Bert B. Lockwood
Bert B. Lockwood
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, College of Law
523 College of Law Building
Areas of Interest: Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Human Rights
About
Professor Lockwood is the Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the renowned Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, the first endowed institute at an American law school devoted to the study of international human rights. He has been involved in international human rights for over 40 years, working with the late Prof. Richard Lillich, at Syracuse and Virginia Law Schools in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. At the NYU Center for International Studies, he worked with Professor Thomas Franck and Joel Carlson, one of the leading civil rights attorneys in South Africa. He played a prominent role in Diggs. v. Schultz, a lawsuit against the Nixon Administration and Union Carbide for violating the UN mandatory economic sanctions against Southern Rhodesia.
While Associate Dean at American University Law School, he taught their first course on international human rights, and co-founded in 1978 the International Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights), one of the first public interest law firms in the international human rights field. When Cincinnati received from William J. Butler, Trustee of the Urban Morgan Trust Fund, a gift to establish a human rights program in 1979, Professor Lockwood was recruited as Director.
Since 1982, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Quarterly, a multidisciplinary academic journal published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. HRQ is widely acknowledged to be the leading journal in the field. In addition, Professor Lockwood has been Series Editor of the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, a book series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, since 1988. Over 100 books have been published in the Series.
Among his professional activities Lockwood has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA, submitted amicus curiae briefs to a number of courts, served for 20 years as the Rapporteur of the Annual Colloquium on "The Role of Government Departments in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Considerations in Foreign Policy" convened by the American Association of the International Commission of Jurists. He represented the International League for Human Rights in 1986 on a mission to Chile to investigate the human rights abuses of the Pinochet Regime. In 1994 he was a monitor for the International Commission of Jurists for the South African Elections. He has been actively involved with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and provided the contents for their first exhibit on "The Struggle Continues" focusing upon current human rights issues.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including being named Distinguished Service Professor, an appointment given only three times in the history of the University of Cincinnati.
Professor Lockwood often states that he has the best job in the United States. He has the privilege to work on behalf of human rights with the many talented students who have chosen to study at Cincinnati Law and to be involved with the Morgan Institute. As well, the Institute has had the strong backing of the law school Deans, faculty colleagues, and staff.
Education
BA, St. Lawrence University
JD, Syracuse University
LLM, University of Virginia
Courses Taught
- Constitutional Law I
- Human Rights Seminar
Publications
- Women's Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) (Bert B. Lockwood, Jr., ed.)
- Toward the Economic Brown: Economic Rights in the United States and the Possible Contribution of International Human Rights Law in Mark Gibney ed., World Justice? U.S. Courts and International Human Rights (Westview, 1991)
- Litigating State Constitutional Rights to Happiness and Safety: A Strategy for Ensuring the Provision of Basic Needs to the Poor, 2 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J.1 (1993) (with R. Collins Owens III and Grace A. Severyn)
- The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984)
- Preliminary Thoughts towards an International Convention on Terrorism, 68 Am. J. Int'l L. 69 (1974) (with Thomas M. Franck)
- Series Editor, Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press)
- Abramowitz, Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War (hc Jun 2014)
- Abusharaf, Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (hc 2006, pb 2007, eb 2011)
- Afshari, Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism (hc 2001, pb 2011, eb 2011)
- Alfredson, Creating Human Rights: How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World (hc 2008, eb 2011)
- An-Na'im, Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus (hc 1992, pb 1995, eb 2011)
- An-Na'im, Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves (hc 2002, eb 2011)
- An-Na'im, African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (hc 2006, eb 2011)
- An-Na'im, Muslims and Global Justice (hc 2010, eb 2011)
- Andreopoulos, Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions (hc 1994, pb 1997)
- Andreopoulos/Claude, Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (hc 1997, pb 1997)
