Michelle Liu is the Deputy Director of HRI and an Adjunct Professor.

Professor Liu has taught international human rights law at Georgetown Law since 2018, when she became the Supervising Attorney & Teaching Fellow in the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic. She now teaches the Human Rights Advocacy in Action Practicum for upper-class J.D. and LL.M. students, as well as the Human Rights Associates Program for first-year J.D. students. Her teaching and legal work focuses on protecting human rights through strategic litigation, legislative reform, and public advocacy. She has led or supported human rights field investigations with students to the Bahamas, Botswana, Kenya, Iraq, Lesotho, Malawi, and Tanzania.

Professor Liu has authored several amicus briefs, law review articles, book chapters, and online publications on the subject of women’s and children’s human rights. She is also the co-author of Women’s Human Rights: An International and Comparative Law Casebook, which is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

After law school, Professor Liu was a corporate attorney at Linklaters, LLP in London, where she also supported several human rights pro bono matters—including on refugees and asylees, rule of law, and women’s reproductive rights in conflict areas. Before teaching at Georgetown Law, Professor Liu was a national political coordinator on Secretary Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya from 2007 to 2008.

Professor Liu has a J.D. and an LL.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown Law, and she was a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow from 2018 to 2019.