Jim Wilets is a Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University and is Chair of the Inter-American Center for Human Rights. He received his M.A. in International Relations from Yale University in 1994, his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1987, and received his B.A. from the University of Washington in 1982. He prepared, at the request of the UN Secretary-General, the first two drafts of a proposal for reforming the human rights functions of the United Nations. He has worked as an attorney for the International Human Rights Law Group in Romania, as a representative of the National Democratic Institution on a human rights mission to Liberia, in conjunction with the Carter Center and assisted with drafting a proposed Basic Law for a future Palestinian state.
He writes extensively on international and comparative law with a particular focus on human rights. He recently completed a chapter on War Crimes Tribunals for the “Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine”, two chapters in the book: “The Marriage and Same-Sex Unions Debate: An Anthology.”