Susan Farbstein

Susan H. Farbstein is an international human rights lawyer and Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she directs the International Human Rights Clinic. Her legal, advocacy, and investigative work addresses war crimes and crimes against humanity, unlawful killings and disappearances, corporate accountability, and socio-economic rights. She has engaged on a range of accountability and transitional justice issues in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, South Sudan, The Gambia, Myanmar, Thailand, Mexico, and Argentina. She has also litigated landmark cases against the former Bolivian president for extrajudicial killings, against Shell for complicity in the torture and killing of Nigerian activists, and against multinational corporations for aiding and abetting abuses committed by South Africa’s apartheid state. She holds a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.