Martin Geer | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Martin Geer
		Externship Director


		Phone: 702 895-2093 Email: martin.geer@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., magna cum laude, University of Michigan, 1974 J.D., Wayne State University, 1977 L.L.M., Columbia University, 1991

	Professor Geer earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan, magna cum laude, his J.D. degree in 1977 from Wayne State University, where he served as Associate Editor of the Wayne Law Review, and an L.L.M. from Columbia University. He came to the Boyd School of Law from Syracuse University College of Law, where he was Visiting Professor of Law and Director of the Public Interest Law Clinic. Earlier, he was the Director of Clinical Education at the University of Baltimore School of Law and a clinical law professor at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. He has extensive experience as a litigator in significant cases the areas of civil rights and criminal law in private practice and as a Reginald Heber Smith Law Fellow. He has published numerous law review articles in the areas of civil rights and international human rights. In 2004 he taught as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Pune, India and was appointed Senior Fulbright Specialist in 2007 and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center. He has engaged in judicial and clinical law teacher training in Russia, India, Brazil, and Argentina. He is an ABA-CEELI Legal Education Consultant, Tbilisi State University, Federation of Georgia, Summer 2006. Professor Geer directs the Boyd School of Law externship program, teaches Civil Rights Litigation and Criminal Procedure, and coaches the Jessup International Moot Court Team. Professor Geer will be a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico in Summer 2008.

	Areas of Expertise: Civil Rights Clinical Education Criminal Procedure

	Selected Publications: LAW REVIEW ARTICLES Justice Education and the Evaluation Process: Crossing Borders, Vol 28, Journal of Law & Policy, Washington Univ. School of Law (forthcoming 2008)(with Profs. Margaret Martin Barry, and Ved Kumari). SSRN Protection of Female Prisoners: Dissolving Standards of Decency, 2, Margins 175 (2003) (University of Maryland School of Law’s Interdisciplinary Publication on Race, Religion, Gender, and Class). Human Rights and Wrongs in Our Own Backyard: Incorporating International Human Rights Protections under Domestic Civil Rights Law, 13 Harv. Human Rights J. 71 (2000), reprinted in Breaking Down The Walls: Communities in the New Millennium (Jean Borger, ed., 1999) and Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminal Legislation (K.D. Gaur & Balraj Chauhan eds., 2d ed. 2000). Hein Lexis Westlaw Foreigners in Their Own Land – Cultural Land and Transnational Corporations: Emergent International Rights and Wrongs, 38, Va. J. Int’l L.331 (1998). BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS The Pedagogy of Effective Externship Programs, Dr. N.R. Menon Ed. Clinical Legal Education, 2nd Ed., Oxford Press, Delhi expected 2009. Legal Education Must Create a Commitment to Democratic Values, Lawyer’s Collective, January 2005. Criminal Law, Criminology And Criminal Legislation,Chapters, Execution of Minors: An International Human Rights Violation; Human Rights and Wrongs in Our Own Backyard (Ed. K.D. Gaur 2nd ed., Deep & Deep Pub. New Delhi 2003). Law School Externships: Building Another Bridge over Troubled Waters, Nevada Lawyer, May 2002. Critique, Review of the State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,, Cuba Chapter (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights). --> More Publications (pdf)

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