2004-05 Kroc Institute Visiting Fellow

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Notre Dame, IN 46556
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Carol Pollack is a 2001 graduate of New York University School of Law, where she specialized in public international law. From 2002-2004, Carol served as a program assistant in the Ford Foundation’s Human Rights division. While there, she focused on international justice and economic, social and cultural rights grant portfolios, as well as on the establishment of the Special Initiative for Africa, soon to become an independent Africa-based foundation.

Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Carol was an international justice fellow at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) and a law clerk at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She has also worked on both international and domestic litigation pertaining to extractive industries and human rights, including the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Republic of Nicaragua case, regarding indigenous land title, adjudicated in 2000 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Carol has lived in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Ecuador, and has traveled extensively within Africa and Europe.

As a Kroc Institute Visiting Fellow in the fall of 2004, Carol is focusing on corporate accountability for complicity in egregious human rights violations. In particular, she is examining how international criminal courts and selected domestic courts have addressed this issue, and the theories that courts have used to impute responsibility to corporations, as well as the standards of accountability/elements of crimes/torts. Carol is examining the policy choices that emerge from relevant decisions and the extent to which these cases contribute to acceptable and socially useful policies.

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