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Lama Abu-Odeh
Prior to joining the Law Center, Professor Abu-Odeh was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford Law School, where she taught Criminal Law, Comparative Family Law, Islamic Law, and a seminar entitled "Nations, Races, and Religion." Professor Abu-Odeh was a writing instructor in the Graduate Program and Coordinator of Special Academic Projects, Islamic Legal Studies Program, at Harvard Law School. She worked at the World Bank as legal counsel in the Middle East/North Africa Division, Legal Department. As an elections observer for the United Nations, South Africa, Professor Abu-Odeh participated in voter education, party monitoring, and election supervision during the period leading to the first democratic elections in South Africa. Professor Abu-Odeh has written articles on Feminism and Islam, Binationalism in Palestine and Islamic Law pedagody in US academia.
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Dean Aleinikoff has published numerous articles in the areas of immigration, refugee, and constitutional law, and his most recent scholarship includes Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship, Citizenship Policies for An Age of Migration (with Douglas Klusmeyer), Immigration: Process and Policy (with David Martin and Hiroshi Motomura), and Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader (with John Garvey). Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, he served as the Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs and as General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice's Immigration and Naturalization Service and was a member of the University of Michigan law faculty.
M. Gregg Bloche
Dr. Bloche is Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2005-06 to study the roles of medicine in the public sphere, and as part of this project, he has been examining the psychological design behind post-9/11 U.S. interrogation strategies. Bloche also teaches and writes on U.S. and international health law and policy. His recent work has appeared in numerous academic and professional publications, including the California and Stanford Law Reviews, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. He has also done commentaries for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and other media outlets. Bloche received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research for 1997-2001 for his work on the legal and regulatory governance of managed care, and he has served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the board of directors of Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Bloche received his M.D. and J.D. from Yale University and his B.A. from Columbia University.
Rosa Brooks
Professor Brooks joined Georgetown University Law Center in 2006. Previously, she was Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. She joined the Virginia faculty in 2001 after a fellowship year at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. From 2000-01 she also served as a consultant to the Open Society Institute and to Human Rights Watch. Until August 2000, Brooks worked at the U.S. Department of State, where she was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. At the State Department, she participated in the U.S. negotiating team for the International Criminal Court and worked extensively in trouble spots such as Kosovo and Sierra Leone. Before joining the State Department, Brooks taught at Yale Law School, where she served as Acting Director of Yale's Schell Center for International Human Rights and faculty supervisor of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic. Since entering academia, Brooks has continued her active involvement with various human rights organizations and foundations. She served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA in 2002-03, and she also served on the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division. Brooks also writes a weekly opinion column for the Los Angeles Times, in which she often focuses on international law and human rights issues.
Barry Carter
Professor Carter has an extensive background in foreign policy, international business and trade, and international law. He has worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on Dr. Kissinger's National Security Council staff. Subsequently, Professor Carter was a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; senior counsel on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities; and the Executive Director of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). He went on leave from Georgetown to be the acting Under Secretary, and then Deputy Under Secretary, for Export Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce during 1993-96. He also served then as U.S. vice chair to the Secretary of Defense on bilateral defense conversion committees with Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus . Professor Carter's recent publications include his widely-used casebook on International Law (with co-authors), and the companion International Law: Selected Documents, 2005-2006 Edition. His first book, International Economic Sanctions: Improving the Haphazard U.S. Legal Regime, won the annual award from the ASIL in 1989 for the outstanding new book on international law subjects.
David Cole
Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Cole litigated numerous leading First Amendment and human rights cases as a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he still serves as a volunteer staff attorney litigating human rights cases. He has received numerous awards for his civil rights and civil liberties work, including the Human Rights Award from the Society of American Law Teachers and the William J. Brennan Award from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of the Freedom of Expression. The American Bar Association’s Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section named him a Human Rights Hero. Professor Cole has published in a variety of areas, including human rights, criminal justice, constitutional law, and law and literature. He is the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, a commentator on National Public Radio, and the author of three award-winning books: Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism; Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties for National Security (with James X. Dempsey); and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System.
