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Bert B. Lockwood is a graduate of St. Lawrence University (B.A.), Syracuse University College of Law (J.D.), and the University of Virginia Law School (LL.M. with a specialization in International Law). He was Assistant Director and Senior Fellow of the NYU Center of International Studies, Program Director of the World Peace Through Law Center, and Associate Dean of the Washington College of Law at American University. In 1978, he co-founded the International Human Rights Law Group in Washington, DC. and has served in various advisory capabilities since.
Since 1979, Professor Lockwood has served as the Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he is also a professor of law. He is in his twenty-first year as Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Quarterly, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. In 1988, he developed the Pennsylvania Series in Human Rights, a human rights book series of which he remains Series Editor. Twenty-eight volumes (many of them award winners) have been published.
Professor Lockwood maintains active and extensive involvement with human rights organizations, (NGOs) and advocates around the world. He served a three-year term on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA. He has served for nine years as rapporteur to the American Association of the International Commission of Jurists Annual Colloquium on The Role of Government Departments in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Considerations in Foreign Policy. Under his Directorship, The Urban Morgan Institute hosted the first three meetings of Amnesty International Legal Support Network (1988, 1989, 1990); the educators network of Amnesty International (2000); and the Board of Directors of Amnesty International. He has recently founded a group of undergraduate human rights academic programs.
In 1999, Bert Lockwood was awarded the Distinguished Service Professorship by the University of Cincinnati (an appointment given only three times in the history of the University). This past year, Lockwood was the inaugural recipient of the Irving and Selma Harris Scholarship award. Prof. Lockwood was a speaker for the United States Information Agency to Sri Lanka and Nepal in 1998 and in 2001 he was sent to Zimbabwe to meet with human rights and women?s rights groups in the run-up to the elections.
Professor Lockwood was a Visiting Professor at the University of Essex in Colchester from January through July 2002.
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