Prof. Claude d'Estrée 
Lecturer - Josef Korbel School of International Studies                    Director- International Human Rights Degree Program
Director - Center for Rights Development (CORD)                             Director - Human Trafficking Clinic

Buddhist Chaplain - University of Denver (DU)

ADDRESS: DU Korbel School of International Studies
Ben M. Cherrington Hall, Room 102D
2201 S. Gaylord Street
Denver, CO 80208-6286 USA
Tel: 1.303.871.6286
E-mail: cdestree@du.edu claude_destree@post.harvard.edu

All courses are at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (JKSIS) unless otherwise noted.

Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking                            (Autumn 2009)
Go to course portfolio

International Law & Human Rights (Sec. 2)
(Autumn 2009)
Go to Course Portfolio

National Security Law (Winter Quarter 2007)                         Go to course portfolio

Public International Law I & II (8 credits)
(Winter Quarter 2008 and 1st half of Spring Quarter 2009)
Go to course portfolio

Topics in International Law - Torture (3 credits)                        (2nd half of Spring Quarter 2009)                                                                                         Go to course portfolio

Homeland Security, Civil Society and Human Rights
(Spring 2008)
course usually taught by Prof. Paul Viotti

The International System I & II
(Fall Quarter 2006 & Winter Quarter 2007)
 For 2008-2009 taught by Prof. Lynn Holland and Prof. Jack Donnelly
Go to course portfolio

International Organizations
see INTS 4931 taught by Prof. Tom Rowe

Lecturer-in-Law
DU Josef Korbel School of International Studies (JKSIS)
http://www.du.edu/gsis/
(2008 - Present)

Director                                                                                    Human Trafficking Clinic                                                                  (2008 - Present)         

http://www.facebook.com/humantraffickingclinic

Visiting Professor of Law
DU Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS)
http://www.du.edu/gsis/
(2003 - 2008)

Director
Center on Rights Development (CORD)
http://www.du.edu/gsis/cord/index.html
(2007 - Present)

Senior Fellow
Institute on Globalization & Security (IGLOS)
http://www.du.edu/gsis/iglos/index.html
(2003 - 2010)

Chair
DU Task Force on Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking
http://www.du.edu/gsis/taskforce/ 
web site under construction
(2002 - 2011)

Adjunct Professor
International Disaster Psychology Program
Graduate School of Professional Psychology
http://www.du.edu/gspp/MAIDPMain.htm
(2007 - 2009)

Senior Advisor
Colorado Interagency Task Force on Trafficking  in Persons (HB 05-1143)
(2005 - 2007)

Special Rapporteur                                                                            UN.GIFT (United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking)     (2008- present)

Chair, Working Group & Chief Delegate
IOM/UNODC  (International Organization for Migration; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
Forum on Religion, Faith-based Groups and Human Trafficking
(2007)
 
Curriculum Development Committee
HSDEC (Homeland Security / Defense Education Consortium) NORTHCOM/NORAD
http://www.hsdec.org/
(2005 - 2009)

Senior Advisor
CoNEHT (Colorado Network to Eliminate Human Trafficking)
(2006 - 2010)

Instructor
Colorado Regional Community Policing Institute
http://dcj.state.co.us/crcpi/index.html
(2006 - Present)

Advisor
Colorado State Patrol Immigration Enforcement Unit
http://csp.state.co.us/ieu.cfm
(2006 - Present)

Consultant
Department of Energy/Department of Interior
(Energy Right-of-Ways and Indian Country)
http://1813.anl.gov/index.cfm
(2006 - Present)

Editorial Rerview Board
Human Right & Human Welfare
http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/main.html
(2006 - Present)

Asian Cultural Advisory Committee

Denver Zoo, Denver Zoological Foundation

http://www.denverzoo.org/

(2011 - Present)

Visiting Professor
DU Sturm College of Law
(2002 - 2005)

Visiting Scholar
DU Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies
(2002 - 2004)

Buddhist Chaplain
Harvard University
(1979 - 1990)
University of Arizona
(1990 - 1998)
George Mason University
(1998 - 2002)
University of Denver
(2004 - present)
 http://www.du.edu/crs/

Faculty Advisor
Project Dharamsala International House, University of Denver http://www.du.edu/intl/isl/isl_dharamsala.html

Member
Religion-Reconciliation Roundtable
Buddhism Roundtable (Co-Chair)
International Religious Freedom in Europe and Asia Roundtable
U.S. Department of State and
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Washington, DC

EDUCATION

Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
J.D.(Juris Doctor/Doctor of Law), 1989

Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
1987

Social Psychological Approaches to International Relations, Harvard University (GSAS),
1990

Harvard University, The Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
M.T.S. (Studiorum Theologicorum Magistri/Masters in Theological Studies), 1980 (Comparative Religion)

University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado
B.A., 1974 (Theatre Arts)

Human Trafficking causes, conditions and cures

International Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict (IHL/LOAC) private military companies (PMC)/non-international armed conflict

Torture moral. ethical & legal (doemstic and international)