Janet Benshoof

Janet Benshoof is a human-rights lawyer who has set landmark legal precedents in US courts, including the Supreme Court, and in international forums, including on Cedaw, criminal law, women’s equality rights and free speech and religious freedom guarantees.

As president of the Global Justice Center in New York, Benshoof is working to enforce international human-rights guarantees focused on gender equality, rule of law in transitional democracies and criminal accountability for international humanitarian law violations. She received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her contributions to constitutional and humanitarian law, has a law degree from Harvard and has taught at Harvard Law School and at Bard College.