Professor of Law, Faculty Chair of the Human Rights Program, and Director of the Human Rights Clinic at University of Miami School of Law

Former Senior Advisor on Gender & Equality, U.S. Department of Justice and The White House, Gender Policy Council 

Caroline Bettinger-López is a Professor of Law, Faculty Chair of the Human Rights Program, and Director of the Human Rights Clinic at University of Miami School of Law, which she founded in 2010. From 2021-2024, she served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice and the White House Gender Policy Council. From 2015-2017, she served in the Obama-Biden Administration as the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women and Senior Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden. Professor Bettinger-López focuses on gender-based violence, racial justice, and immigrants’ rights in domestic and international forums. She previously taught at University of Chicago School of Law and Columbia Law School, and worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, ACLU Women’s Rights Project, and as a federal law clerk. She is a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People and a recipient of a Roddenberry Fellowship and a TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund grant.

Professor Corinna Barrett Lain is a constitutional law scholar who writes about the influence of extralegal norms on Supreme Court decisionmaking, with a particular focus on the field of capital punishment. Her scholarship, which often uses the lens of legal history, has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and Georgetown Law Journal, among other venues. Professor Lain is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and received the University of Richmond’s Distinguished Educator Award in 2006. She is a former prosecutor and an Army veteran.

She visited the Institute from 20 May to 20 June 2024.