Ian M. Kysel

Ian Matthew Kysel is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He founded and directs the Transnational Disputes Clinic and is a co-director of the Migration and Human Rights Program. He is also a founder and director of the Migrant Rights Initiative and is a founder of the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights, the Secretariat of which is jointly housed at Cornell and The New School, where Kysel currently holds an appointment as a Non-Resident Fellow at The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. He previously held appointments at the University of Oxford and Georgetown Law. Before joining Cornell’s faculty, he was a staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California. He has also served as the Aryeh Neier Fellow at both the National ACLU and Human Rights Watch and practiced international arbitration and public international law at a global law firm. Kysel has published in multiple law and peer-reviewed academic journals and written or edited multiple human rights reports. His opinion articles and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Hill, Just Security, The New Humanitarian andEJIL:Talk!. Kysel holds an LLM in Advocacy, with distinction, a JD, Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, and a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies from Georgetown Law, where he was a Global Law Scholar. He holds a BA, with high honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Swarthmore College. You can follow him on Twitter at @ianmkysel. He is also on LinkedIn.