Naomi Roht-Arriaza

Bio

Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza grew up in New York and Latin America, including stints in Chile, Guatemala and Costa Rica. She earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley, a M.A. from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy (formerly the Graduate School of Public Policy), and a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Professor Roht-Arriaza has worked as an immigration paralegal, an organizer, and a teacher for a nonprofit focused on corporate accountability. After graduating from law school, she clerked for Judge James Browning of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. During 1991 to 1992, Professor Roht-Arriaza was the first Riesenfeld Fellow in International Law and Organizations at UC Berkeley School of Law.

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. She is a coauthor on The International Legal System: Cases and Materials (6th Ed.) with Mary Ellen O’Connell and Dick Scott (Foundation Press 2010). She continues to write on accountability, both state and corporate, for human rights violations as well as on other human rights, international criminal law and global environmental issues. 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.

Education

• University of California, Boalt Hall
  J.D., Law

• University of California, Berkeley
  M.P.P., Public Policy

• University of California, Berkeley
  B.A., Undergraduate Studies

Selected Scholarship

• Principle 1. General Obligations of States to Take Effective Action to Combat Impunity
  The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary 2018

• Guatemala: Lessons for Transitional Justice
  Research Handbook on Transitional Justice (Edward Elgar Pub.) 2017

• After Amnesties are Gone: Latin American National Courts and the New Contours of the Fight Against Impunity
  Human Rights Quarterly 2015

• Making the State Do Justice: Transnational Prosecutions and International Support for Criminal Investigations in Post-Armed Conflict Guatemala
  Chicago Journal of International Law 2008

• Reparations Decisions and Dilemmas
  Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 2004

• The Pinochet Precedent and Universal Jurisdiction
  New England Law Review 2001

• Truth as Justice Investigatory Commissions in Latin America
  Law & Social Inquiry 1995

• Of Seeds and Shamans: The Appropriation of the Scientific and Technical Knowledge of Indigenous and Local Communities
  Michigan Journal of International Law 1996