Robert Drinan
Father Drinan pursues careers as a priest, lawyer, politician, and activist. He has received twenty-two honorary degrees, including Georgetown, Loyola (Chicago), Villanova, Syracuse, and Santa Clara. He has served as a visiting professor at four American universities and as the Dean of the Boston College Law School. During the ten years between his Deanship at Boston College and joining the Law Center faculty in 1981, he served in the United States Congress as a Representative from Massachusetts, where he was a member of various committees and the chair of the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the House Judiciary Committee. As a Congressman, his travels included official Congressional delegations to Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, and Japan. He has also served on private delegations to the Netherlands, South Africa, Sudan, Israel, and the Soviet Union, and privately sponsored human rights missions to Chile, the Philippines, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentina, and Vietnam. He is a regular contributor to several law reviews and journals of policy and opinion, and the author of Can God and Caesar Co-Exist? Balancing Religious Freedom & International Law (Yale Press, 2004); The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights (Yale University Press, 2001); The Fractured Dream (Crossroad, 1991); Stories From the American Soul (Loyola U. Press, 1990); Cry of the Oppressed: The History and Hope of the Human Rights Revolution; God and Caesar on the Potomac: A Pilgrimage of Conscience; Beyond the Nuclear Freeze; Honor the Promise: America's Commitment to Israel; Vietnam and Armageddon; Democracy, Dissent and Disorder; and Religion, the Courts and Public Policy. Father Drinan serves on numerous committees devoted to the furtherance of human rights. He has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates and is a past-chair of the ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the International League for Human Rights, the Lawyer's Committee for International Human Rights, the Council for a Livable World Educational Fund, Americans for Democratic Action, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He is one of the founders of the Lawyer's Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control and the National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry.
James Feinerman
Professor Feinerman joined the Law Center faculty as a visiting professor for the 1985-86 academic year. Immediately after law school he studied in the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, he joined the New York firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell as a corporate associate. During 1982-83, Professor Feinerman was Fulbright Lecturer on Law at Peking University. In 1986, he was a Fulbright researcher in Japan. In 1989, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship to study China's practice of international law. During the 1992-93 academic year, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 1993-95, on leave from the Law Center, Professor Feinerman was the Director of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China. Professor Feinerman served as Editor-in-Chief of the ABA's China Law Reporter. In recent years, Professor Feinerman was the co-editor of The Limits of the Rule of Law in China, and co-author of China After the WTO:What You Need to Know Now.
Lawrence Gostin
Lawrence Gostin is an internationally recognized scholar in law and public health. He is Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) and Professor at the Law Center, as well as Professor at Johns Hopkins and Oxford Universities. In the wake of September 11th, 2001, he led the drafting of the Emergency Health Powers Act to combat bioterrorism and other emerging health threats. Professor Gostin was a member of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform. In the United Kingdom, Professor Gostin was the Chief Executive of the National Council for Civil Liberties, Legal Director of the National Association of Mental Health, and faculty member of Oxford University. During that period he argued numerous cases before the European Court of Human Rights, some of which still stand as landmark cases. Professor Gostin received the Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Award from the National Consumer Council (U.K.) for the person “who has most influenced Parliament and government to act for the welfare of society.” He also received the Key to Tohoko University (Japan) for distinguished contributions to human rights in mental health. In 2006, Dean Gostin received the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal conferred by National Academy of Sciences for distinguished service to further the Academy’s mission for science and health. In addition to serving as Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Georgetown University, he serves as the Director of the Center for Public Health Law & Human Rights at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His latest books include Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press) and The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different But Equal (Oxford University Press).
John Jackson
Professor Jackson is an expert in international trade and serves as the Director of Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law. He has been a law professor at the University of Michigan, a visiting faculty member at the University of Delhi and the University of Brussels, a Consultant to the Ford Foundation, a Research Scholar at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. He has served as General Counsel for the Office of the President's Special Representative for Trade in the U.S. Executive Office of the President in Washington, D.C. Over the years, he has also advised the U.S. and various foreign governments and international organizations; and has served as a member of the board of editors for various journals, including the American Journal of International Law. He is the editor in chief and a founding editor of the Journal of International Economic Law. Among his more recent books are: The Jurisprudence of the GATT and the WTO: Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations;The World Trade Organization: Constitution and Jurisprudence; Legal Problems of International Economic Relations; The World Trading System; and Implementing the Uruguay Round. During several years ending in 2005, the Institute for International Economic Law, under Prof. Jackson’s direction, collaborated with the American Society of International Law and the World Trade Institute (in Bern, Switzerland) on a research project exploring the linkage of human rights to international trade rules. Two books have now been published with papers and discussions from this project. One book is published by the University of Michigan press; the other by Oxford University Press.
