Belinda Cooper is an Adjunct Assistant Professor who teaches human rights and women’s rights at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and co-teaches the global field intensive on war crimes prosecutions in The Hague and former Yugoslavia. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights.
Professor Cooper’s experience has included working with East German dissidents in Berlin, Germany before the fall of communism. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this month, the Global Affairs Review sat down with Professor Cooper to hear about her experiences during that historically pivotal time.