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, and a Juris Doctorate cum laude from Harvard Law School. 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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