Martin Geer

Professor Geer earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan, magna cum laude; his J.D. degree from Wayne State University, where he served as Associate Editor of the Wayne Law Review, and an L.L.M. from Columbia University. He came to the Boyd School of Law from Syracuse University College of Law, where he was Visiting Professor of Law and Director of the Public Interest Law Clinic. Earlier, he was the Director of Clinical Education at the University of Baltimore School of Law and a clinical law professor at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. He has extensive experience as a litigator in significant cases in the areas of civil rights and criminal law in private practice and as a Reginald Heber Smith Law Fellow. He has published numerous law review articles in the areas of civil rights and international human rights. In 2004 he taught as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Pune, India and was appointed Senior Fulbright Specialist in 2007. He is the Director of Boyd’s India International & Comparative Law Practicum which bringing U.S. and Indian law students and faculty together for an ABA approved intensive cross-cultural human rights experience in New Delhi. He has engaged in judicial and clinical law teacher training in Russia, India, Brazil, Argentina and Vietnam. He is currently a Senior U.N. Trainer in a new project developing clinical education in Vietnam. He was an ABA-CEELI Legal Education Consultant, Tbilisi State University, Federation of Georgia, Summer 2006. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center. Professor Geer directs the Boyd School of Law externship program, and teaches Civil Rights Litigation, Criminal Procedure and coaches the Jessup International Moot Court Team.