About me
Emily Ray is a Clinical Fellow in the Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic (HREC) at Harvard Law School. Her specialty areas within human rights law include strategic litigation, corporate accountability, and access to justice for atrocity crimes. She is passionate about leveling the playing field between corporations and communities; providing horizontal capacity building to community actors and holding corporations accountable for their human rights violations. In pursuit of that passion, Emily has been involved in cases against corporations including Nestlé, Chiquita, ExxonMobil, Rubicon Resources, and others.
Immediately prior to joining the HREC, Emily worked on strategic human rights litigation at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll. At Cohen Milstein, Emily assisted in preparation of trial materials for a case against ExxonMobil for support of human rights abuses in Indonesia – that case settled shortly before trial. She also contributed to, among other matters, briefing in the Ratha case at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a case focused on the role of Rubicon Resources in an international shrimp supply chain containing forced labor.
In previous roles with Partners in Justice International (PJI) and the Human Rights Law Foundation (HRLF), Emily gained deep experience in legal and factual research on a wide range of topics in human rights and international law. As a legal fellow with PJI, she engaged closely with legal practitioners in countries such as Kenya and South Korea, learning from their expertise. She also spearheaded a project during her fellowship to support access to justice for atrocity crimes in Myanmar, engaging with civil society to share information on how to engage with mechanisms such as the ICC, ICJ, and International Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar following the 2021 military coup and subsequent human rights violations.
Please contact me at eray@law.harvard.edu with any questions or to connect!
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