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Paolo G. Carozza

Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights
Director, JSD Program in International Human Rights Law
Director, Program on Law and Human Development

Office Number: 2160 Eck Hall of Law
Telephone: 574.631.4128
Fax: 574.631.8702
Email: pcarozza@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Jody Klontz

Paolo Carozza’s expertise is in the areas of comparative law, human rights, and international law, and his extensive writings in these areas have been published in Europe and Latin America as well as in the United States. From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and served as its President in 2008-09. At Notre Dame, he is the Director of the Law School’s J.S.D. program in international human rights law, and the Director of the Law School’s new Program on Law and Human Development. He is also a fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Professor Carozza earned both his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard, and pursued graduate studies at Cambridge University and at Harvard Law School as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk for the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia and worked as an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter.

Watch the Notre Dame Fighting for Human Rights video featuring Professor Carozza. He was the subject of a faculty profile broadcasted nationwide during half-time of the October 16, 2010 Notre Dame v. Western Michigan football game. Through his work as chairman of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza fought the system and won, working with the Paraguayan government to enact legal reforms to outlaw the enlistment of child soldiers, improving the rights of children in that country and throughout the Americas.

  • LAW70401, International Law
  • LAW70417, Introduction to International Human Rights
  • LAW70816, Jurisprudence
  • LAW 73421, Regional Human Rights Protection
  • LAW73422, (The) Inter-American Human Rights System
  • LAW83429, Legal Scholarship Seminar
  • LAW88703, JSD Dissertation

Faculty Expertise Areas

  • Comparative public law
  • European and Latin American legal traditions
  • International law
  • Human rights law
  • Law and human development

Professor Carozza’s research and writing covers areas in international law, international and comparative human rights, European and Latin American legal systems, comparative legal methods, and theoretical approaches to international law and human rights.

The following are selected recent or representative works. Acomplete bibliography is available on Professor Carozza’s CV.

Books

COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS: TEXT, MATERIALS AND CASES ON WESTERN LAW (West Publishing, 3rd ed. 2007) (with Mary Ann Glendon and Colin B. Picker).

Book segments and articles

I diritti umani, l’«arte» della democrazia e il «gusto per la libertà locale», in La Sostenibilità Della Democrazia Nel XXI Secolo (Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini eds., Il Mulino, 2009).

The Catholic Church, Human Rights, and Democracy: Convergence and Conflict With the Modern State, in The Cross, The Crescent And The Ballot Box: Catholic And Islamic Dialogue On The Rule Of Law And International Democracy Promotion (Peter J. Schraeder ed., forthcoming 2009); coauthored with Daniel Philpott.

Human Dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights: A Reply, 19 European Journal of International Law 931 (2008).

Sussidiarietà e sovranità negli ordinamenti sovranazionali, in Che cosa è la sussidiarieta’ 113 (Giorgio Vittadini ed., Guerini e Associati, 2007).

Il traffico dei diritti umani nell’età postmoderna, in Il traffico dei diritti insaziabili (Luca Antonini ed., Rubbettino Editore, 2007).

From Conquest to Constitutions: Retrieving a Latin American Tradition of the Idea of Human Rights, 25 Human Rights Quarterly 281 (2003).

“My Friend is a Stranger”: The Death Penalty and the Global Ius Commune of Human Rights, 81 Texas Law Review 1031 (2003).

Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law, 97 American Journal of International Law 38 (2003).