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Jo Pasqualucci

  • Jo M. Pasqualucci joined the faculty of the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1996. She earned her JD from the University of Wisconsin in 1986 and her SJD in International and Comparative Law from George Washington University Law School in 2002. She had previously been an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law and a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin and George Washington University. She practiced law as a commercial litigator with Foley & Lardner and clerked for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San Jose, Costa Rica.
  • Professor Pasqualucci teaches Public International Law, International Business Transactions, Commercial Law, and Secured Transactions. She is also the faculty advisor to the Law Review.
  • During the summers she has directed overseas law programs in Geneva, Switzerland and Buenos Aires, Argentina and taught in Freiberg, Germany.
  • Professor Pasqualucci received the John Wesley Jackson award in 2002 and 2009.
  • Her research and writing is in the areas of International Human Rights Law and U.S. Commercial Law. Her most recent publications include International Indigenous Land Rights: A Critique of the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Light of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Wisconsin International Law Journal (forthcoming 2009); The Right to a Dignified Life (Vida Digna): The Integration of Economic and Social Rights with Civil and Political Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System, 31 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 1-32 (2008) (lead article); and Chapter entitled The harmonization of human rights laws: Guaranteeing the Plurality of Human Rights in harmonizing law in an era of globalization (Larry Cata Backer  ed, Carolina Academic Press, 2007). The Practice and Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Cambridge, 2003) which is available at amazon.com; The Evolution of International Indigenous Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System (2006); Protecting Against Direct and Indirect Attacks on Freedom of Expression: The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2006); Interim Measures in International Human Rights (2005); The Harmonization of Human Rights Laws: Guaranteeing the Plurality of Individual Rights (2005); The Advisory Practice and Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Contributing to the Evolution of International Human Rights Law, 38 Stanford Journal of International Law 241 (2002).

Jo M. Pasqualucci

Pasqualucci Professor of Law