Leonard Hammer, Ph.D.
Leonard Hammer is the holder of the Lakin Chair for the Holocaust, Comparative Genocide, and Human Rights at the University of Arizona’s Center for Judaic Studies. He has written articles about cultural heritage protection, human rights, and international law. His books include A Foucauldian Approach to International Law: Descriptive Thoughts for Normative Issues (Routledge, 2007), The International Human Right to Freedom of Conscience: Some Suggestions for Its Development and Application (Routledge, 2017), and The Contest and Control of Jerusalem's Holy Sites: A Historical Guide to Legality, Status, and Ownership (co-authored with Marshall J. Breger, Cambridge University Press, 2023). He has co-edited a number of books on holy places and on human rights. Leonard has worked for the Open Society Foundation to develop human rights programming in former USSR countries and has around the world on a variety of human rights projects. Leonard also co-created the wholly online Human Rights Practice graduate degree at the University of Arizona in 2016-17, a project-based degree involving NGOs and guest lecturers from around the world.
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