Hurst Hannum
Director
Mugar 250c
617.627.2244
Hurst.Hannum@tufts.edu
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Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law and has taught courses on international human rights law, peacekeeping, international organizations, self-determination, and nationalism. He has been a visiting or adjunct professor at Central European University (Budapest, 2010-2011), University of Hong Kong (2006-2008), Harvard, American University, and University of Virginia. Among many other publications, he is the author or editor of Guide to International Human Rights Practice (4th ed. 2004); International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Process (5th ed. 2011, with S.J. Anaya and D. Shelton); and Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (rev. ed. 1996). Prof. Hannum has served as a board member of Amnesty International-USA and the International Service for Human Rights (Geneva) and is currently on the International Council of Minority Rights Group International (London). He has consulted with the United Nations, OSCE, and non-governmental organizations on minority rights and aspects of the situations in Afghanistan, East Timor, Western Sahara, China, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is serving as Director of the LL.M. Program for the Fall 2012 semester.
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Louis Aucoin
Academic Director
Mugar 250b
617.627.2009
Louis.Aucoin@tufts.edu
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Louis Aucoin, Professor of Practice, is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and received his J.D. from Boston College Law School. He was employed as a Program Officer in the Rule of Law Program at the United States’ Institute of Peace (2000–2003), a Supreme Court Fellow in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Fellows Program (2001–2002), and serves as a consultant in the Justice in Times of Transition Project. He has taught at Boston University School of Law, the École Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, the Université de Poitiers and the École des Hauters Études Internationales, Paris. He is the co-founder of the Mekong Delta Regional Law Center, as well as a member of the Association of American Law Schools Section on International and Comparative Law and of the American Society of International Law. Prof. Aucoin is on leave in 2012 while he serves as the Deputy Special Representative (Rule of Law) of the U.N. Secretary-General for Liberia; he will resume his position as Academic Director in January 2013.
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Susan Assunta Simone Kang
Program Director
Mugar 250a
617.627.2521 Susan.Simone@tufts.edu
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Susan Assunta Simone Kang received a B.A. magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany, a J.D. with a Specialization in International Legal Affairs from Cornell Law School in 1999, and an LL.M. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 2009, its inaugural year. Susan is a member of the New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut bars, and worked in private practice for nine years prior to joining the LL.M. Program. Susan speaks Italian, French and Spanish. She is on leave for the Fall 2012 semester.
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Hyejin Park
Interim Program Director
Mugar 250a
617.627.2521 Hyejin.Park@tufts.edu
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A member of the New York Bar with a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and an LL.M. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Hyejin Park has a transnational background as a bilingual communicator. While at Northeastern, she held legal internships in Boston ranging from working for a U.S. federal judge to a private law firm. Before law school, Hyejin was with the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, where she assisted U.S. Foreign Service Officers in their efforts to solidify the U.S.-Korean alliance in the political, economic, and social arenas. Before that, Hyejin worked as a professional interpreter and translator for the South Korean national government, in both its executive and legislative branches. Her primary academic interest is pursuing research on the intersection of international trade law and development. She is serving as Program Director of the LL.M. Program for the Fall 2012 semester.
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Sarah Fox
LLM Program Assistant
Mugar 250
617.627.4319
Sarah.Fox@tufts.edu
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The Program Assistant assists with all aspects concerning the program, including advertising and promotion, admissions, and facilitating communication with students; as well as providing academic support to the international law faculty and liaising with the Office of Finance and Administration on budgetary and administrative matters.
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