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 Troy E. Elder
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
(305) 348-7215
eldert@fiu.edu
B.A., University of Michigan
J.D., Yale Law School
Troy E. Elder graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. degree from the Yale Law School, where he served as Senior Editor and then Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. While in law school, he was as a member of the Jerome Frank Legal Services Organization, representing homeless, HIV-positive, and other clients in individual benefits and housing matters. After law school Professor Elder worked for five years as a litigation attorney with two of the country's leading law firms, first at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (New York and Paris offices) and later at Shearman & Sterling (Paris office). While practicing in Europe, Professor Elder became one of the first US-trained litigators to be admitted as an Avocat à la Cour in Paris, where he specialized in treaty-based disputes involving foreign sovereigns. Since 2000, he has been an attorney with Legal Services of Greater Miami, in the Employment and Economic Security Unit; and Catholic Charities Legal Services, practicing poverty immigration law with an emphasis on political asylum, refugee and detainee rights, and immigrant benefits issues. Immediately before coming to FIU, Professor Elder was a clinical fellow at the University of Miami School of Law, where he directed an interdisciplinary, community-based poverty health and immigration clinic. He is fluent in Spanish and French, and conversational in Creole. He directs the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic and teaches Immigration Law. During the 2007-08 academic year, Professor Elder has been named Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the American University, Washington College of Law, in Washington, D.C.
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