Global justice.. Harvard. He must be one of them intellectual fellas.. you know. He can express Marxist feeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings in his own words.
Source is wiki graffiti but maybe it's valid information.
Alston's reports to the UN relating to extrajudicial executions also deal with broad thematic issues that arise in many countries, such as witchcraft and vigilante killings, national-level commissions of inquiry dealing with unlawful killings, the problem of prisoners running prisons, the importance of witness protection programs, the problem of governmental reprisals against individuals or groups who have cooperated with a UN human rights inquiry, the need to regulate the use of lethal force by law enforcement officers, shoot-to-kill policies....
This last has been made possible by Congress refusing to "declare war" wherever we deploy the U.S. military. So our military is always and perennially engaged in "police actions", subject to all of the limitations domestic law enforcement encounters on a daily basis. We are doing this to ourselves.
Interesting bio. Actually he’s an Aussie, with a politician brother, who has gone international and currently is a law professor at NYU.
I see a parallel to Julian Assange, who is also an Aussie who has made global anti-Americanism his career choice.