Naomi-Roht Arriaza

Naomi Roht-Arriaza is Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.  Professor Roht-Arriaza is the author of The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (2005) and Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (1995), and coeditor of Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice (2006). She is a coauthor of The International Legal System: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press 2010, 2015) and of numerous articles on international human rights and international criminal law. She earned a BA from UC Berkeley, a MA from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, and a JD from the UC Berkeley School of Law. After graduating from law school, she clerked for Judge James Browning of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.  In 2011 she was a Democracy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and in 2012 she was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Botswana.  She is the president of the Board of the Due Process of Law Foundation and a legal advisor to the Center for Justice and Accountability.  Her work was featured in the film Granito.