Claudia M. Flores

Claudia Flores is a clinical professor of law at Yale Law School, where she directs the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, is faculty co-director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, and co-chairs the Global Constitutionalism Seminar. Her teaching, scholarship, and practice center on international human rights, gender equality and women's rights, constitutional reform, and state accountability. In the Lowenstein Clinic, Flores and her students represent clients and partner with communities on pressing human rights challenges, working to build accountability, challenge structural injustice, and advance rights across borders. Flores also co-hosts "Entitled," a podcast exploring global debates on human rights. Prior to joining Yale, Flores was a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she directed the Global Human Rights Clinic.

In 2023, Flores was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as Special Expert of the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, one of the Council's special procedures. She currently serves as the Working Group's chair.

Before joining academia, Flores’ practice spanned both domestic litigation and international advocacy. As a partner in the civil rights practice of Hughes, Socol, Piers, Resnick and Dym, she led collective and class action labor and employment litigation on behalf of agricultural workers in temporary foreign labor programs. She also served as a UN legal adviser to the governments of East Timor and Zimbabwe on legislative and constitutional reform and managed a USAID-funded program to combat trafficking in persons in Indonesia. Earlier in her career, as a staff attorney in the ACLU’s Women's Rights Project, she led litigation and advocacy to advance the workplace rights of low-wage immigrant women workers.

Flores received her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and her J.D. from New York University, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar. Following graduation, she was a Skadden Fellow in the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at the CUNY School of Law. She clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Professor Claudia Flores, sitting at a table, speaks into a microphone

July 1, 2026

AI Shows Promise and Peril for Women, Professor Claudia Flores Tells UN

A report from a United Nations working group chaired by Professor Claudia Flores warns that AI poses risks to the human rights of women and girls.

June 12, 2026

El País / Planeta Futuro

Claudia Flores, President of the U.N. Working Group on Discrimination

Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, and Faculty Co-Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights Claudia Flores was interviewed about her work as chair of the U.N. Working Group on Discrimination. This article is in Spanish.