Alice M. Miller

Alice M. Miller

Education:

University of Washington School of Law J.D. 1985
National Lawyers Guild, Law Women's Caucus, Student Bar Association

Harvard/Radcliffe College, Harvard University B.A. 1979
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Area of Concentration: Social Studies (Honors Program)
Senior Honors Thesis: "The British Union of Fascists"

Human Rights Experience:

International Human Rights Law Group
Director, Women's Rights Advocacy Program 1996 - present [on sabbatical]
Coordinator, Washington Office 1993 - 1996

Amnesty International USA
Director, Program to Abolish the Death Penalty 1990 - 1993
Coordinator, Target Sector Activities 1988 - 1992

Volunteer Leadership Positions:

Board Member, Amnesty International USA 1998-present
Co-chair, A.I.U.S.A. Steering Committee on Women's Human Rights 1996 - present
Co-founder and Member, Task Force on HIV/AIDS and Homosexuality 1990 - 1996
Board Member, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty 1989 - 1993

Selected Teaching and Training Experience:

Adjunct Faculty, Washington College of Law, American University
Graduate seminar on gender, cultural difference and human rights. (1996 -1998)

Publications:

The Potentials of a Human Rights Framework Addressing State Accountability for Hate Crimes and Domestic Violence, 1 Georgetown Journal on Gender and the Law (Spring 1998), with Meghan Faux. [forthcoming]

Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: Toward a United States and Transnational Jurisprudence, 9 Harvard Human Rights Journal 61 (Spring 1996), with Laurence Helfer.

Health, Human Rights and Lesbian Existence, 4 Health and Human Rights: An International Quarterly Journal 429 (Fall, 1995), with Ann Janette Rosga and Meg Satterthwaite.

International Standards on the Death Penalty: Shifting Discourse, 2 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 273 (Fall/Winter 1993), with Joan Fitzpatrick.

Selected Presentations and Panels:

State Accountability and Violence Symposium, Georgetown University Law Centre (1998)
Trafficking in Persons Roundtable, Washington, DC (1999)
Testimony on the Women's Convention, NGO petition under NAFTA Administration procedures (1997)
International Law Association Presentation on Trafficking, New York, NY (1997)
UNICEF Presentation on UN Conventions, UNICEF headquarters (1997)
Presentation on a Gendered Understanding of Torture Amnesty International/International Secretariat (1997)
Building a Rights Framework for Sexuality Health and Human Rights Confefence, Harvard University (1996)
Emerging issues in Women's Human Rights: Sexuality and Equality Tomassat University (1996)

Human Rights Training:

Women's Human Rights Workshops, hosted by Be Active, Be Emancipated, (B.A.B.E.) Croatia (1998)
Trafficking Workshop, GAATW, Vancouver, Canada (1997, 1998)
CEDAW Training, With UNIFEM and the International Women's Rights Action Watch/Asia Pacific (1997, 1998, 1999)
Anti-Discrimination Workshops, hosted by the International Human Rights Law Group, in Bosnia (1997, 1998)
Trafficking Workshop for GAATW, Bangkok, Thailand (1994, 1996)
Documentation Workshop for Lesbian rights activists, ILGA Conference, New York, US (1994)
Advocacy Trainings in Cambodia (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
Workshops for U.S. Ratification of Women's Convention (yearly in US since 1988)

Grants and Awards:

1987 Legal Fellowship in the International Secretariat of Amnesty International (Made possible by grant from International Human Rights Internship Program of the Institute of International Education)