Monica Iyer

Monica Iyer is an assistant professor of law teaching International Law and International Human Rights Law.

Professor Iyer's scholarship focuses on the intersection of climate change, the environment and human rights, particularly focusing on migration and racial and gender justice.

Before joining the College of Law, Professor Iyer was a senior lecturing fellow in the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke University School of Law. Before joining academia, she worked for the United Nations, government, and civil society organizations on human rights issues, including the environment and climate change; migration; women’s rights and gender equality; human rights and international development; and racial justice. These roles included working as a Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and as an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General. After law school Professor Iyer clerked for Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis in the Southern District of New York. She received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law, a master's degree in international cooperation and development from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago.