Jenny S. Martinez

Jenny Martinez, JD

  • Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • Richard E. Lang Professor of Law
  • Dean of Stanford Law School

Room N303 Neukom Building
Stanford School of Law
Stanford, CA 94305-8610

(650) 723-4455 (voice)

Biography

Jenny S. Martinez is the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School and the law school’s 14th dean. Professor Martinez is a leading expert on international law and constitutional law, including comparative constitutional law. She is the author of The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2012) and numerous articles in leading academic journals. She teaches courses on constitutional law, civil procedure, international law, and international business transactions. She is a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a faculty affiliate of Stanford’s Center on International Security and Cooperation and Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

An experienced litigator, she has worked on numerous cases involving international law and constitutional law issues. She serves as a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law. She is also a member of the American Law Institute.

Before joining the Stanford faculty in 2003, Professor Martinez clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer (BA ’59) of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; she was also an associate legal officer for Judge Patricia Wald of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where she worked on trials involving genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

publications

Books
December 2011

The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law

Author(s)
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In The News

Jenny S. Martinez
News

Jenny S. Martinez appointed Stanford provost

An experienced academic leader and prominent legal scholar, Martinez will become the university’s chief academic officer and chief budgetary officer on Oct. 1.
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