We’re excited to announce that our annual celebration on Sept 17 at Haymarket House will feature Sarah Davila A, lead author of a comprehensive collaborative report by UIC Law School International Human Rights Clinic, NLG Chicago, and Good Kids Mad City documented human rights abuses by Chicago police during the uprisings in summer 2020.
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Sarah Dávila A. is an Assistant Professor of Law & Co-Founder and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at UIC Law. She teaches International Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and lectures on international topics as part of her clinical teaching.
Prior to working at UIC Law, Sarah Dávila was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she taught international law, international human rights, transitional justice, human rights in the U.S., and criminal law. She also worked as a pro bono attorney with the Institute for Justice & Democracy (IJDH) in Haiti, where she focused on issues relating to the displacement of Haitians in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the Duvalier prosecution, and sexual violence. Prior to her work with IJDH, she was a litigator at CAMBA Legal Services, an organization in New York City.
She has experience in the domestic and international litigation of human rights cases and has engaged in impact advocacy at the United Nations. She has also been instrumental in the Clinic’s work on behalf of Haitian cholera victims suing the United Nations, immigrant detention conditions and solitary confinement, Inter-American litigation, human trafficking of Puerto Rican victims, Human Rights for Syrians Initiative, Privacy and Human Rights Project, and most recently the Environmental Human Rights Project.
