Irwin stotzky biography wikipedia

Irwin P. He received his J. In , he was a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina. For over four decades, he has represented Haitian and other refugees on constitutional and human rights issues in many cases, including several cases in the United States Supreme Court. He has served as an adviser to the Alfonsin regime in Argentina on what steps to take, including human rights trials, against those who committed massive human rights abuses during the so-called "dirty war.

In this capacity, he organized and directed the investigations into the massive human rights violations committed in Haiti during the illegal military regime's reign, between and This led to the first conviction for human rights crimes in the year history of Haiti.

Irwin P. Stotzky, or simply Irwin Stotzky, is a law professor at the University of Miami.

From to , he served as the Chairman of an international Presidential Commission to help Haiti confront its drug problems. He has published numerous articles and books on democracy and human rights, criminal law and procedure, and the role of the judiciary in the transition to democracy. He is currently completing a book on a seminal constitutional immigration case which he litigated for over a decade and which helped protect and define equality in the immigration field.

He teaches in the areas of constitutional law and theory, criminal procedure, immigration law, and philosophy.