Dr. Ariel Dulitzky

Biography

Ariel Dulitzky is a Clinical Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in human rights law. He serves as the Director of the Human Rights Clinic and the Latin America Initiative. Dulitzky is regarded as a leading expert in the inter-American human rights system. Before joining the University of Texas, he held the position of Assistant Executive Secretary at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS). Dulitzky graduated with honors from the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review, and he received his LLM from Harvard Law School in 1999. He has published extensively on topics related to human rights, the inter-American human rights system, and issues of racial discrimination and the rule of law in Latin America. His teaching experience includes positions at the University of Buenos Aires and the Washington College of Law at American University. Dulitzky has also served as a law clerk for the Federal Circuit Court in Argentina. He was awarded the Gary Bellow Public Service Award by Harvard Law School in 2007 for his career dedication to human rights. Additionally, he has worked as an advisor for the IACHR's Special Rapporteur on Afro-Descendants and has contributed to the development of technical proposals for the OAS Working Group on the adoption of the new Inter-American Convention on Racial Discrimination. He has acted as a consultant for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.

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