Episode 16: The Revolution Continues with Radical Human Rights Lawyers Professor Clara Sandoval-Villalba and Chris Esdaile

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This episode is in honour of Azul Rojas Marin and the struggle for LGBTQ rights around the world. Clara Sandoval is Professor of Human Rights Law at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and co-director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network at Essex. Clara is co-authored of the book Doctrine, Practice, and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System (OUP, 2019). Chris Esdaile is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS. Previously, he worked at Leigh Day, Solicitors, using legal action in England to hold large UK companies to account for harming people in other countries, and latterly working on some of the claims resulting from alleged mistreatment by British forces during the Iraq conflict. Prior to that he had worked on human rights issues in South Africa, Chile and in the UK. A UK-qualified solicitor, Chris has an LLM in International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary, University of London. Learn more about the case of Azul: https://redress.org/casework/azul-rojas-marin-formerly-luis-alberto-rojas-marin/ Learn more about the Essex Human Rights Centre: https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/human-rights