Dina Francesca Haynes teaches Immigration Law, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering, International Women's Issues, Refugee and Asylum Law, and Property. She previously taught Public International Law, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Immigration, and Refugee and Asylum Law at Georgetown University Law Center, American University's Washington College of Law, and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Before teaching, she served as director general of the Human Rights Department for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as human rights adviser to the OSCE in Serbia and Montenegro. She also served as a protection officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Croatia. Professor Haynes was an assistant district counsel with the United States Department of Justice in the Honor Program and clerked on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She researches and writes in the areas of international law, international organizations, ethics and self-care of international civil servants, immigration law, human rights law, human trafficking, post-conflict reconstruction, humanitarian law, and migration.
Selected Publications
- (Not) Found Chained to a Bed in a Brothel: Conceptual, Legal and Procedural Failures Fulfill the Promise of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 21 Geo. Immigr. L.J. ___ (Spring 2007)
- The Nature of International Administration in Deconstructing the Reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina (U. Penn. Press, Forthcoming)
- How Can a Bosnia Happen? Book Review of Keith Doubt's Understanding Evil, 29 Hum. Rts. Q. 1144 (2007)
- Client-Centered Human Rights Advocacy, 13 Clinical L. Rev. 379 (2006)
- Used, Abused, Arrested and Deported: Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect the Victims of Trafficking and Secure the Prosecution of Traffickers, 26 Hum. Rts. Q. (2004), reprinted in Women's Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader (Bert Lockwood, ed.) (2006)
Last Updated: 08/09/2007