J.D., New York University School of Law, 2002
B.A., University of Chicago, 1997
Claudia Flores is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she directs the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and is faculty co-director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. She is also a Special Expert of the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, appointed by the Human Rights Council in 2023, where she currently serves as chair. In addition, she co-hosts Entitled, a podcast that explores global debates on human rights.
Her teaching, scholarship, and practice center on international human rights, constitutional reform, global inequality, and state accountability.
Before joining Yale, Flores directed the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School and previously worked in the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, at UN Women and UNDP, and in private civil rights practice.
She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her J.D. from New York University, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, and she clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
