Kristie Bluett

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Kristie Bluett is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She is also a human rights advocate and independent legal consultant. Most recently, she has served as a consultant for the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Ms. Bluett previously served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a research fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and a Carter Center law fellow with the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Liberia. In 2017-2018, Ms. Bluett provided pro bono legal counseling to asylum-seekers in Greece. Her research and publications focus on individuals’ rights and States parties’ obligations under the U.N. human rights treaty system, the intersection of international human rights law and international migration, access to justice and the rule of law, and gender equality.