Martin S. Flaherty is the Co-Director of the Crowley Program in International Human Rights at Fordham Law School in New York, as well as the Leitner Family Professor of Law. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, where he was previously a Fellow at the University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs. Flaherty has also recently chaired the Committee on International Human Rights for the New York City Bar Association, and is now a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations. Previously, he served as a law clerk for Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge John Gibbons of the Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

Martin S. Flaherty’s publications focus upon constitutional law, foreign affairs, and international human rights and appear in such journals as the Columbia Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, and the University of Chicago Law Review. With the Crowley Program and for Human Rights First, he has also helped lead fact-finding missions to Turkey, Hong Kong, Mexico, Malaysia, Kenya, and Northern Ireland. Recent publications include: “Executive Power Essentialism and Foreign Affairs” [with Curtis Bradley], Michigan Law Review, and “The Future and Past of U.S. Foreign Affairs Law,” Law & Contemporary Problems.

Flaherty holds a B.A. from Princeton, an M.A. and M.Phil. from Yale (in History) and a J.D. from the Columbia Law School.