Vicki Jackson
Professor Jackson served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Murray Gurfein (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit), and Judge Morris Lasker (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York). She served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice (2000-01); as a member of the D.C. Bar Board of Governors (1999-2002); as a co-chair of the Special Committee on Gender of the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias (1992-95), and a member of the D.C. Circuit Advisory Committee on Procedures (1992-98). She is co-author with Professor Mark Tushnet of a coursebook on Comparative Constitutional Law, and serves as an Articles Editor for the International Journal of Constitutional Law. She is also a Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. Her articles on federalism, sovereign immunity (and related questions of government accountability), the use of foreign and international law in domestic constitutional adjudication of federalism and human rights issues, and gender equality have appeared in numerous scholarly journals.
Neal Katyal
Professor Katyal served as law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Katyal was lead counsel in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, a challenge to the legality of the Guantanamo military trials, a system last used in World War II. A frequent writer on national security law, the American Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, and the role of the President and Congress post 9-11, Katyal has forged a worldwide coalition of support for his challenge to the Guantanamo Bay policy, including 304 members of the European and British Parliaments and several former Generals and Admirals of the United States Armed Forces. During 1998-99, Professor Katyal served as National Security Adviser to the Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice. He was commissioned by President Clinton in 1999 to co-author a report on ways the legal profession can enhance its pro bono activities and diversify the Bar; served as co-counsel to Vice President Al Gore in the United States Supreme Court case of Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board in 2000; and was Visiting Professor at Yale Law School in 2001-02 and Harvard Law School in 2002. His primary academic interests are Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Education Law; and his work has appeared in numerous law reviews.
David Koplow
Professor Koplow first served the U.S. government as an attorney-advisor, and later as special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. From 1997-99, while on leave from the Law Center, he served as Deputy General Counsel (International Affairs) at the U.S. Department of Defense. He has also served as secretary of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security and as a member of the Policy Board of Legal Counsel for the Elderly. He has been at Georgetown Law since 1981. Professor Koplow teaches International Law I, and a seminar in the area of national security, arms control and non-proliferation. He also directs a clinic, the Center for Applied Legal Studies, in which students provide pro bono representation to refugees who are seeking political asylum in the United States because of fear of persecution in their homelands due to race, religion, poliitcs, etc. He has written in the areas of international law, U.S. foreign affairs law, and arms control, especially regarding verification of compliance with arms control treaties.
David Luban
David Luban joined Georgetown’s faculty in 1997. Before that, he was Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland, where he was also a member of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. A former chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Professional Responsibility, he is the recipient of Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellowships, the New York State Bar’s Levy Professional Ethics Award, and the American Bar Foundation’s Keck Award for scholarship on legal ethics and professional responsibility. He has taught at the Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools, and the philosophy departments of Dartmouth College, Kent State University, the University of Melbourne, and Yale. Luban has published numerous books and papers on topics in legal ethics, legal theory, and political philosophy. His current research centers on legal and moral responsibility within organizational settings – a topic that straddles his ongoing interests in legal ethics, human rights, just war theory, and international criminal law.
John Mikhail
Professor Mikhail’s research interests include criminal law, torts, constitutional law, jurisprudence, and law and cognitive science. He teaches a seminar on Law, Cognitive Science, and Human Rights, and he has written widely on the legal and philosophical foundations of human rights. Professor Mikhail received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell University and his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was Senior Article Editor of the Stanford Law Review and Senior Submissions Editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law. Before coming to Georgetown, he worked for Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett and served as a law clerk to Judge Rosemary Barkett of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He also was a Lecturer and Research Affiliate in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at M.I.T. and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Currently, he is writing a book on the concept of a Universal Moral Grammar and its connection to human rights, which will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Julie O’Sullivan
Professor O'Sullivan joined the faculty in November 1994 from her position in the Office of Independent Counsel (Little Rock, Arkansas), where she worked on the "Whitewater" investigation. She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York. In addition, Professor O'Sullivan was a litigation associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell and served as clerk to the Honorable Levin H. Campbell of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Recently, she has brought her expertise in criminal procedure to the international context in her classes on International Criminal Law.
