Sarah Dávila A.
Associate Professor of Law; Director, International Human Rights Clinic
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About
Sarah Dávila A. is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at UIC Law. She teaches International Law, International Human Rights, and supervises the International Human Rights Clinic. She lectures on international topics, including environmental human rights.
Prior to working at UIC Law, Sarah Dávila was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she taught international law, international human rights, transitional justice, human rights in the U.S., and criminal law. She also worked as a pro bono attorney with the Institute for Justice & Democracy (IJDH) in Haiti, where she focused on issues relating to the displacement of Haitians in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the Duvalier prosecution, and sexual violence. Prior to her work with IJDH, she was a litigator at CAMBA Legal Services, an organization in New York City.
She has extensive experience in the domestic and international litigation of human rights cases and has engaged in impact advocacy at the United Nations. Most recently she has also been instrumental in the Clinic’s work with the U.S. human rights coalition navigating UN mechanisms, Inter-American System advocacy, and the Environmental Human Rights Project.
Sarah Dávila’s research agenda is focused on environmental human rights, and specifically on using a human rights framework to think and engage in the impact advocacy of environmental human rights cases.