Elizabeth Keyes
Office: Room 347A
Phone: 202-274-4455
E-mail: ekeyes@wcl.american.edu
Elizabeth Keyes is a Practitioner-in-Residence with the International Human Rights Law Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a supervising attorney at WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence), where she provided legal services to immigrant survivors of domestic violence; she assisted dozens of immigrant domestic violence survivors with their protection order, divorce, custody and child support cases, as well as working the many immigration remedies available to these clients. Before WEAVE, Liz spent three years as a Skadden fellow and staff attorney at CASA of Maryland, working on the civil and immigration aspects of labor exploitation cases, litigating in state, federal and immigration courts. She focused particularly on trafficked domestic workers, and their exploitation by diplomats. Before law school, she spent several years working on African policy and development issues with Catholic Relief Services, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program, throughout Africa. She received her law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and a B.A. in African Development Studies from Carleton College.
Currently Teaching
Degrees & Universities
- B.A., Carleton College (magna cum laude)
- M.P.A., Princeton University
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center (magna cum laude)