Perfecto Boyet Caparas

Perfecto “Boyet” Caparas serves as the Associate Director of Graduate Programs (August 14, 2015-present). He previously worked as Graduate Studies and International Affairs Program Manager (January 1, 2014-August 13, 2015) and as Graduate Studies Program Manager (June 1, 2012-December 31, 2014). Before that, he served as program manager of the Program in International Human Rights Law from July 2008-May 2012 and as a staff member from October 2006-June 2008.

In 2008, he conceptualized, originated and established the Pro Bono United Nations Human Rights Reporting Initiative, an experiential human rights, legal and pedagogical initiative to help train J.D. and international LL.M. students to become international human rights lawyers. He conceptualized and initiated the law school’s first UN Human Rights Council universal periodic review report and several other UN human rights treaty body reports. He personally trained, directed and supervised students in doing hands-on and actual international human rights law research, analysis, writing, networking, lobbying and/or advocacy involving human rights reports submitted to the UN about Cape Verde, Philippines, Australia, Chad, USA, Panama, Zambia, and Egypt. He officially represented IU McKinney at the UN particularly in sessions of the UN Human Rights Committee by orally intervening during its closed-door session and giving private briefings to independent experts (New York and Geneva) and of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Geneva). Beginning in 2007, he officially represented IU McKinney in working with the UN Economic and Social Council-Committee on NGOs and, in 2011, finally secured an ECOSOC special consultative status for PIHRL-IU McKinney. [Continue]