Hope R. Metcalf

Lecturer in Law; Research Scholar in Law; and Executive Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Education

J.D., New York University School of Law, 2001

B.A., Yale University, 1996

Courses Taught
  • Human Rights Workshop
  • Liman Public Interest Practicum
  • Lowenstein Clinic
  • Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic
Hope Metcalf

Hope Metcalf is the Executive Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights Law and co-teaches the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She also co-founded the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic, which ran from 2017-2021 in response to threats to democracy within the United States; her work in that Clinic focused especially on the targeting of Muslim communities. Earlier roles at the Law School include as director of the Liman Center for Public Interest Law (2010 to 2014) and as project director of the National Litigation Project of the Lowenstein Clinic, founded in 2002 to respond to rights violations arising out of U.S. counterterrorism policy. Metcalf’s lawyering, teaching and research focus on the rights of people in various forms of detention and the ways in which human rights lawyers can best support movement-led social change. Metcalf is a graduate of Yale College and New York University School of Law.