<span class="vcard">Kristie Bluett</span>

Kristie Bluett

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Kristie Bluett is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She is also a human rights advocate and independent legal consultant. Most recently, she has served as a consultant for the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Ms. Bluett previously served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a research fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and a Carter Center law fellow with the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Liberia. In 2017-2018, Ms. Bluett provided pro bono legal counseling to asylum-seekers in Greece. Her research and publications focus on individuals’ rights and States parties’ obligations under the U.N. human rights treaty system, the intersection of international human rights law and international migration, access to justice and the rule of law, and gender equality.

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Supporters and Judges of Krakow Courts hold banners during a protest against an ongoing session of the Disciplinary Chamber of Poland's Supreme Court to consider the application of the National Public Prosecutor's Office for permission to detain and forcibly bring Judge Igor Tuleya in front of Krakow's Appeal Court on April 21, 2021 in Krakow, Poland. Igor Tuleya, who had been critical of changes to Poland's justice system, had become a symbol of the struggle for judicial independence in Poland. The EU had taken Poland to court over judicial independence concerns. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
Afghan refugee women embrace at the old Vathy camp, as one is waiting to be transferred to the new Samos RIC, the first of five new 'closed' migrant camps, on the island of Samos, Greece, on September 20, 2021.

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