Flavio Risech-Ozeguera

CURRENT DIV II AND DIV III AREAS
Legal Studies

Ethnic Studies

Critical Race Theory

Transnational Migration Studies

US Immigration Law and History

Border Studies

Latino/a Studies

Latin American Studies

Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico

Human Rights

Refugee and Asylum Law and Policy

Genocide and War Crimes Studies

Queer Studies

Law Program Summer Internship Grants 2017
Law Program Summer Internship Grants are funded by the Lester J. Mazor Memorial Endowment and assist students with the costs of travel, housing, meals and other incidental expenses to enable them to carry out otherwise unpaid internships with law-related organizations in the US or abroad. The student’s internship must substantially involve some aspect of law or legal institutions and be social justice/human rights oriented. Eligible internships might include work with a non-profit law reform organization, or a legal advocacy program (e.g., for battered women, immigrant rights, labor rights, juvenile justice, human rights or public defenders). Internships with private law or legislative lobbying firms will generally not be funded. The internship must relate to and inform the student’s Division II or Division III studies. Second-year students must have filed Div II in order to be eligible. Division III students graduating Fall 2017, and those who will be transitioning between Div II and III in Summer 2017, are also eligible.

This year (Summer 2017) priority will be accorded to internships involving immigration and refugee advocacy. Please contact Flavio Risech frisech@hampshire.edu for information on how to develop an internship with an organization of your choice, or plug into an already-existing internship opportunity.

Applications will be due April 3, and consist of the Common Application and the Law Program supplement. Visit the Career Options Resource Center page for more information and to download the common application form. Contact Flavio Risech frisech@hampshire.edu for more information.

May Term 2014 International Human Rights at The Hague and Strasbourg!

 * Info on International Human Rights course at The Hague

Office Hours

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Biography
Flavio Risech is associate professor of law and ethnic studies and has taught at Hampshire since 1987. Formerly a practicing attorney representing low-income clients and community organizations, he was a Clinical Instructor of Law at Harvard and Northeastern law schools and has taught courses at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University. His interests include civil and human rights, transnational migrations, and Latino and Latin American studies with special focus on U.S.-Mexico border studies and on Cuba. He served as Associate Dean of Faculty for Multicultural Education from 2004 to 2007. Professor Risech is one of Hampshire's Pre-Law advisors and helps run the Hampshire Law Program and the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Program. He is also one of the faculty directors of the Hampshire in Cuba study abroad program, which he will be directing in Havana during Spring 2016.

Education
Professor Risech earned his Juris Doctor degree at Boston University School of Law, and was a Community Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree 'cum laude' from the University of South Florida, and an Associate of Arts degree at Miami-Dade College. He graduated from Miami Senior High School a really long time ago.

Courses
2014-2015

In Fall 2014, Professor Risech offered CSI-248Border Matters: Mexico and the United States and CSI-169T Constitutionally Queer: Law, Equality and Sexuality, a seminar for first-year students. In Spring 2015, he offered CSI-108 Genocide and Justice, which explores the role of the international system of human rights and humanitarian law in deterring mass human rights abuses. The course constitutes an introduction to international human rights discourses and to legal modes of analysis.

Professor Risech co-taught CSI-284 ''Policing Others' with Professor Falguni Sheth in Spring 2015. This course will examine the production of legal “others,” through state policing of various kinds of borders, spatial as well as virtual, and including the creation of rightless and stateless populations.

2015-2016

Fall 2015 Professor Risech will co-teach (with Prof. Cerullo) CSI 274 Cuba: Revolution and Its Discontents, the prerequisite course for participation in the Hampshire in Cuba spring term study abroad program. This course offers an in-depth interdisciplinary study of the complex history and contemporary reality of Cuba, its relationship to the US and to its diaspora in Miami and elsewhere. Students interested in the Cuba program should visit the Global Education Office's Cuba exchange program page for complete information.

His other Fall 2015 course is CSI 186 Race in Court: Theorizing the Color of Law, which investigates the legal history of race in the United States, especially as articulated in Supreme Court decisions. The course constitutes an introduction to Critical Race Theory and related critical theoretical perspectives.

in Spring 2016 Professor Risech will be the faculty director in residence in Hampshire's semester-long study abroad program in Havana, Cuba, and will be away from the Hampshire campus for most of the term.

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