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James Ross

James Ross

Legal and Policy Director

James Ross is Legal and Policy Director at Human Rights Watch, where he has worked since 2001.  He previously worked in the Humanitarian Affairs office of Médecins sans Frontières in the Netherlands, in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in Cambodia for the International Human Rights Law Group, and in the Philippines for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.  He was among the student founders of the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program and later was a Visiting Fellow at the Program. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.  He has written on the laws of war, human rights in Asia, and US national security issues.

Other Material

"Black letter abuse: the US legal response to torture since 9/11," ICRC Review, September 2007

Articles Authored

  • May 24, 2017 Dispatches

    Philippine President Duterte Summons Ghost of Marcos

  • September 8, 2016 Commentary

    Duterte and the Ghosts of Plaza Miranda

    Published in Philippine Daily Inquirer
  • August 22, 2016 Dispatches

    Sri Lankan Justice Has No Place for ‘Accountable Amnesties’

  • November 22, 2015 Commentary

    Awaiting Justice For Trinco Five

    Published in The Sunday Leader
  • November 15, 2015 Commentary

    Justice for a Sri Lankan Massacre

    Published in The Sunday Leader
  • November 8, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Sri Lanka Homecoming

  • October 26, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Sri Lanka’s Army Plays by the Old Rules

  • October 9, 2015 Commentary

    Why War Crimes Charges Now Extend to the Destruction of Ancient Monuments

    Published in Reuters
  • October 9, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Joker Arroyo, 1927-2015

  • December 11, 2014 Commentary

    Details of how U.S. rebuked foreign regimes while using same torture methods

    Published in Reuters

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