Chelsea Purvis
International Member and Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at INTERIGHTS, Yale Law School
Chelsea Purvis is currently the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights in London. She earned a BA in History from Yale College in 2006, graduating with highest honours. She studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earning an MPhil in Economic and Social History in 2008. In 2011 she received her JD from Yale Law School.
At INTERIGHTS, Chelsea supports litigation and capacity development on the rights of women, sexual minorities, and people with disabilities in Europe and Africa. At Yale Law School she served as Student Director of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, the Immigration Legal Services Clinic, the Temporary Restraining Order Project, and the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Previously she has worked for organizations including Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, the International Association of Women Judges, and the International Rescue Committee. Chelsea's writing on international law has been published in several law journals. Chelsea is an American-qualified lawyer (New York).
Publications
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Chelsea Purvis, Comment: Coastal State Jurisdiction Under UNCLOS, 16 YALE J. INT'L L. 207 (2011).
Chelsea Purvis, The Role of the Committee to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Nov. 15, 2011) (Yale Law Sch. Int'l Law and Foreign Aff. Seminar), available at
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/cglc/Purvis_RoleOfThe CEDAWcommittee.pdf.
Chelsea Purvis, Book Note, 13 Yale Hum. Rts. & Dev. L.J. 552 (reviewing MICHAEL WINDFUHR & JENNIE JONSÉN, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: TOWARDS DEMOCRACY IN LOCALIZED FOOD SYSTEMS (2005)).
With Oona Hathaway et al., The Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict, MINN. L.R. (forthcoming).
With Oona Hathaway et al., Human Rights Abroad: When Do Human Rights Treaty Obligations Apply Extraterritorially?, 43 ARIZ. S.L.J. 1 (2011).
With Oona Hathaway et al., Arms Trafficking: The International and Domestic Legal Framework (Nov. 15, 2011) (Yale Law Sch. Int'l Law and Foreign Aff. Seminar), available at http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/cglc/YLSreport_armsTrafficking.pdf.
With Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, The Involvement and Responsibilities of International Financial Institutions in Asian Farmland Investment, 18 Lok Niti: J. S. ASIAN LAND COAL. 95 (2012).
With ALLARD K. LOWENSTEIN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC AT YALE LAW SCHOOL, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN SOUTHERN-SUDAN: JUSTICE FOR WOMEN LONG OVERDUE: A STUDY FOR THE ENOUGH PROJECT (2011), available at http://www.enoughproject.org/files/Lowenstein%20Study%20-%20Sudan.pdf.
Interests
Research: Women's human rights, the rights of people with disabilities, the rights of sexual minorities, human trafficking, asylum/immigration, African regional human rights law, European regional human rights law, human rights in the United States
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