The Promise Institute Europe
Building the impact of UCLA Law and the Promise Institute as a leading voice in human rights law and policy.
Located in The Hague, home of international justice, the UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe provides significant and unique training opportunities for students who are interested in international law and human rights. Building on the established practice of the Promise Institute, it engages with diverse frameworks and disciplines to generate new thinking on human rights, and advocates for change in coalition with academics, practitioners, and activists. Using its location at the heart of international human rights law and policy making in Europe, Promise Europe advances collaborations on the international stage, and plays an important role as global convenor on cutting edge human rights issues.
The Promise Institute Europe launch conference
Join us on May 27, 28 and 29, 2024, in Amsterdam for a major conference exploring The Promise of International Law in the Face of Ecological Crises.
In the wake of an escalating planetary crisis, the year 2024 stands as a pivotal moment for international law. This conference in Amsterdam seeks to explore and harness law's transformative power, reimagined through the lens of racial and environmental justice, to confront the challenges of our time. Sponsored by the Promise Institute Europe and University of Amsterdam Law School.
Learn more about the conference.
See also: UCLA Law launches institute for human rights in The Hague
A focus on International Human Rights
Executive Director Kate Mackintosh is leading efforts to have severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment recognized as an international crime.
UCLA Law students interested in international law and human rights can intern at The Hague, visit the United Nations in Geneva, and more.
Promise Europe is working with the ICC Office of the Prosecutor to develop a policy paper on environmental crimes, led by ICC Special Adviser Kevin Jon Heller.
In collaboration with Imaginal, Promise Europe brings human-centered design, systems thinking and storytelling techniques to the Human Rights Challenge.
Who We Are
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Directors
Kate Mackintosh
Executive Director, UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe
Professor from PracticeMáximo Langer
David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law
Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
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Affiliated Faculty
Richard L. Abel
Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
Distinguished Research ProfessorKhaled M. Abou El Fadl
Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of LawE. Tendayi Achiume
Professor of Law
Alicia Miñana Chair in LawAhilan Arulanantham
Professor from Practice
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law & PolicyLaToya Baldwin Clark
Professor of LawJoseph Berra
Human Rights in the Americas Project DirectorWilliam Boyd
Professor of Law
Michael J. Klein Chair in Law
Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the EnvironmentDevon W. Carbado
The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of LawAnn E. Carlson
Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental LawKimberlé W. Crenshaw
Distinguished Professor of Law
Promise Institute Chair in Human RightsIngrid Eagly
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Criminal Justice ProgramStephen Gardbaum
Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in LawHannah R. Garry
Professor from Practice
Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human RightsCarole E. Goldberg
Distinguished Research Professor
Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law EmeritaLaura E. Gómez
Professor of Law
Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in LawCara Horowitz
Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Director, Frank G. Wells Environmental Law ClinicMichael Karanicolas
Executive Director, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and PolicyJasleen Kohli
Executive Director, Critical Race Studies ProgramMáximo Langer
David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law
Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
Faculty Director, Promise Institute EuropeKate Mackintosh
Executive Director, UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe
Professor from PracticeHiroshi Motomura
Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and PolicyEdward A. Parson
Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law
Faculty Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the EnvironmentSunita Patel
Assistant Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UCLA Veterans Legal ClinicJessica Peake
Director, International and Comparative Law Program
Assistant Director, the Promise Institute for Human RightsNina Rabin
Director of the Immigrant Family Legal ClinicKal Raustiala
Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law
Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International RelationsPeter L. Reich
Continuing Lecturer in Law
Director, Law & Communication IntensiveAngela R. Riley
Professor of Law
Director, MA/JD Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies
Director, Native Nations Law and Policy CenterJames Salzman
Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental LawRobert Bradley Sears
Associate Dean of Public Interest Law
Roberta A. Conroy Distinguished Scholar of Law & Policy, The Williams Institute
Founding Executive Director, The Williams InstituteAnna Spain Bradley
Professor of Law
Special Advisor to the EVC/P on Strategic Planning and Values (2023-24)
Former Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2020-23)Richard H. Steinberg
Professor of Law
Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Chair in Law
Professor of Political ScienceLara Stemple
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student ProgramsKatherine Stone
Distinguished Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Professor EmeritaCatherine Sweetser
Deputy Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
Director, Human Rights Litigation ClinicSherod Thaxton
Professor of Law
Professor of African American Studies (by courtesy)
Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy)
Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)Lauren van Schilfgaarde
Assistant Professor of LawAlicia Virani
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Director, Criminal Justice ProgramAlex Wang
Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the EnvironmentKarin H. Wang
Executive Director, David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy
Professor from PracticeNoah D. Zatz
Professor of Law and Labor StudiesEric M. Zolt
Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law -
Fellows
Lisa Nicole Oldring
Senior Fellow, Promise Institute Europe | Lisa Oldring is a Senior Fellow with the UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe and a doctoral candidate at the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on the crime of ecocide from a human rights perspective. Oldring is an international human rights lawyer with over twenty years of practice at the global level, primarily with the United Nations Human Rights Office. As a senior advisor on human rights and security based in Geneva, she led the Office’s work on issues including counter-terrorism, global surveillance practices, and the use of force. She has served as legal advisor to UN-mandated commissions of inquiry on Darfur, Sudan and on Lebanon; Special Advisor to Mary Robinson (Chair, GAVI Board) in New York; advisor to the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health; and attaché to the International Committee of the Red Cross. She began her UN work in the post-conflict human rights field operation in Rwanda. Oldring holds a BA in Criminology (1992) and an LLB (1995) from the University of Alberta, and a graduate degree (D.E.S.) in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (1999).
