The Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) celebrates the founding of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. We are honored to be one of the several centers and institutes who will help to constitute the school. Already, the school’s vision is congenial to CCHR’s mission, especially its emphases on global justice, human rights, integral human development, civil society, and religion. Likewise, CCHR has much to offer the school, including a long track record in human rights education, extensive ties in the Latin American system of human rights, a commitment to Catholic teaching, and its recently expanded vision of human rights research, especially in the area of religious freedom. We eagerly anticipate working with Dean Scott Appleby to make the school a success and to bring glory to Notre Dame’s Catholic mission. Equally so, we look forward to strengthening ever more our partnership of four decades with Notre Dame Law School and to continuing to build our LL.M. program in human rights law.
By Daniel Philpott