Public Interest Law Institute and CEU
An article on the Charles Mott Foundation website recently focused on Edwin Rekosh's efforts in the area of public interest law. Rekosh is the founder and executive director of the multinational Public Interest Law Institute (PILI), and this past summer tought a course at CEU Summer University: Teaching Law, Human Rights and Ethics.
"Rekosh, a New York lawyer, didn’t set out to build an international human rights advocacy organization. Rather, while working in CEE in the early 1990s, he identified the need to shape the newly established legal systems to better serve the public good.
He linked with human-rights groups working in Romania, Hungary and other emerging democracies in the region and was pleased with the results. That success prompted Rekosh to create PILI at his alma mater, Columbia University, in 1997."
Post date:
13/01/2010