Human Rights with Kerstin Carlson

Tocqueville 21

Professor Kerstin Carlson joins Tocqueville 21 for a discussion on human rights, social justice, and Bill Cosby. Kerstin Bree Carlson is Associate Professor teaching international law and human rights related topics at Roskilde University in Denmark and The American University of Paris. She received her BA from The Johns Hopkins University, and her JD and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, the first to Croatia and the second to UNESCO in Paris. She speaks French, Spanish, Danish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. Kerstin has published several academic books, book chapters and articles on international criminal law and transitional justice, including Model(ing) Justice: Perfecting the Promise of International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press 2018) and The President on Trial: Prosecuting Hissène Habré (Oxford University Press 2020). Her first book for a general audience, The Justice Laboratory: Internationalizing Law in Africa (Chatham House/Brookings), which examines how international criminal law fails to support the rule of law in Africa, is forthcoming in fall 2021. She is also a frequent contributor to the blog The Conversation. Her current research focuses on bias in international and domestic criminal law.