559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610

jmartinez@law.stanford.edu
(650 650) 725 725-2749 2749 (voice)
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Research Interests
Civil procedure and litigation; comparative law; constitutional law; human rights; international law

Jenny Martinez is an Associate Professor Law and Justin M. Roach, Jr. Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Law School. Her scholarship focuses on the ramifications of the increasing number of international tribunals operating in a globalized environment, but without any supervening sovereign authority to which they are all bound. As an experienced litigator, she argued the 2004 case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla before the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to clarify the constitutional protections available to post-9/11 "enemy combatants" who are U.S. citizens. She also served as a consultant for both Human Rights First and the International Center for Transitional Justice.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2003, she was a senior research fellow at Yale University and an attorney at Jenner & Block. She clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was an associate legal officer for Judge Patricia Wald of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Martinez received a B.A. from Yale University in 1993 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1997.