Charlie Martel

Expertise:

Legal skills, legal writing, constitutional issues, human rights, civil rights, voting rights

Background:

Charlie Martel is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Lawyering Skills at UC Irvine School of Law. Charlie’s recent scholarship addresses constitutional issues, human rights, civil rights, and voting rights. Earlier in his career he wrote on the law of armed conflict and humanitarian response. In addition to academic writing, Charlie has written essays on law and policy for Slate, the International Committee for the Red Cross, Lawfare, Just Security, Balls and Strikes and other publications. His most recent scholarly article, which was featured in the New York Times, addresses the right to vote for president under the Constitution. He has presented at international and U.S. conferences on his academic work and rights advocacy.

Charlie served as investigative counsel with the United States Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, where he led an investigation on the response to Hurricane Katrina and served on the investigative team for a domestic extremism/counter-terror investigation. He has volunteered to represent immigrants and refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. and internationally, and his essay on his asylum work in Greece was published by the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He has participated in voting rights teams since 2001, and led the Obama campaign’s Virginia legal headquarters in 2012.

, Lawyering Skills II

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