Associate Professor of Law. Professor Stephens earned her B.A. magna cum laude at Harvard University in 1976 and her J.D. at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1980. She clerked for two years for Chief Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court, then spent six years in Nicaragua investigating issues of law reform and human rights. As a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York from 1990 to 1996, Professor Stephens litigated international human rights cases in U.S. federal court, representing victims of genocide, rape, and other torture, and of war crimes. In 1995, she earned the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, in recognition of her work on these human rights cases. She earned a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant in 1995 and coauthored a book on this developing line of litigation, International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts (Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1996). She also taught an international human rights clinic at Yale Law School from 1994 to 1996. Professor Stephens continues to litigate pro bono international human rights cases. Her publications include "Translating Filártiga: A Comparative and International Law Analysis of Domestic Remedies for International Human Rights Violations" (Yale Journal of International Law), "The Amorality of Profit: Transnational Corporations and Human Rights" (Berkeley Journal of International Law), "Federalism and Foreign Affairs: Congress` Power to ´Define and Punish...Offenses Against the Law of Nations`" (William and Mary Law Review), and "The Law of Our Land: Customary International Law as Federal Law after Erie" (Fordham Law Review).