LORNA McGREGOR, 2002

I graduated from Edinburgh Law School in 2001 and studied for the LLM degree at Harvard Law School in 2002/3, where I focused on international human rights law and transitional justice.

I found the opportunity to study at Harvard valuable because of the possibilities to combine theory with practice. I took a wide variety of courses on human rights and was also an extern with Human Rights Watch; interned with the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations in New York and with the Project on Justice in Times of Transition at Harvard; conducted field-research for my LLM paper in Northern Ireland and was part of a student working group which brings cases to the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights.

Following graduation, the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School awarded me a Henigson Fellowship which enabled me to spend a year in Sri Lanka, working with national human rights organisations on building momentum for a transitional justice process.

I now work for REDRESS, a human rights organisation, based in London, which seeks reparations for torture survivors, and continues to run a child rights project in Sri Lanka.