Laurel E. Fletcher

Laurel E. Fletcher is Clinical Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, School of Law. Fletcher is active in the areas of human rights, humanitarian law, international criminal justice, and transitional justice. Fletcher has advocated on behalf of victims before international courts and tribunals, and has issued numerous human rights reports on topics ranging from sexual violence in armed conflict to human rights violations of tipped workers in the US restaurant industry.  She also has conducted several empirical human rights studies, including of the impact of detention on former detainees who were held in U.S. custody in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (2011-2015). Fletcher was selected as a Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor to the Faculty of Law in the University of Cambridge for 2019.

Her recent publications include A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? Transitional Justice and the Effacement of State Accountability for International Crimes, 39 Fordham Int’l L.J. 447 (2016); Refracted Justice: The Imagined Victim and the International Criminal Court, in “Contested Justice: the Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions” 302 (C.M. De Vos, Sara Kendall & Carsten Stahn eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015); and Writing Transitional Justice: An Empirical Evaluation of Transitional Justice Scholarship in Academic Journals, 7 J. Hum. Rts. Prac. 177 (2015) (co-author: Harvey M. Weinstein). In 2009, she and Eric Stover published “The Guantanamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices” (UC Press).

Education

B.A., Brandeis University (1986)
J.D., Harvard University (1990)

Laurel E Fletcher is teaching the following courses in Fall 2024:

• 262.53 sec. 001 - Technology and Human Rights
• 262.54 sec. 001 - Human Rights Futures: New Directions in Law and Practice

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Spring 2025	283I sec. 001	Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic Seminar
	295.5O sec. 001	Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic
Spring 2023	262.51 sec. 001	Human Rights Practice Workshop	View Teaching Evaluation
	283.1H sec. 001	Advanced Int'l Human Rights Clinic Seminar
	283H sec. 001	Int'l Human Rights Law Clinic Seminar	View Teaching Evaluation
	295.5H sec. 001	International Human Rights Law Clinic	View Teaching Evaluation
	295.5I sec. 001	Advanced International Human Rights Clinic	View Teaching Evaluation