Race & Human Rights Reimagined Initiative

Our work on Race & Human Rights Reimagined was housed from 2019-2024 at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law. Through this Initiative, we aimed to advance and support critical thinking regarding the role of human rights in achieving racial justice and equality. This work brought to bear the insights of Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), to foreground the operation of race and empire within the international human rights system, while at the same time exploring the potential of law to dismantle national and trans-national structures of racial and colonial subordination. In collaboration with others, we produced a range of resources for students, practitioners, and scholars interested in thinking critically about race and human rights.