- Arat/Falk, Human Rights in Turkey (hc 2007, eb 2011)
- Armaline/Glasberg, Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States (hc 2011, pb 2013, eb 2011)
- Bob, The International Struggle for New Human Rights (hc 2008, pb 2010, eb 2011)
- Brysk/Choi-Fitzpatrick, From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery (hc 2011, pb 2013, eb 2012)
- Burke, Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights(hc 2010, pb 2013, eb 2011)
- Cardenas, Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure (hc 2007, pb 2010, eb 2011)
- Cardenas, Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope (hc 2009, pb 2011, eb 2011)
- Cardenas, Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights (hc Mar 2014)
- Chapman/van der Merwe, Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (hc 2008)
- Chase/Hamzawy, Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (hc 2006, pb 2008, eb 2013)
- Cheng, On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea (hc 2010, pb 2013, eb 2011)
- Chon/Thet, Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims (hc 2010, eb 2011)
- Chong, Freedom from Poverty: NGOs and Human Rights Praxis (hc 2010, eb 2011)
- Claude, Science in the Service of Human Rights (hc 2002, pb 2011)
- Claude/Weston, Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action, 3/e (pb 2006)
- Compa/Diamond, Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade(hc 1996, pb 2003)
- Cook, Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (hc 1994, pb 1994, eb 2011)
- Cook/Cusack, Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives(hc 2009, pb 2011, eb 2011)
- Daly/Sarkin, Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (hc 2006, pb 2010, eb 2011)
- David, Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland (hc 2011, eb 2011)
- De Nike/Quigley, Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary (hc 2000, eb 2011)
- Eckel/Moyn, The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Encarnacion, Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting (hc Jan 2014)
- Ensalaco, Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth (hc 1999, eb 2011)
- Fast, Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism (hc May 2014)
- Fournier, Forging Rights in a New Democracy: Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice (hc 2012, eb 2012)
- Gibney/Howard-Hassmann, The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past(hc 2007, pb 2009)
- Gibney/Skogly, Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations(hc 2010, eb 2011)
- Gordy, Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milosÿevic« Serbia (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Guest, Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the United Nations (hc 1990, pb 1990)
- Halperin-Kaddari, Women in Israel: A State of Their Own (hc 2003)
- Heidbrink, Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests (hc May 2014)
- Heineman, Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights (hc 2011, pb 2013, eb 2011)
- Hodgson, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights (hc 2011, pb 2013, eb 2011)
- Howard-Hassmann/Welch, Economic Rights in Canada and the United States (hc 2006, pb 2009, eb 2011)
- Howard-Hassmann/Lombardo, Reparations to Africa (hc 2008, pb 2011)
- Inal, Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Jeffery, Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights (hc Apr 2014)
- Jetschke, Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines (hc 2010, eb 2011)
- Juviler, Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States (hc 1997, eb 2011)
- Kamminga, Inter-State Accountability for Violations of Human Rights (hc 1992)
- Kang, Human Rights and Labor Solidarity: Trade Unions in the Global Economy (hc 2012, eb 2012)
- Kapchan, Cultural Heritage in Transit: Intangible Rights as Human Rights (hc May 2014)
- Kapteijns, Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (hc 2012, eb 2012)
- Keith, Political Repression: Courts and the Law (hc 2011, eb 2011)
- Kelly, This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty (hc 2011, pb 2013, eb 2011)
- Kent, China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance (hc 1999, pb 1999, eb 2011)
- Klose/Geyer, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Kolodziej, A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights (hc 2003, eb 2011)
- Landsman, Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases(hc 2005, eb 2011)
- Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen, 3/e (pb 2011, eb 2013)
- Leckie/Gallagher, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide (hc 2006, eb 2011)
- Lemarchand, Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory (hc 2011, pb 2013, eb 2011)
- Macedo, Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law (hc 2003, pb 2006)
- Magarrell/Wesley, Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States (hc 2008, pb 2010)
- Merali/Oosterveld, Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (hc 2001, eb 2011)
- Mibenge, Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender from the War Narrative (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Mitoma, Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Monshipouri, Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights (hc 2009, pb 2012, eb 2011)
