James Cavallaro
About
James (Jim) Cavallaro is a professor of law and the founder and director of the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School, United States. Professor Cavallaro also directs the Stanford Human Rights Center. In 2018, Cavallaro and colleagues founded the University Network for Human Rights, an organization that will work to engage undergraduates and graduate students and their universities in human rights work in the United States and around the world. Cavallaro served as a commissioner (2014-2017) and President (2016-2017) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Cavallaro received his BA from Harvard University and his JD from University of California at Berkeley School of Law, where he served on the California Law Review and graduated with Order of the Coif honors. He also holds a doctorate in human rights and development from Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain.
