Margaux J. Hall

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Office: Jerome Greene Hall, Room 811/8
435 West 116th Street
New York NY 10027
Tel: (212) 854-0079
Email: Margaux.Hall@law.columbia.edu

Margaux J. Hall is the 2012-2014 Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow. 

Margaux's scholarship and professional practice to date have focused on health, international law, development, environmental law, and women's rights. Ms. Hall's research has explored how restrictive laws and health care financing schemes impede patient autonomy, privacy, and access to health services.  After graduating from law school, Margaux conducted health and governance research in South Africa as a Fulbright Fellow and in East Africa as a Harvard University Frederick Sheldon Fellow.  She then worked in private practice at WilmerHale LLP, where her practice focused on litigation and government and internal investigations.  Most recently, Margaux spent more than one year working with the Justice Reform Group of the World Bank's Legal Vice Presidency in Sierra Leone, where she collaborated closely with the government and explored the role of justice in advancing essential service delivery.  

Education:

  • Harvard Law School, J.D. cum laude, 2008
  • Stanford University, B.S. in Management Science & Engineering with Distinction, Honors in Civil Engineering, Phi Beta Kappa, 2003

Area of Legal Expertise:

  • Health Law
  • International Law
  • Law and Development
  • Environmental Law
  • Women's Rights

Recent Publications:

  • Climate Change Adaptation and Human Rights: An Equitable View, Climate Change: Legal Responses and Global Responsibility, Eds. OC Ruppel et al. (peer reviewed, forthcoming 2013)
  • Adaptation Apartheid: Climate Change Adaptation and Human Rights Law, 37 Yale J. Int'l L. 309 (2012) (with co-author)
  • Human Rights and Remedial Equilibration, 36 Brook. J. Int'l L. 453 (2011) (with co-author)
  • Using International Law to Promote Millennium Health Targets: A Role for the CEDAW Optional Protocol in Reducing Maternal Mortality, 28 Wis. Int'l L.J. 74 (2010)
  • Answering the Millennium Call for Maternal Health: The Need to Eliminate User Fees, 12 Yale Hum. Rts. & Dev. L.J. 62 (2009) (with co-authors)