Beatrice Lindstrom

Beatrice Lindstrom is a Senior Clinical Instructor in the International Human Rights Clinic and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on access to remedies for human rights violations, aid accountability, and Haiti. She previously served as Legal Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, leading advocacy to hold the UN accountable for the 2010 cholera epidemic there. Lindstrom was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and a Haiti expert for Freedom House. She holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law and a B.A. from Emory University.

• Education:
• J.D., NYU School of Law (Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar)
• B.A., Emory University
• Research Interests: Human rights accountability mechanisms, public health law, international law, and the role of non-state actors in rights violations.
• Recent Publications:
• "Will Lessons from Cholera in Haiti Be Applied to COVID-19?" (2020)
• "Right to Water: Remedying Violations by Nonstate Actors" (2019)
• "United States Supreme Court Considers Whether IO Immunity Is Frozen in Time" (2018)
• Awards:
• Recent Graduate Award (NYU Law Alumni Association)
• Zanmi Ayiti Award (Haiti Solidarity Network)
• Teaching: Course on Human Rights Lawyering (Spring 2026).