Thomas Antkowiak

Biography

Professor Antkowiak's teaching and research interests include international law, global and regional human rights systems, remedies, and transitional justice.

Professor Antkowiak has worked with a number of institutions on human rights matters. Among other positions, he was a senior attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States, and served as a special assistant to Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate and President of Costa Rica. Just prior to his arrival in Seattle, he taught a seminar on human rights law at the George Washington University Law School, as well as directed the Access to Justice Program at the Due Process of Law Foundation.

Books:

THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS: A COMMENTARY, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2012) (with Ludovic Hennebel)

VICTIMS UNSILENCED: THE INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN LATIN AMERICA, United States Institute of Peace and The Due Process of Law Foundation (2007) (Co-Editor)

Articles:

An Emerging Mandate for International Courts: Victim-Centered Remedies and Restorative Justice, Vol. 47, No. 2 of Stanford Journal of International Law (2011) [download]

El derecho a la consulta en las Américas: marco legal internacional ("The [Indigenous] Right to Be Consulted in the Americas: International Legal Framework"), APORTES, the triannual publication of the Due Process of Law Foundation (Sept. 2010) (with Alejandra Gonza)

Un modelo innovador en materia de reparaciones: El esquema de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos ("An Innovative Reparations Model: The Scheme of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights"), Edition 233 of EL DERECHO, the legal journal of the Catholic University of Argentina (2009)

Remedial Approaches to Human Rights Violations: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Beyond, Vol. 46, No. 2 of The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2008) [download]

Moiwana Village v. Suriname: A Portal into Recent Jurisprudential Developments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Vol. 25, No. 2 of The Berkeley Journal of International Law (2007) [download] 

Truth as Right and Remedy in International Human Rights Experience, Vol. 23, No. 4 of The Michigan Journal of International Law (2002)