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FUTURES OF
DEMOCRACY, TECH & HUMAN RIGHTS LAB

The Futures of Democracy, Tech & Human Rights Lab is a collaboration with students making real-world interventions in the areas of peace, justice, and human rights.

The Futures of Democracy, Tech & Human Rights Lab is a collaboration with students making real-world interventions in the areas of peace, justice, and human rights.

REAL-WORLD INTERVENTIONS

161 of my students have published their coursework as part of the engaged pedagogy in my classroom, publishing in Harvard Law School's Harvard Human Rights Journal Online, Wilson CenterUniversity of Oxford Faculty of Law's Oxford Human Rights HubOxford University Politics BlogE-International Relations, Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society (indexed in Google Scholar), Devex's Inside Development, UNICEF's Voices of Youth, and The Washington Times, among others.

6 human rights reports have been authored by my students as assignments in my courses that make real-world interventions. The reports have been cited by the UN Human Rights Council and Australian Human Rights Commission.

      • Report on democratic control of AI cited 5 times by the Australian Human Rights Commission in its report on human rights and technology.

      • Report on AI and privacy cited 3 times in UN Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/46/37).

      • Report on right to housing cited 2 times in UN Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/56/61/Add.3).

      • Report on digital technologies in the administration of justice submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the UN Secretary-General's report to the UN General Assembly  (UNGA), pursuant to UNGA resolution A/RES/77/219.

      • Report on the centrality of care and support for ongoing COVID-19 impacts submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the UN expert workshop and UN High Commissioner's report to the Human Rights Council (HRC), pursuant to HRC resolution 54/6.

      • Report on violence against women submitted to UN special rapporteur on violence against women.

Student publications from my courses are listed below as useful examples for current students.

REPORTS

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RIGHT TO REPARATIONS AND
REPARATORY JUSTICE

Prof. Jonathan Crock's Futures of Democracy, Tech & Human Rights Lab is working with students on the human right to reparations. Our work will be submitted for publication and to the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent for their report to the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council on "Provisions and Pathways to Reparatory Justice for Africans and People of African Descent."

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Submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the UN Secretary-General's report to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), pursuant to UNGA resolution A/RES/77/219.

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Submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the UN expert workshop and UN High Commissioner's report to the Human Rights Council (HRC), pursuant to HRC resolution 54/6.

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Submitted to the UN special rapporteurs on the right to adequate housing and extreme poverty and human rights.

CITED 2 TIMES in UN Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/56/61/Add.3).

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Report to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy.

CITED 3 TIMES in UN Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/46/37).

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Submitted to the Australian Human Rights Commission in response to their call for submissions regarding the Commission's "Human Rights and Technology: Discussion Paper" (December 2019).

CITED 5 TIMES in the Australian Human Rights Commission's Human Rights and Technology Final Report (2021) (https://tech.humanrights.gov.au/downloads).

PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

I am particularly interested in advising students on conducting research and publishing in the areas of peace, justice, human rights, international law, democracy and democratic theory, international relations, and international political economy, drawing on feminist, critical race, critical class, postcolonial, and intersectional approaches.

 

Below is a selection of research students did in my courses and got published.

REFUGEES & MIGRATION

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