Lee Boyd is of counsel with the law firm of Howarth & Smith.
As a litigation consultant from 2000 to 2007, Ms. Boyd
specializes in federal court complex and international
litigation. Some of her cases include Siderman v. Republic
of Argentina, Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., and recently,
Alperin v. Vatican Bank in which her role as appellate counsel
for Holocaust survivor plaintiffs resulted in a Ninth Circuit
reversal of a trial court dismissal. Ms. Boyd served as a
tenured faculty member of Pepperdine University Law School,
where she taught Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation,
International Litigation, Human Rights Law, and Trial Practice
and Procedure from 1998 through 2006. During that time, she
published numerous law review articles and book chapters in the
subject of international and human rights litigation in U.S.
courts, including The Inconvenience of Victims: Abolishing the
Doctrine of Forum Non Conveniens in U.S. Human Rights
Litigation, (Virginia Journal of International Law Vol. 39
(1998), Collective Rights Adjudication in U.S. Courts: Enforcing
Human Rights at the Corporate Level, Brigham Young University
Law School Vol. 1999, No. 4 (1999), Universal Jurisdiction and
Structural Reasonableness, Texas International Law Journal, Vol.
40 (2004), Unholy Profits: Holocaust Restitution and the Vatican
Bank, chapter 12 in HOLOCAUST RESTITUTION: PERSPECTIVES ON THE
LITIGATION and ITS LEGACY (Eds. Michael Bazyler and Roger P.
Alford, 2006) .
Ms. Boyd continues to teach regularly at Pepperdine Law
School as an adjunct professor in the areas of international
litigation, complex litigation, and human rights law.
Prior to joining the faculty of Pepperdine Law School, Ms.
Boyd was a visiting professor at Whittier Law School from 1996
to 1998. From 1993 to 1996, Ms. Boyd was a litigation
associate at the law firm of Loeb & Loeb. From 1990 to
1993, she served under Robert Morgenthau as an Assistant
District Attorney for the New York County District Attorney's
Office where she conducted numerous jury trials to verdict.
From 1989 to 1990, Ms. Boyd served as a judicial law clerk for
Judge Hector M. Laffitte of the United States District Court for
the District of Puerto Rico, who sat by designation on the First
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Boyd received a Bachelor of Arts with Highest Honors in
American Studies and Spanish from the University of Virginia in
1986, and a Juris Doctorate cum laude from Harvard Law School in
1989. During law school, she was the recipient of a Ford
Foundation Fellowship to work the for Center for Legal and
Social Studies in Buenos Aires, Argentina as a legal intern
prosecuting war crimes before Argentine courts. From fellowship
experience, she published an article in the Human Rights
Quarterly Vol. 12 (1990) entitled Due Obedience and Democracy in
Argentina.
Ms. Boyd is admitted to practice law in California and New
York, as well as the United States District Court (Central and
Northern Districts of California), United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York, and the United States
Court of Appeals, Second and Ninth Circuits.
Ms. Boyd is an active member of the International Law
Association (ILA) and has served as chair of the annual ILA
conference in New York in 2005, served on the Executive
Committee, and has delivered several papers at the annual East
and West coast conferences of the ILA. She is an active member
of the American Society of International Law. Ms. Boyd
speaks fluent Spanish and conversational French.
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