WASHINGTON, D.C., March 31, 2023 — Professor Sarah H. Cleveland, the United States’ nominee for election to the International Court of Justice, paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Wendall Jones, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, on Thursday, March 30, 2023 at the Embassy in Washington D.C.
Professor Cleveland has an impressive record, having advanced rights and obligations under international law through defending migrant farmworkers in the United States and refugees detained at Guantanamo, challenging the United States’ counterterrorism detention policies and litigating before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
She holds the Louis Henkin Chair in Human and Constitutional Rights and is Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University Law School in New York, where she teaches and writes in the areas of human rights, international law, national security, and the constitutional law of U.S. foreign relations. She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard and Michigan Law Schools.
