Paolo G. Carozza
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for International and Graduate Studies, Notre Dame Law School
Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights
(JD, Harvard Law School, 1989)
321 Law School
574-631-4128
email: pcarozza@nd.edu
http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/paolo-g-carozza
Geographic focus: International; Latin America; Western Europe
Thematic interests: Human rights; international law; comparative law; European and Latin American legal traditions
Current research: Human rights in the Inter-American system; the authority of international legal institutions; the relationship between constitutional traditions, democracy, and international human rights; comparative methods and practices in human rights adjudication.
Recent publications: “Human Rights, The ‘Art’ of Democracy, and the ‘Taste for Local Freedom,’”in Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini, eds., La Sostenibilità Della Democrazia Nel XXI Secolo (forthcoming); “Fundamental Rights and Self-Government in the Future of the Ideal of Europe,” in Ideas of Europe: Dialogues for a New Constitutional Process (Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia, forthcoming); “The Catholic Church, Human Rights and Democracy: Convergence and Conflict With the Modern State,” in Peter J. Schraeder, ed., The Cross, The Crescent And The Ballot Box: Catholic And Islamic Dialogue On The Rule Of Law And International Democracy Promotion (with Daniel Philpott) (forthcoming); Comparative Legal Traditions in a Nutshell (with Mary Ann Glendon and Colin B. Picker) (West Publishing, 3rd ed., 2008); “The Priority of the Person: Some Critical Challenges Facing International Human Rights in the Next Generation,” in Vittorio Emanuele Parsi and Andrea Locatelli, eds., Key Challenges to the Global System (Vita e Pensiero, 2007); “Il traffico dei diritti umani nell’età postmoderna,” in Luca Antonini ed., Il Traffico Dei Diritti Insaziabili (Rubbettino Editore, 2007); “La perspectiva histórica del aporte latinoamericano al concepto de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales,” in Alicia Ely Yamin ed., Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales en America Latina: Del Inventivo a la Herramienta (Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, 2006); “The Universal Common Good and the Authority of International Law,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 28 (2006).
Recent Videos: http://fightingfor.nd.edu/human-rights/
