Jillian Rafferty

Jillian Rafferty is currently the Clinical Supervising Attorney & Lecturer in Law at the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School. Jillian began her teaching career as Clinical and Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic. Previously, she served for three years as Managing Editor of the International Review of the Red Cross, and earlier as legal fellow at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

She has undertaken international legal consulting focused on a variety of legal issues, including human rights, accessibility, compliance, disarmament, and more. She has worked at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, for Harvard Law School’s Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative, the Center for Civilians in Conflict, the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, and the Carr Center for Human Rights. While in graduate school, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

Before graduate school, Jillian served as research associate and program manager at the CSIS Human Rights Initiative, focusing on developing a human rights approach to countering violent extremism around the world and helping manage the program’s budget, develop grant proposals, and coordinate large-scale projects. She also supported CSIS’s Americas Program, managing the program’s budget, drafting and editing the program’s various publications, and assisting the director to accomplish the program’s objectives.

Jillian graduated from Harvard University with a Juris Doctor and a Master of Arts in Public Policy. She is also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied International Relations and Economic Policy and served as editor-in-chief of the Sigma Iota Rho Journal of International Relations.