Claudia Flores is Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the
International Human Rights Clinic. Before her appointment to the Law Faculty,
Flores was a partner at Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., a boutique
law firm in Chicago. There, Flores specialized in civil rights and constitutional
matters, with a focus on labor violations against low-wage and temporary
workers and qui tam litigation. Prior to that, Flores served as legal advisor for
the United Nations Development Program and UN Women in East Timor
and Zimbabwe. Previously, she managed a USAID-funded program to combat
human trafficking in Indonesia. From 2003 to 2008, Flores was a staff attorney
at the American Civil Liberties Union in the Women's Rights Project. Flores
was a recipient of the Skadden Arps Fellowship of the Skadden Foundation and
law clerk to US Federal Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson. She was also a
Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar and Sinsheimer Service Fellow. Flores
earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and received her B.A.
in philosophy from the University of Chicago.