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Professor Fran Quigley Book Talk Highlights
Grassroots Political Movement in Haiti
Professor Fran Quigley, ‘87, talked about his book, How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: The
Activists, the Lawyers, and the Grassroots Movement, during a lecture in the Wynne Courtroom
at Inlow Hall on October 14. The work was published by Vanderbilt University Press.
The book examines how Haiti is transforming its
human rights legacy through its bottom-up social
movement, which is being supported by local and
international challenges to the status quo. In the
book, Quigley profiles the lawyers and their clients
who are fighting against the cycle of disaster,
corruption, and violence that characterizes the
nation’s history. One of the individuals profiled in
the book, Mario Joseph, is the lawyer who leads
Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, an organization
based in Port-au-Prince that helps victims
prosecute human rights cases, and trains Haitian
lawyers. Joseph delivered the commencement
address at IU McKinney in 2013. ❖
(TOP) Professor Quigley’s book, How Human Rights Can Build
Haiti: The Activists, the Lawyers, and the Grassroots Movement,
was published by Vanderbilt University Press.
(LOWER) Professor Quigley, speaking here in the Wynne
Courtroom, traveled to Haiti frequently while researching and
writing his book.
IU ROBERT H. McKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW / Summer 2015 Alumni Magazine 39