IHRC Board of Advisors
Almudena Bernabeu
International Attorney & Director of Transitional Justice Program
Almudena Bernabeu is an international attorney licensed to practice law in Spain and joined CJA full time in 2002. Ms. Bernabeu works on US-based civil Alien Tort Statute litigation against human rights abusers and universal jurisdiction criminal human rights prosecutions before the Spanish National Court. Ms. Bernabeu is also Director of CJA’s Transitional Justice Program. She has worked on asylum and human rights cases for Amnesty International-Spain and researched and investigated cases before the European Court of Human Rights. She also serves as a board member at Equatorial Guinea Justice, a US based Human Rights organization. She is Vice-President of the Spanish Association for Human Rights (APDHE), and a member of the advisory board of the Peruvian Institute of Forensic Anthropology (EPAF), a forensic group providing evidence on human rights violations investigations and prosecutions. Ms. Bernabeu holds a n LLM in Law from the University of Valencia School of Law, where she specialized in Public International Law. In 2012, Ms. Bernabeu won the prestigious Katharine & George Alexander Law Prize.
Natalie Bridgeman Fields
Executive Director, Accountability Counsel
Natalie Bridgeman Fields is the Executive Director o f Accountability Counsel, an organization she founded in 2009 with an Echoing Green Fellowship for social entrepreneurship. Previously, she served as a consultant on accountability issues to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank. As a lawyer at a large firm and later through her own law office, she litigated corporate, human rights, and environmental cases in U.S. courts, including representation of victims in the first case in U.S. history to render a jury verdict on a crimes against humanity claim. In 2011, the Daily Journal named Natalie one of the Top 20 Lawyers in California Under 40, and in July 2012, she received a Genius Award from& Elle magazine. Natalie is a graduate of Cornell University, where she received a Udall Fellowship and the Michael Schwerner Activist Award. She received her law degree from UCLA School of Laws Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs.
Scott Maurer
Associate Clinical Professor in Consumer Law, Katharine and George Alexander Law Center, Santa Clara Law
Scott Maurer has worked as a clinician at the Katherine and George Alexander Community Law Center since 1996. He co-teaches a variety of clinical skills courses at the Law Center, where his students provide advice and legal representation to low-income residents on consumer protection matters. He also co-teaches substantive consumer protection courses on campus with his mentor, Santa Clara Law Professor Eric Wright.
Michelle Oberman
Professor of Law, Santa Clara Law
Professor Oberman is a nationally recognized scholar on the legal and ethical issues surrounding adolescence, pregnancy, and motherhood. She works at the intersection of health law and criminal law, focusing on domestic and international issues. Oberman is active in the academic community, lecturing on health law concerns to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from law school faculties to health care professionals to community-based interest groups.
Oberman received a Fulbright research grant to Chile for spring 2011. In addition to teaching in Valpariaso, she worked on issues pertaining to womens reproductive health and the law. Her recent book, When Mothers Kill (2008), won the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Professor Oberman joined the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty in 2004.
David Sloss
Professor of Law, Santa Clara Law
Professor Sloss is an internationally renowned scholar who has published two books and numerous law review articles addressing the application of international law in domestic courts. His scholarship in this area is informed by a decade of experience in the federal government, where he helped draft and negotiate several major international treaties. Professor Sloss serves frequently as a consultant for U.S. attorneys who seek advice on the domestic application of international law in U.S. courts.
Prior to joining the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty, Professor Sloss taught for nine years at Saint Louis University School of Law. Before Sloss started his teaching career, he worked as a litigation associate at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto and clerked for Senior Judge Joseph T. Sneed, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, San Francisco.
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