Dr. Martin Flaherty

Biography

Martin S. Flaherty is a longtime Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a Fellow at the Program in Law and Public Affairs. He is the Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights Law and the Founding Co-Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. Professor Flaherty teaches at Columbia Law School and Barnard College, having previously taught at the China University of Political Science and Law and the National Judges College in Beijing, as well as at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul and Queen’s University in Belfast. Flaherty served as a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge John Gibbons of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an M.A. and M.Phil. with distinction from Yale University in history, along with a B.A. summa cum laude from Princeton. His participation in human rights missions spans several countries, including Northern Ireland, Turkey, Hong Kong, Mexico, Malaysia, Kenya, Romania, and China. He is the President of the American Association of International Commission of Jurists and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Flaherty's scholarly works focus on international human rights, foreign affairs, and constitutional law history, with articles published in journals such as the Columbia Law Review and Yale Law Journal. He is also a media commentator and the author of 'Restoring Global Judiciaries: The Supreme Court's Role in Foreign Affairs' (Princeton University Press, 2019).

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