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Jonathan Todres

Jonathan Todres is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law. He researches and writes on a range of children's rights issues. Professor Todres' research focuses primarily on vulnerable populations and on trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children. His research interests also include domestic interpretations of international human rights law, the interrelationship among rights, and economic and social rights issues. As a member of the core faculty of the Center for Law, Health & Society, Professor Todres teaches Human Rights and Children, Public Health Law, International and Comparative Health Law, and Torts.

Professor Todres serves as a regular advisor to non-governmental organizations working on legislative and policy initiatives to combat trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children, including as Child Rights Advisor to ECPAT-USA. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Previously, Professor Todres served as Acting Assistant Professor at New York University School of Law and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He also has been a Visiting Professor (Human Rights) at Vytautas Magnus University School of Law in Lithuania. Professor Todres also practiced law with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and London and clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Professor Todres has held several leadership posts within the ABA Section of International Law, including Chair of the Section's International Health Law Committee and Vice-Chair of its International Human Rights Committee. Professor Todres received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his B.A. (with high honors in International Development) from Clark University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to attending law school, he worked for a number of years in international health and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand.

Professor Todres is the co-editor of U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Treaty Provisions and Implications of U.S. Ratification (Brill Academic Publishers 2006) and a number of articles on children's rights and health law issues