Martin Flaherty
Leitner Family Professor
Co-Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice

CONTACT DETAILS
Phone: +1.212.636.6857
Cell: +1.917.880.7918
Email: mflaherty17@yahoo.com

CAREER
Education

COLUMBIA, J.D., 1988
YALE, M. Phil., 1987; M.A., with distinction, 1982
PRINCETON, B.A., summa cum laude, 1981
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, ITT/Fulbright Fellow, 1981-82



Activities
  • Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University (2004-present)
  • Chair, Committee on International Human Rights, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2003-06)
  • Visiting Fellow, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University (2003-04)
  • Visiting Professor, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing (Spring 1999)
  • Visiting Professor, National Judges College, Beijing (Spring 1999)
  • Consultant, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (1992-present)
  • Law Clerk to Hon. Byron R. White, Supreme Court of the United States (October Term 1990)
  • Law Clerk to Hon. John J. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1988-89)
  • Book Review & Articles Editor, Columbia Law Review (1987-88)



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PUBLICATIONS

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

  • More Real Than Apparent: Separation of Powers, The Rule of Law, and Comparative Executive "Creativity" in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW 2005-2006 (2006) [exchange with John Yoo].
  • The Most Dangerous Branch Abroad, 30 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 1 (2006) [exchange with Michael Ramsey].
  • Executive Power Essentialism and Foreign Affairs, 102 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 545 (2004) [with Curtis A. Bradley]
  • The Future and Past of U.S. Foreign Relations Law, 67 LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS (2004)
  • Aim Globally: The Place of Foreign Affairs Law in the U.S. Constitutional Canon 17 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 205 (2000)
  • History Right?: Historical Scholarship, Original Understanding, and Treaties as "Supreme Law of the Land," 99 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 2095 (1999)
  • The Most Dangerous Branch, 105 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1725 (1996)

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

  • Judicial Globalization in the Service of Self-Government, 20 ETHICS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 477 (2006).
  • Separation of Powers in a Global Context, in JUDGES, TRANSITION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS (John Morrison et al. eds., 2006)
  • Rawls, Rights, and Reality, in UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND BULWARKS OF LOCALISM (Christopher Eisgruber and Andras Sajo eds., 2005)
  • Exporting Despair: U.S. Aid Policy and the Right to Health in Kenya, 28 FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 1 (2005) [with Tracy Higgins and Mehlika Hoodbhoy].
  • Unjust Order: Malaysia's Internal Security Act (2003) [with Nicole Fritz]
  • Presumed Guilty? Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Mexico (Crowley Program & Centrode Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez, 2001)
  • One Country, Two Legal Systems?: A Report on the Rule of Law in Hong Kong Two Years After the Resumption of Chinese Sovereignty, 55 RECORD OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 325 (2000) [Co-author and editor]
  • Obstacles to Reform: Exceptional Courts, Police Impunity and Persecution of Rights Defenders in Turkey (1999) [Co-author and editor]
  • Justice on Trial: State Security Courts, Police Impunity, and the Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders in Turkey, 22 FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 2129 (1999) [Co-author and editor]
  • At the Crossroads: Human Rights and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1996) [Co-author and editor]


Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Fordham University School of Law
33 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

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Telephone: 212.636.6862
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