Kristine Beckerle

Kristine Beckerle (@K_Beckerle) is the Cover-Lowenstein Fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, a Clinical Lecturer in Law, and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Her work focuses on international humanitarian law violations and international human rights abuses during conflict, with a particular focus on reparations for mass violations. She was the Accountability and Redress Director at Mwatana for Human Rights between 2019 and 2021, and the Human Rights Watch Yemen researcher between 2016 and 2019. Earlier, she worked as the Human Rights Watch Finberg Fellow, authoring a report on Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship system, and before that with the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, working on issues related to gender-based violence and international protection. She holds a law degree from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard University. She speaks English and Arabic.