Anjli Parrin

Anjli Parrin is a Kenyan human rights advocate and lawyer. She currently serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and directs the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. Her practice and research focus on armed conflict and international criminal law, colonialism, discrimination and inequality, and socio-economic rights. Parrin serves as an expert witness and has contributed to war crime investigations, including for the International Criminal Court. Notably, she successfully proposed a new law on exhumations for hybrid courts and has conducted trainings on the law and science of suspicious death investigations.

Previously, Parrin worked and taught at Columbia Law School, where she was the deputy director of the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic and the Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute. She has also worked for the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and UN Development Programme Somalia, as well as for law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, and Clifford Chance LLP.