Sherrie Russell-Brown

Author: Sherrie Russell-Brown

Sherrie Russell-Brown is an international human rights lawyer, who has litigated before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in the case of Juvénal Kajelijeli, authored articles on international labor rights (https://sherrierussell-brown.com/sherrie-russell-brown-labor-rights-as-human-rights-article/), international criminal law (https://sherrierussell-brown.com/sherrie-russell-brown-poisoned-chalice-the-rights-of-criminal-defendants-under-international-law-article/), international humanitarian law (https://sherrierussell-brown.com/sherrie-russell-brown-last-line-of-defense-the-doctrine-of-command-responsibility-and-gender-crimes-in-armed-conflict-article/), rape as genocide (https://sherrierussell-brown.com/sherrie-russell-brown-rape-as-an-act-of-genocide-article-2/, https://sherrierussell-brown.com/sherrie-russell-brown-a-united-nations-solution-to-a-problem-from-hell-article/) and transitional justice (https://sherrierussell-brown.com/sherrie-russell-brown-out-of-the-crooked-timber-of-humanity-the-conflict-between-south-africas-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-and-international-human-rights-norms-regarding-effective-remedies-a/), presented on issues of law and security, child soldiers in armed conflict and international child protection and conducted international labor rights advocacy training and field research in the Kingdom of Swaziland (https://sherrierussell-brown.com/sherrie-russell-brown-justice-for-all-the-struggle-for-worker-rights-in-swaziland/). Ms. Russell-Brown graduated from Columbia Law School (JD, 1992), Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, where she was a member of the Child Advocacy Clinic, a Teaching Fellow in Constitutional Law, Writing and Research Editor, Human Rights Law Review and received a Charles Evans Hughes Fellowship, awarded for showing “demonstrated concern for the legal problems of the disadvantaged and active involvement in helping disadvantaged people while a member of the Law School community.” Sherrie Russell-Brown later served as a Federal Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Earl Ben Gilliam, United States District Court for the Southern District of California, before becoming a Litigation Associate in the New York Office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where she worked with the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, including as independent counsel advising on an employment discrimination and retaliation lawsuit and complaint and gained invaluable experience in complaint and brief drafting, state and federal courts, arbitration proceedings, pre-trial depositions, dispositive and evidentiary motions, and all phases of discovery. Returning to Columbia Law School, Ms. Russell-Brown graduated with an LL.M. (1999) in international human rights law, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and received a Post-Graduate Fellowship in the Law School’s Human Rights Institute. Sherrie Russell-Brown later entered academia, teaching “Public International Law,” “International Organizations,” “International Law & State Behavior” and “War Crimes, Genocide, Terrorism and International Criminal Law,” as a tenure-track Assistant, Associate and Visiting Professor of Law at Université Lumiére, Lyon 2, Lyon, France and the University of Florida (UF), Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida (Download UF Merit Raise Letter, UF Promotion Letter and Posner, Greenberg and Compa Letters, respectively, https://sherrierussell-brown.com/university-of-florida-levin-college-of-law-merit-raise-letter/, https://sherrierussell-brown.com/university-of-florida-levin-college-of-law-teaching-research-and-service-performance-evaluation/ and https://sherrierussell-brown.com/university-of-florida-levin-college-of-law-supplemental-research-evaluations-from-professors-michael-posner-jack-greenberg-and-lance-compa/). And, although Ms. Russell-Brown has not completed her D.Phil at the University of Oxford, her thesis research is on Reservations to Multilateral Treaties, and, in particular, human rights treaties. Finally, Sherrie Russell-Brown is an actively engaged citizen, who has helped organize “homework and dinner” events, in her community, so that families could be provided with meals, during the week, while their children receive instructional help. Ms. Russell-Brown also helped organize an event to educate her community about combating childhood obesity and making healthy food choices. And, in her commitment to public service, Ms. Russell-Brown continues in her family’s tradition of service to the community. Ms. Russell-Brown’s great-grandfather, Dr. Julius Graham, was one of the co-founders of the earliest African-American-owned and operated hospitals in Detroit, Michigan - - Fairview and Parkside. He emigrated from Jamaica, West Indies, in 1919, graduated from Wilberforce University and Meharry Medical College, was a Trustee of Wilberforce and President of the Detroit Medical Society. And, her father, also a physician for the past 32-years, was a U.S. Army Medic (Schwabach, Germany) and has been part of a delegation of Caribbean doctors who coordinates a yearly trip to provide medical care and supplies to children in Jamaica.

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Hosting my parents, at my home, for Thanksgiving 2012 and my birthday.

May 24, 2013May 24, 2013 by Sherrie Russell-Brown

Dad’s (Dr. Karl Russell-Brown) Army picture.

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My grandmother (far right), Ivy May Russell-Brown, my great-grandfather (center) Dr. Julius Graham and my Aunt (center) Carol Anne Russell-Brown, as a young child.

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My grandfather, Victor Moreland Russell-Brown