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Elizabeth Amory

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Elizabeth Amory is an attorney in the Human Rights and Refugee Law Division of Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Amory graduated from Rutgers University in 1997 with a B.A. in History and Communication, and earned her law degree from the University of Virginia in 2001. While a student at Virginia, she was a Ritter Scholar and served as editor-in-chief of the Virginia Journal of International Law.

In her current position, Amory focuses primarily on international protection matters, advising on assistance to and protection of refugees, internally displaced persons and stateless persons overseas, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and domestic implementation of United States’ international obligations not to return individuals to countries where they face persecution or torture.

She has served as a member of U.S. delegations to the United Nations General Assembly, the U.N. Human Rights Council, and the Executive Committee of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and has represented the U.S. before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Outside of her work for the Department of State, Amory is also a Professorial Lecturer in International Law at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where she teaches an introductory international law course and is a guest lecturer on refugee and asylum law.

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