Sarah Cleveland

Sarah Hull Cleveland was born on September 4, 1965 and is an American judge, lawyer, law professor and former State Department official who serves as a judge on the International Court of Justice and holds the Louis Henkin Professorship of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School, currently on leave of absence. She is an expert in public international law, international and comparative human rights, international humanitarian law, national security law, the constitutional law of United States foreign relations, and federal civil procedure. She previously served as Counselor on International Law in the United States State Department, an independent expert on the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Co-Coordinating Reporter of the American Law Institutes project on the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, the United States independent member on the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, and a member of the Media Freedom Coalitions independent High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.