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Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic and child advocate, is Director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of the Northwestern University School Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic. Dohrn was a leader of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and the Weather Underground. She is an author and co-editor of two books: “A Century of Juvenile Justice” (2002) and “Resisting Zero Tolerance: A Handbook for parents, Teachers and Students” (2001) and the author of Somethin’s Happening Here: Children and Human Rights Jurisprudence in Two International Courts. Dohrn teaches children’s rights and international human rights law at Northwestern and is an annual visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Leiden University faculty of law in the Netherlands. She writes and lectures on international human rights law, war and peace, race and juvenile justice, children in conflict with the law, torture, family violence and school law. She has traveled on human rights delegations to Colombia, Rwanda and South Africa