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Jonathan G. KaufmanStaff Attorney
EarthRights International |
Jonathan is currently a Staff Attorney at EarthRights International, a NGO that specializes in human rights litigation against multinational corporations involving land, natural resource, and indigenous people's issues. A not-quite-lapsed Long Islander who still pronounces "Oregon" with two "ah" sounds, Jonathan attended the Woodrow Wilson School after three years at Harvard Law School, where he focused on human rights, international law, and basically any other field that would keep him away from the clutches of corporate law. He embarked on a life of doing things entirely incomprehensible to his friends and family in college, where he accidentally got two degrees in Chinese and spent inordinate amounts of Yale's money traveling around Africa and Asia. During a year on a Fulbright grant in Taiwan, he developed an interest in indigenous people's rights and decided to go to law school to learn how to make governments protect their most vulnerable citizens. Having concluded that at least some of the important work in the world takes place outside the courtroom, however, he decided to study public policy at Princeton to re-learn how to speak to non-lawyers. In his free time, Jonathan loves picking up obscure, remote, and/or archaic languages, distance running, and cooking.
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Life after LAPA Consultant, Open Society Justice Initiative, Anti-Corruption Program (Summer 2008) International Justice Fellow, then Staff Attorney, EarthRights International (Fall 2009 to Present) |
LAPA Seminar
Ralf Michaels, LAPA Fellow; Duke University School of Law
U.S. Courts as World Courts - Practice, Theory, Legitimacy
November 23 2009, 4:30-6 PM, Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
Co-sponsored Event
Emerging Powers and Global Order
Andrew Hurrell, Balliol College, Oxford
November 23 2009, Noon, Robertson Hall Bowl 16
LEGS Seminar
Yael Berda, Ph.D. candidate, Sociology
Administrative Memory and Colonial Legacies
November 30 2009, 4:30 - 6 PM, Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
Co-sponsored Event
The International Delegation of Regulatory Authority: Food Safety, Health Regulations, and Free Trade under the WTO
Tim Buthe, Duke University
November 30 2009, Noon, Robertson Hall Bowl 16
Special Event
Crime and Punishment Workshop
Joshua Page, University of Minnesota, "Power by Proxy: The Strategic Alliance Between Prison Officers and Crime Victims."
December 3 2009, 6:30 PM
Undergraduate Associates Program
Clayton Marsh, University Counsel
American Trials, American Stories
December 3 2009, Thurday, December 3, Chancellor Green 105 - RSVP required
