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Bob Golten is a 1954 graduate of the University of Michigan and of the Harvard Law School class of 1959. He has been a public interest lawyer and clinical law teacher most of his career: litigator with the federal Department of Justice and as a District of Columbia public defender, general counsel for the Job Corps (a federal anti-poverty program), an environmental litigator with the National Wildlife Federation, the county attorney for Summit County (Colorado) and a private practitioner with a firm representing American Indian tribes. Golten has started and directed two clinical law programs at the University of Colorado law school, one in Natural Resources Law and another in American Indian Law. In 1996 he began going overseas as a volunteer with the American Bar Association to help start legal-aid programs in law schools in Slovakia, Azerbaijan and Uganda. That sparked an interest in International Human Rights law and policy.
Thus, in 1998 with support from Professors Ved Nanda and Jack Donnelly, Golten established the Center for International Human Rights Advocacy and began teaching an interdisciplinary clinical course (INTS 4945) in human rights advocacy at GSIS.