Jim Kelly serves as the Director (of counsel) of International Affairs for the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. In his capacity as Director of International Affairs, Jim is responsible for the development and management of the international affairs programming of the Federalist Society, including the areas of democracy, human rights, business and human rights, rule of law initiatives, and global governance monitoring. Jim is the Founder of the Federalist Society Global Governance Watch project and is the Founder and Director of the Federalist Society European Judicial Network. From 2005 to 2008, Jim represented the Federalist Society on the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO and served as Chairman of its Social and Human Sciences Committee. He has served as an official U.S. delegate or legal advisor at five international human rights conferences. Jim is a regular participant in judicial conferences in Central and Eastern Europe. He is President of Solidarity Center for Law and Justice, P.C., a public interest religious and educational liberty law firm, which files amicus curiae briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and state and federal appellate courts. Jim has served on the Georgia Board of Juvenile Justice and the Georgia Judicial Nominating Commission. In 2005, he authored Christianity, Democracy, and the American Ideal, a collection of the writings of the French-Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain. He earned his Bachelor and Law degrees from the University of Georgia. Jim also earned a Master of Taxation degree from Georgia State University, a Master of Non-Profit Management degree from Regis University in Denver, and a Master of International Relations degree from Salve Regina University in Newport. Jim is married to Lisa Mathison Kelly and has two married daughters.
Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Context
Michigan Student Chapter
Room 473625 S State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Panel I: The Muslim World
Silenced: Are Global Trends to Ban Religious Defamation, Religious Insult, and Islamophobia a New Challenge to First Amendment Freedoms?
Cannon House Office Building27 Independence Ave SE
Washington, DC 20003
Dictating Norms: Who Decides What's Right for the World?
The Inauguration of Global Governance Watch
The American Enterprise Institute Wohlstetter Conference Center1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Corporate Social Responsibility or UN Corporate Governance?
Global Governance Watch
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
French Lawyers Object to Lockdown
In a letter recently published in a leading Paris newspaper and the London-based Spectator, 200 French lawyers...
Constitutional Justice in Europe: Chairman Shevchuk
Stanislav Shevchuk, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, and a member of the Federalist...
Multinational Businesses and the Matrix of Human Rights Governance Networks
Engage Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2011
For decades, human rights activists have successfully petitioned state and national governments in developed countries...
Panel I: The Muslim World
Silenced: Are Global Trends to Ban Religious Defamation, Religious Insult, and Islamophobia a New Challenge to First Amendment Freedoms?
The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the deadly 2006 Danish cartoon riots brought worldwide...
Panel I: The Muslim World
Silenced: Are Global Trends to Ban Religious Defamation, Religious Insult, and Islamophobia a New Challenge to First Amendment Freedoms?
The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the deadly 2006 Danish cartoon riots brought worldwide...