Marco Simons
Marco Simons is currently the Legal Director of EarthRights International (ERI),
a nongovernmental legal and advocacy organization that focuses on the
intersection between human rights abuses and environmental degradation,
especially in the context of extractive industries. At EM, Marco focuses on
transnational litigation against corporations for human rights and environmental
abuses, including the seminal Alien Tort Statute (ATS) case Doe v. Unocal,
arising out of abuses associated with a natural gas pipeline in Burma. He is
currently litigating several ATS cases as well as transnational environmental
cases.
Marco is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he received the Robert L.
Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights to work with EarthRights
International. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Dorothy Wright
Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then worked for
Hadsell & Stormer, Inc., a Pasadena civil rights law fm, which was co-counsel
on Doe v. Unocal and on the ATS case Bowoto v. Chevron (on which ERI is also
counsel). He also served as Collzmunications Director for the campaign of Ro
IUlanna for U.S. Congress in California's 12th District, and has taught human
rights law at Occidental College and American University. Marco holds an
undergraduate degree in environmental science. He is currently admitted to
practice in California, Washington DC, and Washington state