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Jamie Rowen
Year: Advanced Grad Student - JSP
Biography:I was born in Alaska, educated in California and have been interested in international human rights since high school. I attended Swarthmore College and UC Berkeley to pursue a degree in peace and conflict studies. As an undergraduate, I studied abroad in Costa Rica and Vietnam, gaining fluency in Spanish, competence in Vietnamese, salsa dancing expertise and experience in human rights research and practice.
As an undergraduate and graduate student, I worked abroad in Croatia, South Africa and Morocco, traveled through 40 countries and volunteered with a variety of human rights organizations. I speak Spanish and French fluently, intermediate Bosnian, beginning Vietnamese, Hebrew and Arabic.I have also studied and practiced yoga since 1995 and instructed since 2000.
My older brother works in the Philippines while the rest of my family is in California, including my twin sister who recently began a residency in obstetrics/gynecology at UCSF.
Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA. Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. JD 2009, Expected PhD 2011. (Fall 2005-present)
University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. BA in Peace and Conflict Studies with High Honors. (Fall 2000-Spring 2004) Vietnam National University, University of Costa Rica
Swarthmore College: Swarthmore, PA. (Fall 1999, Spring 2000)
Human Rights
Transitional Justice
Immigration
Legal Education
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Development Grant (2009)
Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellow (2009)
University of California- Institute of International Studies Doctoral Fellow (2009)
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program Fellowship (2009)
Prosser Prize- Quantitative Methods II
University of California- Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Research Grant (2008)
Equal Justice America Summer Fellowship (2007)
Foreign Language and Areas Studies- Fellow (2005-2007)
Rotary International- Cultural Ambassadorial Fellow (2006)
Graduate Student Instructor: Legal Studies 191: International Human Rights Law, University of California- Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Lecturer: Psychology 490: Nonviolence, Sonoma State University, Cotati, CA. (Spring 2007)
Research Assistant: Assistant Professor Sarah Song, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA. (Fall 2008)
Research Assistant: Professor Jeff Selbin, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA. (Fall 2007-current)
Research Assistant: International Human Rights Law Clinic, Professor Laurel Fletcher, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA. (Spring 2006-Spring 2008)
Articles, Papers and Conferences:
Rowen, Jamie. Nov. 18, 2009. "Why Question Rule of Law in 9/11 Trials?" Op-ed. San Francisco Chronicle.
Rowen, Jamie. 2008 “Philosophical Ideals and Social Realities in Transitional Justice,” Cardozo Journal of Public Law, Policy and Ethics 7:101-132.
Fletcher, Laurel, Harvey Weinstein with Jamie Rowen. 2009. “Proof, Pudding and Principles on Transitional Justice,” Human Rights Quarterly 31: 163-221.
“The Creation of Criminality in Transitional Justice,” Law and Society Association International Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 2007.
“Context, Timing, and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice: A Historical Perspective,” (presented by Laurel Fletcher), Law and Society Association International Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 2007.
“The Transitional Justice Social Movement Organization,” Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 2008.
Legal Assistant, Pro Bono Asylum Program: Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco, CA. (2005-2008)
Volunteer Work Experience:
Legal Assistant: Neighborhood Justice Community Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center, Berkeley, CA. (Fall 2009)
Consultant: Fondation Orient/Occident, Rabat, Morocco. (Summer 2008)
Consultant: Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), Johannesburg, South Africa. (Summer 2006)
Project Developer: Ma Afrika Tikkun, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Spring, Summer 2005)
Case Management Intern: International Rescue Committee, Oakland, CA. (Spring 2005)
Research Assistant: Interamerican Institute for Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica (Spring 2002)
My project analyzes transitional justice as a transnational social movement. It looks at agenda setting and the formation of strategies to promote justice and accountability in societies undergoing political transition. I will use participant observation, qualitative interviews with key informants and survey research to assess the internal dynamics and external forces that shape the agenda. As a key case to reveal these phenomena, I will analyze the current United States efforts to redress human rights abuses of the Bush era.
Curriculum Vitae