Louis Henkin Founder, Human Rights Institute
University Professor Emeritus; Special Service Professor
B.A., Yeshiva, 1937; LL.B. Harvard, 1940; L.H.D., Yeshiva, 1963; LL.D. Columbia 1995; J.D. (hon.), Brooklyn, 1997. Book review editor, Harvard Law Review. Before joining the Columbia University faculty he served as law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and Justice Felix Frankfurter, as well as in the U.S. Department of State. He has taught Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and International Law.
Expert in European Labor Law. Harvard, University, graduate study in economics and history, 1978-79. London School of Economics, M.Sc., 1978. Harvard College, B.A., 1977.
George Bermann Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law; Director, European Legal Studies
B.A., Yale, 1967; J.D., Yale, 1971. Courses and current research include: Comparative law and European law, International trade contracts, WTO dispute resolution, Government and public official liability, European union law, Transnational litigation and arbitration, and Administrative law.
Sarah Cleveland Louis Henkin Professor in Human and Constitutional Rights Faculty Co-Director, Human Rights Institute
A.B., Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa), 1987; M.St., Lincoln College , Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), 1989; J.D., Yale, 1992. Areas of expertise: International Human Rights, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution, International Trade and Labor Rights, International Law in U.S. Courts, Federal Civil Procedure.
Lori Damrosch Henry L. Moses Professor of International Law and Organization
B.A., Yale, 1973; J.D., 1976. Principal areas of interest are public international law and the U.S. law of foreign relations.
Michael W. Doyle Harold Brown Prof. of Int'l and Public Affairs, of Law, and of Political Science
B.A, Harvard, 1970; Ph.D. 1977. Courses/current research: United Nations; International peace-building; Civil wars; International relations theory; International security; International organizations.
A.B., 1994, Harvard, J.D., 1998; Ph.D., (History), Yale, 2003. Areas of expertise: American legal history, family law, the history of marriage and its alternatives, feminist legal theory.
B.A., California (Berkeley), 1960; J.D., Chicago, 1964; M.C.L., 1965. Course Subjects/Current Research: Criminal law; Comparative law; Torts; Jurisprudence; International criminal law; The jurisprudence of war; Biblical jurisprudence.
Katherine Franke Professor of Law
Director, Gender & Sexuality Law Program
Principal areas of teaching are feminist and critical race theory; law and culture; civil rights law; critical legal thought. Principal areas of research are U.S. racial history; feminist theory; queer theory; sexual and gender rights in global contexts.
Alejandro Garro Adjunct Professor of Law; Senior Research Scholar, Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law
J.D. (abogado), National University of La Plata (Argentina), 1975; LL.M., Louisiana State, 1979; J.S.D., Columbia, 1990. Garro's areas of teaching focus on comparative law and international commercial law (international sales, secured transactions, international arbitration and litigation. He has taught courses on Latin American law and the inter-American system for the protection of human rights.
B.A., Swarthmore, 1958; B. Phil., Oxford, 1960; LL.B., Columbia, 1963. Main interests are in constitutional law and jurisprudence, with special emphasis on church and state, freedom of speech, civil disobedience, and criminal responsibility.
B.A., Columbia, 1945; LL.B., 1948; LL.D., Central State College (Ohio), 1965; Morgan State College, 1965; Lincoln (Pennsylvania), 1977; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 1983; Columbia, 1984; De Paul, 1994. Assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1949-61; director-counsel, 1961-84. Argued before U.S. Supreme Court in forty cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, which declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional; argued other cases in the Supreme Court and other courts involving civil rights in all its aspects.
Debra Livingston Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law; Judge for the Second Circuit
B.A., Princeton, 1980; J.D., Harvard, 1984. Judge Livingston was appointed United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit on May 17, 2007 and entered on duty June 1, 2007. Prior to her appointment she was the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she also served as Vice Dean from 2005 to 2006. Judge Livingston joined the Columbia faculty in 1994.
Peter Rosenblum Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor in Human Rights
Faculty Co-Director, Human Rights Institute
A.B., Columbia, 1982; J.D., Northwestern, 1986; LL.M., Columbia, 1992; D.E.A. with distinction, University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), 1992. Associate in international trade, Baker & McKenzie, 1985-88. Adjunct professor, Fordham University Department of Social Sciences, 1989. Staff attorney, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1989-91.
Carol Sanger Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law
B.A., Wellesley, 1970; J.D., University of Michigan, 1976. Joined Columbia faculty in 1996. Teaching areas include contracts, all areas of family law, and courses focusing on law and gender.
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1976; J.D., Columbia Law School, 1979. Theodore M. Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) from 2004-08, is one of the nation’s leading voices in civil rights. Since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1979, Mr. Shaw's career has spanned from working in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington D.C., to academia to his current position at the NAACP.
Kendall Thomas Nash Professor of Law, Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Culture
Nash Professor of Law and co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University in the City of New York. Joined the faculty in 1984. Teaching and research interests include U.S. and comparative constitutional law, human rights, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, Critical Race Theory and Law and Sexuality.
B.A., University of Michigan; J.D., Columbia Law School 2003. Caroline Bettinger-López’s research, activism, and teaching focus on international human rights law and advocacy, including the implementation of human rights norms at the domestic level. Her main regional focus is the United States and Latin America, and her principal areas of interest include violence against women, gender and race discrimination, and immigrants’ rights.
Practiced in a legal services agency serving immigrants and refugees for eight years prior to initiating the clinical program in immigration and asylum law at Boalt Hall, School of Law -- University of California, Berkeley in 1984.
J.D. (1980 ) and L.L.M. (1978), University of Wisconsin Law School. Douglas B.L. Endreson is a partner in Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, LLP, which specializes in the representation of Indian tribes and Alaskan Native entities.
B.A., Brandeis University; J.D., M.S. in Criminal Justice, The American University. Vincent A. Eng is the Deputy Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC).
Risa Kaufman Lecturer-In-Law Executive Director, Human Rights Institute
B.A., Tulane University; J.D., NYU Law School. Risa is a Lecturer in the Human Rights Clinic, as well as Executive Director of HRI. Her primary focus at the Institute is on fostering international human rights norms and strategies in the United States.
J.D., Columbia Law School. Nancy Northup is the President of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women's reproductive freedom.
B.A. with distinction and honors in History, University of Michigan (1972); J.D.. University of California, Berkeley Law School Boalt Hall (1975). Michael Posner, President of Human Rights First, has been at the forefront of the international human rights movement for nearly 30 years.
Edwin Rekosh Lecturer-In-Law
Executive Director Public Interest Law Institute (PILI)
Edwin Rekosh is the Executive Director of the Public Interest Law Institute (PILI). For more than a decade, Mr. Rekosh has been a leader in the effort to advance human rights principles and promote the development of public interest law throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Republics.
As the International Legal Director of Human Rights First, Gabor Rona advises Human Rights First programs on questions of international law and coordinates international human rights litigation.
A.B. with honors, Lafayette, 1969; J.D., Columbia, 1972. Mr. Ruthizer is a partner and head of the Business Immigration Group at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, and he is a former national President and General Counsel of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
LL.B. (Hons) London, 1965; LL.M (Columbia) 1966. Has published on Law and Development, Human Rights and Good Governance. Taught African Law, International Law, International Trade, Jurisprudence and Criminal Law and Procedure.
B. Proc., University of Zululand, 1975; LL.B., University of Natal, Durban, 1985; LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1986. Sandile Ngcobo is a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
