Human rights scholar Hope R. Metcalf will join the faculty in January 2025.

Metcalf comes to the University of Iowa after more than 15 years at Yale Law School. From 2014-2024 she served as executive director for the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights Law; she also co-taught in the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. The Schell Center enables students, faculty, visiting scholars, and the broader institution to conduct research and engage in pressing human rights issues and discussions.

Prior to Metcalf’s work at the Schell Center, she was director of Yale Law’s Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law. She began her Yale Law career as a fellow there in 2007–2008. Before joining academia, she was an associate attorney at the firms of Debevoise & Plimpton and Wiggin and Dana.