Kim Thuy Seelinger, JD
Director, Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration
- Email: kseelinger@nospam.wustl.edu
Additional Titles: Research Associate Professor, Brown School; Visiting Professor, School of Law
Professor Seelinger focuses on gender-based violence related to armed conflict and forced displacement, specifically on systems of legal accountability and survivors’ access to support and protection. After representing refugees and survivors of sexual violence as a lawyer for many years, she has for the past decade focused on their individual and procedural challenges in her research and advice to global policymakers. Specifically, Seelinger seeks to better understand the experience of survivors moving through health and legal systems, with an aim of improving their access to support and justice. She also regularly contributes to global guidance regarding the gender-sensitive investigation of atrocity crimes, legal protection for refugees, and holistic care of survivors of gender-based violence. Seelinger has served as an adviser to global leaders on these issues, including the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.