Susan Deller Ross, Professor of Law, Director and Founder of IWHR Clinic
J.D., New York University; B.A., Knox College

Susan Deller Ross is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Director and Founder of the IWHR Clinic. Before joining the Georgetown law faculty in 1983, she was Special Counsel for Sex Discrimination Litigation to the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Previously, she was Clinical Director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and an attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She has filed numerous amicus curiae briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court on women’s rights issues and has testified at a number of U.S. congressional hearings concerning sex discrimination. She was one of the attorneys who represented Anita Hill in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas congressional hearings. In addition to founding and teaching in the IWHR Clinic, Professor Ross has taught Domestic Relations Law and Advocacy and Employment Discrimination Law and Advocacy in Georgetown’s Clinical Programs. She has also taught International and Comparative Law on the Women’s Human Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Family Law, and Gender and the Law.

Professor Ross has published widely in the area of international women’s rights and speaks regularly to audiences around the world.

Her recent books include:

• Women’s Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook (2008).
• Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice and Theory (co-authored with Barbara Allen Babcock, Ann E. Freedman, Wendy Webster Williams, Rhonda Copelon, Deborah Rhode, and Nadine Taub) (New York: Little, Brown and Company 2d ed. 1996).

Her recent articles include:

• Fact-Finding as a Lawmaking Tool for Advancing Women’s Human Rights, 7 Geo. J. Gender & L. 331 (2006) (co-authored with Tamar Ezer).
• Polygyny as a Violation of Women’s Right to Equality in Marriage: An Historical, Comparative and International Overview, 24 Delhi L. Rev. 22 (2002).

Her recent presentations include:

• Implementation and Enforcement of International Women’s Human Rights Treaties
  University of Tana
  Antananarivo, Madagascar
• Implementation and Enforcement of International Women’s Human Rights Treaties
  Guatemala Judicial School
• Advancing Women’s Human Rights Through Legal Change: The Value of Gender Expertise
  Keynote address for Inaugural Program, Master’s Degree in Gender, Women’s Rights, and Access to Justice
  San Carlos University Law School
  Guatemala City, Guatemala
• Expert Consultation on Litigation: Using International Human Rights Treaties to Enforce Reproductive Rights
  Center for Reproductive Rights New York, NY
• Advancing Women’s Human Rights Through Equal Protection and Equality Guarantees in National, Regional, and International Human Rights Instruments
  Global Alliance for Justice Education Inaugural Conference
  Kerala, India
• Legal Mechanisms to Remedy Discrimination
  Conference on Institutional Mechanisms for the Protection of Human Rights at the Lithuanian Constitutional Court
• Legal Remedies Under U.S. Law for Sexual Harassment and Domestic Violence
  Police Academy
  Vilinus, Lithuania
• Foreign and International Experience in the Protection of Women’s Rights
  Keynote address to the Mongolian Women’s Rights Seminar
  Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Michelle Liu, Supervising Attorney & Teaching Fellow
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; B.B.A., George Washington University

Michelle Liu is the Clinical Teaching Fellow with the IWHR Clinic. She graduated from George Washington University in 2005 with a degree in business administration and worked as the Financial Controller for a design firm based in New York City. Following her passion for public service, she enlisted as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 2007 and worked to develop small businesses and to empower women and girls in Kenya. At Georgetown Law, she took courses in the fields of human rights and international law and was a student in the IWHR Clinic, where she drafted a women’s rights amendment to the Constitution of Tanzania. During her time in private practice at Linklaters LLP in London, she sought out pro bono opportunities to protect the rights of women around the world. In 2015, Michelle left her job as a corporate attorney to work on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in Brooklyn, NY. Following the 2016 election, Michelle returned to Georgetown Law to serve as the Assistant Director of Admissions and to recruit and advise the next wave of passionate and talented lawyers and advocates.

Anna Harty, Office Manager
B.A., Xavier University

Anna Harty is the office manager for both the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic and the Domestic Violence Clinic, where she manages the day-to-day operations of both. She graduated from Xavier University with a B.A. in Gender & Diversity Studies. As a Brueggeman Fellow at Xavier, Anna developed an independent study examining the role of gender in conflict resolution and traveled to Uganda to engage in related research. After graduating, Anna did a year of service through Jesuit Volunteer Corps and coordinated legal services for asylum seekers at YMCA International Services in Houston, TX. Her work for the clinics includes referral and docket monitoring for the Domestic Violence Clinic, planning the annual fact-finding trips for the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic, and providing financial and administrative support for both.