Janet Benshoof
Lawyer, Award Winner
1947 –
Who is Janet Benshoof?
Janet Benshoof is an American human rights lawyer, and President of the Global Justice Center.
She graduated from the University of Minnesota summa cum laude, and from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor. She has taught human rights law at Bard College and Harvard Law School.
She established landmark legal precedents in the U.S. Supreme Court and international forums. She launch successful legal efforts from the approval of emergency contraception for women by the United States Food and Drug Administration, to the application of international rape law to ensure the rights of women in the Iraq High Tribunal prosecutions of Saddam-era war crimes. She also lectures and trains women leaders, judges, parliamentarians, and various UN bodies on implementing international human rights laws and international humanitarian law, including women's rights to criminal accountability under Security Council Resolutions and by the International Criminal Court.
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- Born
- 1947
Detroit Lakes - Also known as
- Janet Benshoof, JD
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard Law School
- University of Minnesota
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on July 23, 2013
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