Anu Lohani, Sohn Fellow, 2010

Ms. Lohani is a 2010 LL.M. graduate of The George Washington University Law School, Washington D.C. She received her LL.M. in International and Comparative Law focusing her studies on International Trade Law, Environmental Law and Human Rights. She is a recipient of the Thomas Buergenthal scholarship that GW Law awards to its international students annually. Ms. Lohani was a member of the GW Law Alternative Dispute Resolution Board and during her LL.M. year, she worked as a research assistant to her Trade Law professor Mr. Steve Charnovitz. She was also an intern at the District of Columbia Attorney General's office- Department of Human Services, researching the rights of homeless persons such as right to shelter, right to privacy, Medicare, Medicaid etc.

Ms. Lohani received her first law degree B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India in 2008. As part of her internships while in Law School, Ms. Lohani worked with the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal as also High Court lawyers in Delhi and Bombay in India.

Prior to joining GW Law in 2009, Ms. Lohani worked in her country Nepal as a Human Rights lawyer at a leading women's rights organization- Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD) coordinating the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Shadow Report for Nepal. In her role as Program Officer, she travelled to rural parts of Nepal collecting agenda of women to be included in the Shadow Report. She was active in running an umbrella network of more than fifty non-governmental organizations in the country that work on various aspects of women's human rights.

At CIEL Ms. Lohani is contributing to a Compendium on Human Rights and the Environment that CIEL is preparing for the UN Environment Programme.