Human rights expert Michael Becker joins Trinity School of Law
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Michael Becker
Michael A. Becker has joined Trinity College Dublin School of Law as an assistant professor of international human rights law.
Mr Becker has a broad background in public international law and human rights. His research interests includes international courts and tribunals, fact-finding bodies and commissions of inquiry, the law of the sea, and the relationship between international law and global politics.
His academic background includes a law degree from Yale Law School and a B.A. in Political Science and French from Amherst College. He is completing his PhD dissertation at the University of Cambridge as a WM Tapp scholar at Gonville and Caius College.
Prior to entering academia, Mr Becker was in private practice at the law firms Allen & Overy LLP in London and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP in New York City. He was also a judicial law clerk to US federal judge Sidney H. Stein.
He is a qualified New York attorney and remains admitted to practice. From 2010 to 2014, he served as an associate legal officer at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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