Brian Gran is a sociologist and lawyer on the faculty of the Sociology Department, Law School, and Mandel School of Applied of Social Sciences of Case Western Reserve University. His scholarship concentrates on human rights, including children's rights, law, and social policy. Gran was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University. As a Fulbright Scholar, he taught a course on children's rights to the Law School of Reykjavik University and conducted research on Iceland's Ombudsman for Children. Gran was a member of the Council and Steering Committee of the Science and Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was one of fourteen members of the U.S. National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a group who advises on national policy around law, technology, and science. He has served as Chair of the Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association and President of the Thematic Group on Global Justice and Human Rights of the International Sociological Association. Gran has advised the United Nations on the human right to science. His scholarship has received support of various institutions, including the British Academy, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and right now from the U.S. Department of Defense for a project on obstacles to and facilitators of recovery from spinal cord injury and from the U.S. National Science Foundation for a project on derogation of human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gran has published books as well as articles in various sociology, law, and policy journals. Forthcoming with Polity Press is the book, The Sociology of Children's Rights.