Bede M. SheppardBede Sheppard is the inaugural international human rights fellow at CMHT. Prior to coming to CMHT, Mr. Sheppard was the Leonard H. Sandler Fellow in the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch, where he conducted fact-finding, research, and advocacy on a variety of human rights issues in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia. He authored the Human Rights Watch reports "Condemned Communities: Forced evictions in Jakarta," and "Scared Silent: Impunity for Extrajudicial Killings in the Phillipines." Mr. Sheppard has also worked as an Associate Field Officer with the United Nations' Refugee Agency (UNHCR), in Croatia. Mr. Sheppard has a B.A. from Harvard College (2000), a J.D. from Columbia Law School (2005), and a Masters degree in forced migration and development economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (M.A.L.D. 2005). His Masters dissertation examined the impact of domestic law in Iran and Turkey on the livelihood strategies of refugees, and was based on field research supported in part by the American Foreign Law Association's Hazard Fellowship for research in comparative international law. At Columbia, Mr. Sheppard participated in the Human Rights Clinic, and competed in the Jessup International Moot Court team, which won first place in the U.S. in 2003. He also worked as a teaching assistant and a research assistant on human rights law. Mr. Sheppard has interned with the United Nations' Refugee Agency in Tehran, Iran, and with the Human Rights Clinic at Fourah Bay College, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Mr. Sheppard is admitted to practice in New York. His application to the District of Columbia Bar is pending and he is currently practicing under the supervision of Agnieszka M. Fryszman, an enrolled active member of the District of Columbia Bar, pursuant to Rule 49(c)(8) of the Rules of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Contact: bsheppard@cmht.com Practice Area: |
