May 29, 2003
Memorial planned for law professor
A campus memorial will be held Tuesday, June 3, for Joan Fitzpatrick, the internationally known human rights expert and professor of law who died May 16.
The memorial event will take place at 2:30 p.m. at the Center for Urban Horticulture.
Fitzpatrick, the Jeffrey and Susan Brotman Professor of Law, was an expert on such human-rights topics as refugees, capital punishment, torture and arbitrary detention.
During her 20 years on the UW faculty, she taught constitutional, immigration, human rights and refugee law, and was the author of six books and numerous articles. She frequently collaborated with faculty and students at the Jackson School of International Studies and Evans School of Public Affairs.
Fitzpatrick also served as a consultant to the UN High Commissioner on Refugees. Before entering academia, she had practiced law with the civil rights division of the Justice Department.
She had a bachelor’s in history from Rice University, a J.D. from Harvard and a Diploma in Law from Oxford.
