Sarah Hull Cleveland (born September 4, 1965), an American judge, lawyer, law professor, and former State Department official, is a judge on the International Court of Justice and the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School (currently on leave of absence).

[1][2] Cleveland grew up in Alabama and earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Brown University in 1987 with membership in Phi Beta Kappa; an M.St.

in British Imperial and Commonwealth history from Lincoln College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar, in 1989; and a J.D.

[5] In 2007 she joined the faculty of Columbia Law School, where she is the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights (on leave of absence).

2009 and update 2013) and a co-editor of The Restatement and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Foreign Relations Law (Oxford University Press, 2020).

[8][9][10] In March 2014, the U.S. Government nominated Cleveland to serve as an independent expert on the Human Rights Committee.

On August 10, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Cleveland to be the Legal Adviser of the Department of State.