Melanie Partow - mpartow@helmerfriedman.com

Melanie Partow, a Senior Associate with Helmer • Friedman, LLP, divides her time between general litigation, civil rights, and employment litigation.

Prior to joining Helmer Friedman, LLP, Ms. Partow worked as an Associate for Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP, a plaintiff's civil rights and international human rights law firm in Venice, California. Ms. Partow has represented plaintiffs in actions involving workplace discrimination and litigated cases against state and federal agencies for civil rights violations, including police abuse and excessive force, inadequate medical care, and violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Ms. Partow has also focused on Alien Tort Claims Act litigation involving multinational corporate liability for complicity in human rights violations under international law. Before she began working as an attorney on civil and human rights issues in the United States, Ms. Partow served as a law clerk for the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, in the Hague, the Netherlands.

Ms. Partow is currently reading for her Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. She received her J.D from Southwestern University School of Law in 2004, where she was a Pacific Region Finalist in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. As an undrgraduate student, Ms. Partow attended the University of Oregon where she pursued a double major in political science and international studies. Ms. Partow also studied international relations with the World Learning School for International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. While in Geneva, she also reported on corporate codes of conduct as an intern for the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service, a sub-commission of the Conference on Trade and Development at the Palais des Nations.

Ms. Partow works to support the creation of a rule of law, which holds both corporations and individuals accountable for actions that violate the equal right of men and women to civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights. Ms. Partow teaches and speaks at universities, law schools, and to public audiences on a variety of issues including: the International Criminal Court; United States foreign policy and human rights; civil society and international organizations; public international law; and international human rights law. Ms. Partow is a founding member of the American Network of International Criminal Court Alumni (ANNICA). She also currently serves as an alumni adviser for Southwestern Law School's top-ranked Stetson international environmental law moot court team.





 

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