Professor Bennoune takes part in UC Davis Humanities Institute virtual event

Professor Karima Bennoune, the U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, took part in the April 30 UC Davis Humanities Institute virtual event “COVID-19 and the Disappearing International: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Human Rights.”

Human Rights Studies Director Keith Watenpaugh and Vice Provost and Associate Chancellor of Global Affairs Joanna Regulska also spoke during the  event.

Karima Bennoune, Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, is an author, lecturer, teacher, and international law scholar as well as the first Arab American to be honored with the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2014, she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism (W.W. Norton & Company). In October 2015, she was appointed U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.  She received the 2016 Rights and Leadership Award from  IANGEL, the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law.