Prior to joining the faculty in 1979, Professor Lockwood was Associate Dean at American University Law School, Program Director at the World Peace through Law Center, Executive Director of the Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, and Assistant Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Studies at New York University.

Professor Lockwood serves as Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, one of the first law school programs in international human rights, and is in his twentieth year of service as Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Quarterly. In addition, he serves as Series Editor of the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Professor Lockwood was recently named to the Advisory Panel on Racial Discrimination: International Obligations and Domestic Strategies of the International Human Rights Law Group.

Professor Lockwood has written a number of petitions and briefs in international, domestic, and foreign courts raising international human rights issues; recent cases include the Unity Dow litigation in Botswana. Also, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA, and serves on the advisory boards of a number of human rights groups. In recent years, he has co-sponsored and organized the Lillich-Newman Colloquium on Human Rights and the Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic Social and Cultural Rights, and hosted the Midwest Regional Meeting of Amnesty International USA.

Download a copy of Professor Lockwood's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Publications

Editorial Positions

Editor-in-Chief, Human Rights Quarterly (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Series Editor, Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press)

• Iain Guest, Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the United Nations (1990)
• Human Rights and Cross Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus (Abdullahi An-Na'im, ed., 1992)
• Menno T. Kamminga, Inter-State Accountability for Violations of Human Rights 1992)
• Human Rights and Statistics: Getting the Record Straight (Thomas B. Jabine & Richard P. Claude, eds., 1992)
• Richard Lewis Siegel, Employment and Human Rights: The International Dimension(1994)
• Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions (George J. Andreopoulos, ed., 1994)
• Howard B. Tolley, Jr., The International Commission of Jurists: Global Advocates for Human Rights (1994)
• Human Rights and Women: National and International Perspectives (Rebecca Cook, ed., 1994)
• Betty Reardon, Educating for Human Dignity (1995)
• Claude Welch, Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Non-Governmental Organizations (1995). Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book.
• Sandra Coliver, Article XIX, The Right to Know: Human Rights and Access to Reproductive Health Information (1995)
• Lance Compa & Stephen Diamond, Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade (1996)
• Human Rights Education for the Twenty First Century (Richard Claude & George Andreapoulos, eds., 1997)
• Peter Juviler, Freedom's Ordeal (1997)
• Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (1998). Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book (2d ed. 2003)
• Jennifer Schirmer, Human Rights in the Guatemalan MilitaryProject: A Violence Called Democracy (1998). Winner of the 1999 PIOOM Human Rights Award.
• Johannes Morsink, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Drafting History (1999). Certified of Merit by the American Society of International Law and selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book.
• Ann Kent, Chinese Foreign Policy and Human Rights (1999). Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book.
• Mark Ensalaco, Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth (1999)
• Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary (Howard J. DeNike, John Quigley, & Kenneth J. Robinson, eds., with assistance from Helen Jarvis & Nereida Cross,2000)
• NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance (Claude E. Welch, Jr., ed., 2000)
• Giving Meaning to Economic Social and Cultural Rights (Isfahan Merali & Valerie Oosterveld eds., 2001)
• Reza Afshari, Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism (2001)
• Ming Wan, Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations Defining and Defending National Interests (2001)
• Richard Pierre Claude, Science in the Service of Human Rights (2002), "Best Book in Human Rights" by the American Political Science Association, 2003.
• Makau Mutua, Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2002)
• John O'Manique, The Origins of Justice: The Evolution of Morality, Human Rights, and Law (2002)
• Human Rights Under African Constitution: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves (Abdullahi An-Na'im ed., 2003
• Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Women in Israel: A State of Their Own (2003)
• Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law (Stephen Macedo, ed., 2003)
• A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights (Edward A. Kolodziej ed., 2003)
• Teresa Godwin Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions (2004)
• Human Rights, The Rule of Law, and Development in Africa (Paul Tiyambe Zeleza & Philip J. McConnaughay eds., 2004)
• Naomi Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (2004)
• Stephen Landsman, Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (2005)
• Eric Stover, The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (2005).  “Best Book in Human Rights” by the American Political Science Association, 2005.
• Susan Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005)
• A Voice for Human Rights: Mary Robinson (Kevin Boyle ed., 2005)
• Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (2006)
• Economic Rights in Canada and the United States (Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann & Claude E. Welch, Jr. eds., 2006) ISBN 10-0-8122-3925-3
• Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide (Scott Leckie & Anne Gallagher eds. 2006) ISBN 10-0-8122-3017-4
• Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (Anthony Chase & Amr Hamzawy eds., 2006)
• Abdullahi Ahmed An Na’im, African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006)
• Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action (3d ed. Richard Pierre Claude & Burns H. Weston eds., 2006)
• Erin Daly & Jeremy Sarkin, Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2007)
• Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Human Rights in Turkey (2007)
• Sonia Cardenas, Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure (2007)
• The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary (William F. Schulz ed., 2007)
• David Weissbrodt & Connie de la Vega, International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (2007)
• The Age of Apology: Facing up to the Past (Mark Gibney, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, & Niklaus Steiner eds., 2007)
• Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (Audrey Chapman & Hugo van der Merwe eds., 2007)

Articles

Litigating State Constitutional Rights to Happiness and Safety: A Strategy for Ensuring the Provision of Basic Needs to the Poor, 2 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1 (Spring 1993) (with R. Owens & G. Severyn).

Toward the Economic Brown: Economic Rights in the United States and the Possible Contribution of International Human Rights Law, in World Justice?, U.S. Courts and International Human Rights (Mark Gibney ed., 1992).

Briefs

Scarlet Daugherty, et al., v. Terry A. Wallace, Case No. 92-1206, Brief of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights as Amicus Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs, Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County, Ohio, March 18, 1992.

Brief of Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, Middle East Watch and Women's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch as Amicus Curiae, State Council of the Arab Republic of Egypt, October 22, 1991.