Noah Novogrodsky is the Director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and an adjunct professor. Noah, a native Torontonian, returned to make a home at the Faculty of Law after being in the United States, England and South Africa for the last 14 years. During that time, Noah obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College (Political Science and English Literature), an M.Phil. Degree in International Relations from Cambridge University, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

Noah enrolled in the J.D. Program at Yale Law School in order to work closely with Professor Harold Koh (former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor under President Bill Clinton) and the Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights. He remained true to this goal and immersed himself in international human rights issues right from the start. In his first two years of law school, Noah co-chaired the Cambodia Genocide Justice Project and then traveled to Cambodia to teach international law as part of an investigation into the crimes of the Khmer Rouge for each of those first two years. He was a member of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic from 1995-1997. Noah’s exceptional level of knowledge and experience was recognized when, in his final year of law school, he was asked to co-teach a seminar on the solicitation and reception of testimony to mass crimes in international and domestic courts with Professor Harlon Dalton. Noah’s commitment, dedication and contributions to international human rights law were further recognized in 1997 when he was awarded the C. LaRue Munson Prize for excellence in the investigation, preparation and presentation of civil, criminal or administrative law cases under a law school clinical program.

After graduating from Yale, Noah clerked for Judge Nancy Gertner of the United States District Court (Mass.) and then was awarded the Robert Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights, spending a year in Capetown, South Africa as a Human Rights Advocate. As part of his fellowship, Noah documented refugee flows and Ethiopian expulsions during the Eritrea-Ethiopia war and was an observer in the 1999 South African elections.

Between 2000 and 2002, Noah practiced as a litigator at a California law firm. In addition to his practice in international law, intellectual property law and in appellate litigation, Noah continues to work closely with various international human rights organizations by providing pro bono legal assistance in refugee cases and serving as an expert witness in U.S. Immigration court cases.

In September 2003, Noah founded Canada's first international human rights clinic at the Faculty. The clinic has actively litigated an aboriginal title case in Belize, an educational equality case in Singapore, and a minority rights claim before the European Court of Human Rights.