Susan Deller Ross
Professor Ross teaches International and Comparative Law on the Rights of Women and the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic. Her recent writing includes a forthcoming casebook, Women’s Human Rights: International and Comparative Law, and an article, Polygyny as a Violation of Women's Right to Equality in Marriage. Professor Ross has led Clinic fact-finding missions to Tanzania, Ghana, and Uganda, and lectured on women’s international human rights in Mongolia, India, Lithuania, and Guatemala. While serving as the first director of the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, Professor Ross developed its Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa program. In her early career, Professor Ross focused on domestic gender issues, co-authoring one of the first casebooks on the subject, Sex Discrimination and the Law (1975), and its second edition in 1996. She also wrote The Rights of Women and many articles on gender issues. Professor Ross worked on test-case litigation at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project (1975-1978), the EEOC (1970-1972), and the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (1980-1983), She was co-director of the Campaign To End Discrimination Against Pregnant Workers, which successfully lobbied for the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, and a leader in developing, drafting, and lobbying for the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Professor Ross also served as co-chair of the Special Committee on Gender for the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias.
Phillip Schrag
Professor Philip G. Schrag is co-director (with Prof. David Koplow) of the Center for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), one of the Law Center’s human rights clinics. Professor Schrag’s supervision of human rights advocacy has also informed his public service and his scholarship. In 1996, he and others successfully fought efforts by leading members of Congress to bar asylum to anyone who did not apply for it within 30 days of arriving in the United States. The story is told in one of his twelve books, A Well-Founded Fear: The Congressional Battle to Save Political Asylum in America (2000). A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Schrag was Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and then the Consumer Advocate of the City of New York before beginning his teaching career at Columbia Law School. During the Carter administration, he was the Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He directs Georgetown’s Public Interest Law Scholars Program, serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Government Affairs and Student Financial Aid of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education, and is an advisor to the Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators.
Jane Stromseth
Professor Stromseth is Director of the Human Rights Institute. She teaches and writes in the fields of international law and constitutional law and is the co-author of Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (2006). Professor Stromseth has written widely on international law and the use of force, humanitarian intervention, accountability for human rights atrocities, and constitutional war powers. She edited and contributed to Accountability for Atrocities: National and International Responses (2003), and she is the author of a book on the NATO alliance entitled The Origins of Flexible Response: The Debate Over NATO Strategy in the 1960s (1988). Professor Stromseth has served in government as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council and as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1991, Professor Stromseth served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and to Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. She received her doctorate in International Relations at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and her law degree at Yale, where she was a student director of the Lowenstein Human Rights Project.
Robert Stumberg
Professor Stumberg has written about about the impact of trade agreements on domestic law and human rights, with particular attention to procurement (including preferences for bidders who comply with international standards for labor and human rights), services (particularly electricity, water and other essential services), and foreign investor rights. He directs one of Georgetown's clinical programs, the Harrison Institute for Public Law, which provides services to policy makers regarding trade policy, economic development, and public health. His past positions include Policy Director of the Center for Policy Alternatives in Washington, D.C. He serves on the Board of Directors of Washington Consumer Checkbook Magazine, and he previously served as chair of the Section on Legislation of the AALS and several housing and planning organizations in the Washington area.
Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Professor Vázquez served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then practiced law with Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., before joining the law school faculty as a visiting professor of law in 1990, and then as an associate professor in 1991. From 2000 to 2003, he was the United States member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, the organ of the Organization of American States responsible for juridical matters and for promoting the progressive development and codification of international law in the Americas. While in private practice, Professor Vàzquez was the recipient of the International Human Rights Law Group’s Pro Bono Service Award. He has written amicus curiae briefs in suits seeking to vindicate the rights of Haitian and Cuban refugees and challenging the validity of military commissions. He has written about the domestic enforcement of human rights treaties, the link between human rights and trade, and the human rights obligations of private corporations.
