Liz Sepper

Liz Sepper is the 2010-2012 Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow.  Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between health, human rights, and culture.  She has published several articles, including Confronting the "Sacred and Unchangeable": The Obligation to Modify Cultural Patterns under the Women's Discrimination Treaty, 30 U. Pa. J. of Int'l L. 585 (2008).  Previously, she held fellowships at Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and clerked for the Honorable Marjorie Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Liz received a LL.M. in international legal studies and a J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from New York University School of Law.  At NYU, she was a Dean’s Scholar, an Institute for International Law and Justice Scholar, and a Notes Editor for the NYU Law Review.  She received a B.A. in History summa cum laude with distinction from Boston University.