Laurence R. Helfer (born 1965) is an American lawyer.

Helfer graduated from Yale University before pursuing legal studies at the New York University School of Law. He also completed a master's in public administration from Princeton University. Helfer clerked for Dolores Sloviter and practiced law at Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinksy & Lieberman, a firm in New York. He has taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, the University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law School, Loyola Law School, Princeton University, and Vanderbilt University Law School. From 2009, Helfer has taught at Duke University School of Law as Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Law.[1][2]

In 2022, Helfer was elected to serve on the UN Human Rights Committee as the representative for the United States until 2026.[3]

Selected books

  • Helfer, Laurence R.; Austin, Graeme W. (2011). Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521884372.[4]
  • Helfer, Laurence R. (2013). Intellectual Property and Human Rights – Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law. Vol. 7. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781781953846.[5]
  • Alter, Karen J.; Helfer, Laurence R. (2017). Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199680788.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Laurence R. Helfer". Duke University. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. ↑ "Laurence R. Helfer". Duke University School of Law. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Laurence R. Helfer Elected to the UN Human Rights Committee". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  4. ↑ Andriotis, Georgios (2012). "Laurence R. Helfer & Graeme W. Austin, Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011". Quebec Journal of International Law. 25 (2): 195–198. doi:10.7202/1068629ar.
  5. ↑ Beiter, Klaus D. (November 2014). "Laurence R. Helfer (ed.), Intellectual Property and Human Rights – Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 7 Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2013. pp. 840. ISBN 978 1 78195 384 6. €245.00". International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. 45: 858–863. doi:10.1007/s40319-014-0254-3. S2CID 140886094.
  6. ↑ Chalmers, Damian (July 2020). "Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice. By Karen J. Alter and Laurence R. Helfer. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxiv, 308. Index". American Journal of International Law. 114 (3): 545–549. doi:10.1017/ajil.2020.28. S2CID 225605857.
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