Professor Theodore S. Orlin is Professor of Government and Politics and Criminal Justice at Utica College of Syracuse University. He teaches public law across the curriculum including the International Protection of Human Rights and American Constitutional Law. He is the Director of the Human Rights Advocacy Program [HRAP] whose aim is to train and counsel human rights advocates. He has done human rights training in Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, etc. He has worked with human rights groups in Africa [Cameroon, Gambia, Malawi] and Asia [Cambodia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand]. He has written extensively. He has edited and contributed to the recently published book: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights Law: A Comparative Interpretive Approach.
The book, titled "The Jurisprudence of Human Rights Law: A Comparative Interpretive Approach", is the first of its kind to compare the answers given to certain pertinent human rights issues by various national, regional and international courts or tribunals. Together, nine qualified human rights experts examine such topics as the death penalty, indigenous land rights, euthanasia and assisted suicide, non-discrimination in the field of social security, Holocaust denial and freedom of expression, and more. One aim of this novel undertaking, according to the editors, is to help prepare the advocate and student to deal with the process of comparative analysis.
Dr. Orlin, who teaches public law across the college curriculum and is a human rights attorney, made human rights protection a priority in his life in 1972, while studying at the Council of Europe in France as a law student. Since 1992, Dr. Orlin has been working in the Balkans and elsewhere, where he served as a counsel for an international human rights group in Romania that oversaw the first free elections in that former communist country.
In addition Professor Orlin has served as a consultant for UNESCO, USIA,the State Department, etc. He has also served as a Fulbright Scholar for the Institute of Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.