Amy Weismann

Amy Weismann is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa and Assistant Director of the UI Center for Human Rights. She holds a JD with distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law (2000) and an AB from Bryn Mawr College (1993).

• Teaches core courses in the Human Rights Certificate program
• Assists in managing the development of the certificate program

Weismann's professional experience includes law clerk roles for the Seventh Judicial District of Iowa, a legal intern position at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and fieldwork as a humanitarian aid worker in refugee camps in the former Yugoslavia. She has also worked as a resettlement caseworker for the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and managed peace-building programs for a non-profit in Bosnia.

Her research focuses on human rights education, gender justice in international law, and post-conflict reconciliation. She contributed to editing the final judgment of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal 2000 on Japanese military sexual slavery.