Dr. Martin Flaherty

Biography

Martin S. Flaherty is the Charles Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at Princeton University, where he is associated with the School of Public and International Affairs. He is also 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. Flaherty serves as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and Barnard College. His extensive teaching experiences include positions at 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. He previously clerked for Justice Byron R. White on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge John Gibbons on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Flaherty holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an M.A. and M.Phil. from Yale University, where he graduated with distinction in history. His scholarship focuses on international human rights, foreign affairs, and the history of constitutional law, with publications in prestigious journals including the Columbia Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. He has led human rights missions in various countries and is currently the President of the American Association of International Commission of Jurists.

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