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  • Philip Alston

    Professor of Law
    New York University School of Law

    At NYU, Philip teaches international law, human rights law, the political economy of human rights, and strategic human rights litigation. He brings both a scholarly and practical perspective. From 2014 to 2020, he was UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He has also been UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions (2004-2010), Chairperson, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1991-98), and a member of the Commissions of Inquiry established by the UN Security Council, the UN Human Rights Council and the OSCE.

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