Wendy W. Williams
Professor Williams, a member of the Georgetown Faculty since 1976 and Associate Dean of the Law Center from 1989 to 1993, writes and teaches on issues of gender and law, especially issues of work and family, is co-author of a casebook on gender and law, and teaches a seminar on the International Human Rights of Women. Before joining the Law Center faculty, she was a law clerk for Justice Raymond Peters of the California Supreme Court, a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow in Poverty Law, and co-founder of Equal Rights Advocates, a public interest law firm in San Francisco that litigates gender issues. Professor Williams served on the National Research Council Panel on Employer Policies and Working Families and the Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee to the Yale Bush Center Project on Infant Care Leaves; she also served on the board of the NOW Legal Defense Fund and as Chair of the Advisory Committee of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. She helped draft the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. She is a past-president of the Society of American Law Teachers and a member of the American Law Institute. A founder of the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program in 1983, she continues to serve as a member of WLPPF’s board of directors and to supervise African graduate students in WLPPF’s Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa program.
Visiting Faculty
Martin S. Lederman
Professor Lederman was an Attorney Advisor in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel from 1994 to 2002, where he concentrated on questions involving freedom of speech, the Religion Clauses, congressional power and federalism, equal protection, separation of powers, copyright, and food and drug law. Before that, he was an attorney at Bredhoff & Kaiser, where his practice consisted principally of federal litigation, including appeals, on behalf of labor unions, employees and pension funds, with particular emphasis on constitutional law, labor law, civil rights, RICO and employment law. Most recently, he has been in private practice specializing in constitutional and appellate litigation. He regularly contributes to the weblogs "SCOTUSblog" and "Balkinization," including on matters relating to Executive power, detention, interrogation and torture. He served as law clerk to then-Chief Judge Jack B. Weinstein, on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and to Judge Frank M. Coffin, on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Noah Novogrodsky
Noah Novogrodsky is the Director of the International Human Rights Program at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto. Noah has a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College (Political Science and English Literature), an M.Phil. Degree in International Relations from Cambridge University, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale, Noah clerked for Judge Nancy Gertner of the United States District Court (Mass.) and then was awarded the Robert Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights, spending a year in Capetown, South Africa as a Human Rights Advocate. As part of his fellowship, Noah documented refugee flows and Ethiopian expulsions during the Eritrea-Ethiopia war and was an observer in the 1999 South African elections. Between 2000 and 2002, Noah practiced as a litigator at a California law firm. In addition to his practice in international law, intellectual property law, and in appellate litigation, Noah continues to work closely with various international human rights organizations by providing pro bono legal assistance in refugee cases and serving as an expert witness in U.S. Immigration court cases. In September 2003, Noah founded Canada's first international human rights clinic at the Faculty. The clinic has actively litigated an aboriginal title case in Belize, an educational equality case in Singapore, and a minority rights claim before the European Court of Human Rights.
Andrew I. Schoenholtz
Professor Schoenholtz directs the Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies at the Law Center, and is the Deputy Director of Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration. He teaches courses on Refugee Law and Policy, Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies, and Immigration Law and Policy. Prior to teaching at the Law Center, Professor Schoenholtz served as Deputy Director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and practiced immigration, asylum, and international law with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington & Burling. Professor Schoenholtz has conducted fact-finding missions in Haiti, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany, Croatia, Bosnia, Malawi, and Zambia to study root causes of forced migration, refugee protection, long-term solutions to mass migration emergencies, and humanitarian relief operations. He researches and writes regularly on refugee law and policy. His publications include: Refugee Protection in the United States Post-September 11th; The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration (chapter on “Improving Legal Frameworks”); and Aiding and Abetting Persecutors: The Seizure and Return of Haitian Refugees in Violation of the U.N. Refugee Convention and Protocol. Professor Schoenholtz holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Brown University.
Adjunct Faculty (2005-2006)
Michael Bochenek
Deputy Director, Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
David S. Bernstein
Senior Public Sector Management Specialist, World Bank
Gilda Brancato
Attorney Adviser International, Department of State, Office of the Legal Advisor
Deborah Kay Burand
Director of Capital Markets, Foundation for International Community Assistance
Christina M. Cerna
Principal Human Rights Specialist, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States
Richard A. Frank
President, Population Services International
Mark J. Kappelhoff
Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, U.S. Department of Justice
Alisa B. Klein
Attorney, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, U.S. Department of Justice
Laura J. Lederer
Senior Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary for Global Affairs, State Department
Mohamed Y. Mattar
Executive Director, The Protection Project
Susan Martin
Executive Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Elisa C. Massimino
Washington Director, Human Rights First
Colman McCarthy
Founder and Director, Center for Teaching Peace
Viji Rangaswami
Associate, Trade, Equity, and Development Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Richard C. Visek
Attorney, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
