M. S. Flaherty
Leitner Family Professor, Co-Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Curriculum Vitae
212-636-6857, Fax: 212-636-6775
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Office: 7-128
Faculty Assistant: Larry Bridgett, [email protected]
Areas of Expertise: Constitutional Law, Foreign Relations and the Law, Human Rights, International Law, Legal History
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Professor Flaherty is Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights Law and Founding Co-Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice. He is also a longtime Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where he was Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs and also currently teaches at Columbia Law School and Barnard College.
Professor Flaherty earlier served as a law clerk for Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge John Gibbons of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. For more on his background see https://www.leitnercenter.org/staff/1/
Education
B.A. Princeton
M.A. Yale
J.D. Columbia Law School -
Selected Publications
Executive Power Essentialism and Foreign Affairs. Michigan Law Review, Vol. 102 (2004)
Unjust Order: Malaysia's Internal Security Act. Nicole Fritz and Martin Flaherty, UNJUST ORDER: MALAYSIA'S INTERNAL SECURITY ACT, The Joseph R. Crowley Program in International Human Rights (2003)
The Future and Past of U.S. Foreign Relations Law. Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 67 (2004)
Judicial Globalization in the Service of Self-Government. Princeton Law and Public Affairs Paper No. 04-017
Historians and the New Originalism: Contextualism, Historicism, and Constitutional Meaning. Fordham Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 3 (2015)
Restoring Separation of Powers In Foreign Affairs. 2 St. John's Jrnl of Int'l & Comparative L. 1 (2012)
Are We to Be a Nation?: Federal Power vs. 'States? Rights' in Foreign Affairs University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 70, P. 1277, (1999)
History Right?: Historical Scholarship, Original Understanding, and Treaties as 'Supreme Law of the Land'. Columbia Law Review, Vol. 99, P. 2095 (1999)
Hong Kong Fifteen Years after the Handover: One Country, Which Direction?. Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 51, No. 275 (2013)
The Constitution Follows the Drone: Targeted Killings, Legal Constraints, And Judicial Safeguards. Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2014)
“But for Wuhan?”: Do Law Schools Operating in Authoritarian Regimes Have Human Rights Obligations?. 5 Drexel L. Rev. 297 (2013)