal Governance: The Times of Transitional Justice” (International Criminal Law Review, 2021), investigates the relationships among temporality, rights, and justice. “The Injustices of Time: Rights, Redistribution, Race and Responsibility”(Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2021) analyzed the uses of the past in legal and political struggles over racial and economic inequalities in the US, Canada, South Africa and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Director

Elizabeth Ennen
Email: e.ennen@northeastern.edu
Phone: 617.373.8194

Elizabeth Ennen began working at Northeastern Law’s Program for Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) in September 2016 and has served as its director since September 2018. She specializes in asylum law and the rights of noncitizens. Ennen is currently working on a “Safe Communities” project, with the Massachusetts ACLU and the Massachusetts Immigrant and Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), in which she analyzes efforts in Massachusetts to decrease the participation of local law enforcement agencies in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. In 2019, Ennen developed the Partnership for Immigrants' Rights, a team of immigration advocates and Northeastern researchers devoted to promoting the health, safety, and human rights of immigrants.

Ennen holds a PhD in philosophy from McGill University and a JD from Northeastern University School of Law. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Justice Margot Botsford ’73 at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), served as a pro bono asylum attorney and technology consultant at Community Legal Services and Counseling Center (CLSACC) in Cambridge, and volunteered as a research associate at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. In 2015 the SJC Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services honored her with an Adams Pro Bono Publico Award for her work at CLSACC and at Harvard. From 2018 to 2021, Ennen served as the chair of the SJC Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, and as an ex officio member of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission.