César Rodríguez Garavito

César Rodríguez Garavito (born 1971) is an international human rights and environmental law scholar and practitioner. He is co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law and the editor-in-chief of Open Global Rights.[1]

César Rodríguez Garavito
Born
Colombia
NationalityColombian
Other namesCésar Rodriguez
Alma materUniversity of los Andes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NYU, National University of Colombia
OccupationCo-director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU

A lawyer and a sociologist by training, Rodríguez-Garavito has published numerous books and articles on global governance, climate litigation, the human rights movement, socio-environmental conflicts, indigenous rights and business and human rights. He has served as expert witness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an Adjunct Judge of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon and a lead litigator in climate change, socioeconomic rights and indigenous rights cases.

Education

He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. (Sociology) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. from NYU’s Institute for Law and Society, an M.A. (Philosophy) from the National University of Colombia, and a J.D. from the University of los Andes.

Selected bibliography
  • Human Rights: The Global South’s Route to Climate Litigation AJIL Unbound (2020)
  • Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning (ed, Cambridge, 2017)
  • Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance (co-ed with M. Langford & J. Rossi) (Cambridge, 2017)
  • Radical Deprivation on Trial: The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in the Global South (with D. Rodríguez Franco) (Cambridge, 2015)
  • Law and Society in Latin America: A New Map (ed., Routledge, 2015)
  • Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (co-ed. with R. Dreyfus) (Oxford, 2014) “The Future of Human Rights: From Gatekeeping to Symbiosis,” Sur Journal, Vol. 11 No. 20 (June, 2014)
  • Amphibious Sociology: Action-Research for a Multimedia World, Current Sociology, vol. 62 no. 2 156-167 (March 2014)
  • Ethnicity.gov: Global Governance, Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Prior Consultation in Social Minefields, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 18: Iss. 1, Article 12, 2011.
  • Beyond the Courtroom: The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in Latin America, 89 Texas Law Review, 1669 (2011)
  • Hope Reborn: An Introduction to the New Latin American Left (with P. Barrett and D. Chavez, eds.) (Pluto, 2008)
  • Global Governance and Labor Rights: Codes of Conduct and Anti-Sweatshop Struggles in Global Apparel Factories in Mexico and Guatemala, Politics & Society vol. 33 no. 2 203-333 (June 2005)
  • Law and Globalization from Below: Toward a Cosmopolitan Legality (with Boaventura Santos, ed.) (Cambridge, 2005)

References
  1. "Climate change and environmental degradation". European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. 22 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
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