Sarah Paoletti
Practice Professor and Director of Transnational Legal Clinic, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Sarah Paoletti founded and directs the Transnational Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 2003-2006, she was a Practitioner-in-Residence in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law American University. Her areas of expertise include international human rights, immigrant and migrant rights, asylum law, and labor and employment law. She has presented on the intersection of migration and international human rights before Committees of the United Nations and the Organization of American States among many others. Sarah served as staff attorney at Friends of Farmworkers, Inc., a statewide legal services program serving migrant workers in Pennsylvania, and currently serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the organization. From 1999 to 2000, she was a law clerk for the Hon. Judge Anthony J. Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit. She is a graduate of the Washington College of Law American University (summa cum laude) and Yale University.
