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
Office Hours Fall 2007
Tuesdays, 4 - 5:30p.m., or by appointment
Education
- J.D., Yale Law School, 1992
- M.St., Lincoln College, Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), 1989
- A.B. with honors, Brown University, 1987 (Junior Phi Beta Kappa)
Media Contact:
- Media Relations, 212-854-2650.
Detailed Biography
Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights and Co-Director, Human Rights Institute (http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/human_rights), Columbia Law School.
Law Clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Supreme Court of the United States, 1993-1994; and to Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 1992-1993. Skadden Fellow, Migrant Farmworker Justice Project of Florida Legal Services, 1994-1996. Formerly Marrs McLean Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law (2001-2007); Assistant Professor (1997-2001); Faculty Director, Transnational Worker Rights Clinic (2004-2007) and recipient of the 2000 Excellence in Teaching Award. Professor Cleveland has previously taught at Oxford University, Harvard Law School and Michigan Law School.
Co-author of Henkin, et al., Human Rights (2nd ed., forthcoming 2008). Author of numerous book chapters and law review articles, including:
Foreign Authority, American Exceptionalism, and the Dred Scott Case (Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 2006)
Our International Constitution (Yale J. Int’l L. 2006)
Powers Inherent in Sovereignty: Indians, Aliens, Territories, and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of Plenary Power over Foreign Relations (Texas L. Rev. 2002)
Human Rights Sanctions and International Trade: A Theory of Compatibility (J. Int'l Econ. L 2002)
Norm Internalization and U.S. Economic Sanctions, Yale J. Int’l L. (Winter 2001)
Global Labor Rights and the Alien Tort Claims Act, 76 TEXAS L. REV. 1533 (1998).
Author or co-author of numerous amicus briefs, particularly regarding the legal rights of foreign nationals, and served as an expert on the Afghanistan Transitional Commercial Law Project Working Group drafting a labor code for post-Taliban Afghanistan (2003), and on the Erlenborn Commission, reviewing the provision of legal services to aliens in the United States (1999). Member, Board of Editors, Journal of International Economic Law, and legal advisory committees of several human rights organizations, including the Center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco, and the International Labor Rights Fund and the Farmworker Justice Fund, in Washington, D.C.
