Human Rights Workshop: Paul Hoffman, “International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts”

Lunch Provided / RSVP Required. Email the Schell Center to request background readings a week prior to talk.

Paul L. Hoffman is director of the Defending Democracy Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law. He is also a partner at Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, LLP, where his practice focuses on constitutional and civil rights litigation. He previously served as legal director of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California from 1984 to 1994, overseeing a docket of civil liberties and civil rights cases. He has argued numerous landmark cases, including before the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Alvarez-Machain and Sosa v Alvarez-Machain, and has litigated groundbreaking international human rights cases such as Doe v. Unocal and Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. Hoffman has taught at Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, USC Law School, and in the International Human Rights Clinic at Berkeley and Harvard Law Schools, among others, and was the chair of Amnesty International's International Executive Committee from 2002-2004. Paul holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an M.S. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. in International Relations from the City College of the City University of New York.