Sarah Hull Cleveland is an American law professor and noted expert in international law and the constitutional law of US foreign relations, with particular interests in the status of international law in US domestic law, international and comparative human rights law, international humanitarian law, and national security.
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Sarah Cleveland is the current nominee to be the Legal Adviser of the Department of State in the Biden administration.
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Sarah Cleveland will be nominated to be a judge on the International Court of Justice.
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Sarah Cleveland was the Co-Coordinating Reporter of the American Law Institute's project on the Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, and the US Member on the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.
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From 2009 to 2011, Sarah Cleveland served as the Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State, where she supervised the office's legal work relating to the law of war, counterterrorism, and Afghanistan and Pakistan, and assisted with its international human rights and international justice work.
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Sarah Cleveland continues to serve as a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law.
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Sarah Cleveland is a former member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and a Council Member of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute.
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In March 2014, Sarah Cleveland was nominated by the US government to serve as an independent expert on the Human Rights Committee, the United Nations treaty body that monitors state implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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Sarah Cleveland has been involved in human rights litigation in the United States and before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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Sarah Cleveland serves on the board of directors of Human Rights First.
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Sarah Cleveland has written widely on issues of international law, human rights, and US foreign relations law.
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Sarah Cleveland served on the board of editors of the Journal of International Economic Law and of the International Review of the Red Cross, and still serves on board of editors of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.
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