Thomas Antkowiak

Biography

Professor Antkowiak is an Assistant Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. Before joining the law school, he taught a seminar on human rights law at the George Washington University Law School and directed the Access to Justice Program at the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF). Prior to DPLF, he served as a supervising attorney and visiting scholar at George Washington’s International Human Rights Clinic. Previously, Professor Antkowiak was a senior attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States. He has worked with a number of institutions on human rights matters, and served as a special assistant to Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate and president of Costa Rica.

Professor Antkowiak’s teaching and research interests include international law, global and regional human rights systems, and remedies. His work has appeared in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and the Michigan Journal of International Law, among other publications.

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, Vol. 46, No. 2 of The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2008)

Co-editor of Victims Unsilenced: The Inter-American Human Rights System and Transitional Justice in Latin America, published by the United States Institute of Peace and the Due Process of Law Foundation (2007)

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)

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