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The Executive Session on Human Rights Commissions and Criminal Justice worked on projects related to several issues: police misconduct, hate or bias crimes, recruitment diversity within law enforcement agencies and selective enforcement of immigration laws.
The Executive Session's projects aimed to document innovative work by commissions, to compare a variety of approaches to similar problems, and to produce tools that commissions can use as they expand their work with the criminal justice system. Individual projects engaged members of the Session with Harvard faculty and students. Most resulted in publications available on this website and some factored into public discussion of the issues and experiences elsewhere.
In addition to demonstration projects and case studies, we prepared two overview papers. One discusses differences and similarities between U.S. human rights commissions and national human rights institutions (NHRIs). The second traced the history of the development and growth of human rights commissions in the United States, with an emphasis on work done in the criminal justice area.
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