# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-anaya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:25:06.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-anaya"
name: "James Anaya"
slug: "james-anaya"
description: "Stephen James Anaya is an American lawyer who served as the 16th Dean of the University of Colorado Boulder Law School. He was formerly the James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law and previously served for more than ten years on the faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law. In March\n2008, he was appointed by the United Nations as its Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, replacing Rodolfo Stavenhagen. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019."
tagline: "Human rights professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Anaya_in_Kuala-Lumpur_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           11.213644
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://unsr.jamesanaya.org"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump