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Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic and child advocate, is Director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of the Northwestern University School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic.  Ms. Dohrn was an anti-war and anti-racist organizer, national officer of Students for a Democratic Society (“SDS”), a leader in the Weather Underground, and was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for a decade. 

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She is co-author of Race Course: Against White Supremacy (2009) with Bill Ayers; author and co-editor of two books:  A Century of Juvenile Justice (2002) and Resisting Zero Tolerance: A Handbook For Parents, Teachers and Students (2001); and the author of Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance in Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire (2004), and All Ellas: Girls Locked Up in Feminist Legal Studies (2004).  She has been a visiting professor, teaching Human Rights at the University of Chicago and children’s rights at the Vrije University, Leiden University, and Utrecht University in the Netherlands.  She teaches and lectures about international law and human rights, the criminalization of youth, zero tolerance, children’s rights, the struggle against racism, and peace movements.

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