Editorial Board Members

David L. Richards is associate professor of human rights and political science at the University of Connecticut. His body of work on human rights includes more than two-dozen studies of gender-violence law, torture, globalization, and the measurement of government respect for human rights. He has authored several reports for governments and international organizations. David is likely best known as the co-founder/director of the now-archived Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project, whose data have been used by many international organizations as well as governments, media, activists, businesses, scholars, and students in 170 over countries.