The United States’ nominee for election to the International Court of Justice, Professor Sarah H. Cleveland, paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Wendall Jones, The Bahamas Ambassador to the U.S., on Thursday, 30th March 2023, at the Embassy in Washington, D.C. The Professor has an impressive record, having advanced rights and obligations under international law through defending migrant farmworkers in the United States and refugees detained at Guantanamo, challenging the United States’ counterterrorism detention policies, and litigating before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Professor Cleveland holds the Louis Henkin Chair in Human and Constitutional Rights and has been Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Colombia University Law School in New York since 2007. She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard and Michigan Law Schools.
