Examples & Explanations for International Law, Third Edition

Amy Van Zyl-Chavarro is a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, where she recently received her LL.M. degree and where she is researching the idea of a human right to the environment as understood within international and regional human rights systems. The publication of her first article on the topic is forthcoming: Defining the Right to a Healthy Environment: Insights from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 55 ENV’T L. (forthcoming Mar. 2025). She also volunteers with Harvard Law’s Human Rights Entrepreneurs and Incubator Clinic. For a number of years, she taught International Human Rights courses at Suffolk University Law School (2017-2023) and later at Roger Williams University School of Law (2023). Since 2012 she has partnered with the Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Clinic at Suffolk Law School on research and advocacy projects. She has also worked on advocacy projects with the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). Prior to devoting herself fully to international human rights law, she spent a decade working in immigration and refugee advocacy. She received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 2008.

Other book collaborations include Education, Media, and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Carolina Academic Press, 2018) and Indigenous Education and the UNDRIP: Article 14, in The U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Commentary (Marc Weller and Jessie Hohmann eds., Oxford University Press, 2018) (both collaborations with Lorie Graham).