- Morsink, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent (hc 1999, pb 2000, eb 2011)
- Morsink, Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration (hc 2009, eb 2011)
- Mutua, Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (hc 2002, pb 2008, eb 2011)
- Mutua, Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions (hc 2008, eb 2011)
- O'Manique, The Origins of Justice: The Evolution of Morality, Human Rights, and Law (hc 2002)
- Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions (hc 2004, pb 2006, eb 2011)
- Price, Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (hc 2010, pb 2012, eb 2011)
- Quataert, Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics (hc 2009, pb 2010, eb 2011)
- Quirk, The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking (hc 2011, eb 2011)
- Reardon, Educating for Human Dignity: Learning About Rights and Responsibilities (hc 1995, pb 1995, eb 2011)
- Reichenbach/Roseman, Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward (hc 2009, pb 2011, eb 2011)
- Robinson/Boyle, A Voice for Human Rights (hc 2005, pb 2007, eb 2011)
- Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (hc 2005, pb 2006, eb 2011)
- Ross, Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook (hc 2008, pb 2009, eb 2011)
- Sabatello/Schulze, Human Rights and Disability Advocacy (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Schirmer, The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy (hc 1998, pb 1999, eb 2011)
- Schulz/Méndez, The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary (pb 2007, eb 2011)
- Schulz, The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era (hc 2008, pb 2009)
- Siegel, Employment and Human Rights: The International Dimension(hc 1993)
- Sluga, Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (hc 2005, pb 2005)
- Slyomovics, How to Accept German Reparations (hc May 2014)
- Soohoo/Albisa, Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States, Abridged Edition (pb 2009)
- Stover, The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (hc 2005, pb 2007, eb 2011)
- Theidon, Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru (hc 2012, eb 2012)
- Thomas, Immigration, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in France: A Comparative Framework (hc 2011, eb 2011)
- Tolley, The International Commission of Jurists: Global Advocates for Human Rights (hc 1994, eb 2011)
- Visweswaran, Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Walling, All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention (hc 2013, eb 2013)
- Wan, Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests (hc 2001, eb 2013)
- Weissbrodt/de la Vega, International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (hc 2007, pb 2010)
- Welch, Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Nongovernmental Organizations (hc 1995, pb 2001)
- Welch, NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance (hc 2000)
- Whelan, Indivisible Human Rights: A History (hc 2010, eb 2011)
- Wildenthal, The Language of Human Rights in West Germany (hc 2012, eb 2012)
- Zeleza/McConnaughay, Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa (hc 2004, eb 2011)
- Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics(2009) (Jean H. Quataert)
- African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006) (Abdullahi An-Na'im, ed.)
- Age of Apology, The: Facing Up to the Past (2007) (Mark Gibney, Rhonda E. Howard-Hassman, Jean-Marc Coicaud & Niklaus Steiner, eds.)
- Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the United Nations (1990) (Iain Guest)
- Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (abridged edition, 2009) (Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, & Martha F. Davis, eds.)
- Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth (1999) (Mark Ensalaco)
- China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance (1999) (Ann Kent)
- Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure (2007) (Sonia Cardenes)
- Creating Human Rights: How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World (2008) (Lisa S. Alfredson)
- Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (2005) (Stephan Landsman)
- Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (2010) (Roland Burke)
- Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa, The (2009) (René Lemarchand)
- Economic Rights in Canada and the United States (2006) (Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman & Claude E. Welch, Jr., eds.)
- Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide (2006) (Scott Leckie & Anne Gallagher, eds.)
- Educating for Human Dignity: Learning About Rights and Responsibilities (1995) (Betty Reardon)
- Employment and Human Rights: The International Dimension (1993) (Richard Lewis Siegel)
- Evolution of International Human Rights, The: Visions Seen (2d Ed. 2003) (Paul Gordon Lauren)
- Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (2006) (Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, ed.)
- Force Profonde, A: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights(2003) (Edward A. Kolodziej, ed.)
- Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States (1997) (Peter Juviler)
- From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (2009) (Thomas F. Jackson)
- Future of Human Rights, The: U.S. Policy for a New Era (2008) (William F. Schulz, ed.)
- Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives (2009) (Rebecca J. Cook & Simone Cusack)
- Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary (2000) (Howard J. De Nike, John Quigley, & Kenneth J. Robinson, eds.)
- Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions (1994) (George J. Andreopoulos, ed.)
- Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (2002) (Isfahan Merali & Valerie Oosterveld, eds.)
- Guatemalan Military Project, The: A Violence Called Democracy (1998) (Jennifer Schirmer)
- Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (1997) (George J. Andreopoulos & Richard Pierre Claude, eds.)
- Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests (2001) (Ming Wan)
- Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus(1992) (Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, ed.)
- Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism (2001) (Reza Afshari)
- Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope (2009) (Sonia Cardenas)
- Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (2006) (Anthony Chase & Amr Hamzawy, eds.)
- Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action (3d Ed. 2006) (Richard Pierre Claude & Burns H. Weston, eds.)
- Human Rights in Turkey (2007) (Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, ed.)
- Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions(2008) (Makau Mutua, ed.)
- Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives(1994) (Rebecca J. Cook, ed.)
- Human Rights under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves (2002) (Abdullahi An-Na'im, ed.)
- Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade (2003) (Lance A. Compa & Stephen F. Diamond, eds.)
- Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa (2004) (Paul T. Zeleza & Philip J. Mcconnaughay)
- Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2002) (Makau Mutua)
- Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2002) (Makau Mutua)
- Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration (2009) (Johannes Morsink)
- Inter-State Accountability for Violations of Human Rights (1992) (Menno T. Kamminga)
- International Commission of Jurists, The: Global Advocates for Human Rights (1994) (Howard B. Tolley, Jr.)
- International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (2007) (David Weissbrodt & Connie de la Vega)
- International Struggle for New Human Rights, The (2008) (Clifford Bob, ed.)
- Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (2009) (Julie Peteet)
- Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States (2008) (Lisa Magarrell & Joya Wesley)
- Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights(2009) (Mahmood Monshipouri)
- NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance (2000) (Claude E. Welch, Jr., ed.)
- On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea (2010) (Sealing Cheng)
- Origins of Justice, The: The Evolution of Morality, Human Rights, and Law (2002) (John O'Manique)
- Performance of Human Rights in Morocco, The (2005) (Susan Slyomovics)
- Phenomenon of Torture, The: Readings and Commentary (2007) (William F. Schulz, ed.)
- Pinochet Effect, The: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights(2005) (Naomi Roht-Arriaza)
- Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Nongovernmental Organizations (2001) (Claude E. Welch, Jr.)
- Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2006) (Erin Daly & Jeremy Sarkin, eds.)
- Reparations to Africa (2008) (Rhonda E. Howard-Hassman & Anthony P. Lombardo)
- Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward (2009) (Laura Reichenbach & Mindy Jane Roseman, eds.)
- Science in the Service of Human Rights (2002) (Richard Pierre Claude)
- Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of the Truth Commissions (2004) (Teresa Godwin Phelps)
- Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (2008) (Audrey R. Chapman & Hugo van der Merwe, eds.)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The: Origins, Drafting, and Intent (1999) (Johannes Morsink)
- Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes under International Law (2003) (Stephen Macedo, ed.)
- Voice for Human Rights, A: Mary Robinson (2005) (Kevin Boyle, ed.)
- Witnesses, The: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague(2005) (Eric Stover)
- Women in Israel: A State of Their Own (2003) (Ruth Halperin-Kaddari)
- Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook (2008) (Susan Deller Ross, ed.)
Awards
- 2011 King Legacy Award
- 2010 Citizen Diplomat: Professional Resources
- 2000 Just Community Award, University of Cincinnati
- 1998 Distinguished Service Professorship
- 1996 Faculty Achievement Award
- 1991 Honoree, Cincinnati Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union
- 1991 Sol Feinstone Alumni Award for the Promotion of Individual Freedoms (awarded by St. Lawrence University)