Forum Nobis PLLC is led by its Managing Attorney, Aaron Marr Page. Mr. Page founded Forum Nobis in 2010. Before that, he was the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he specialized in investment treaty arbitration and human rights litigation. He has worked for the South African Human Rights Commission in Cape Town, South Africa., and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where, among other activities, he organized and hosted a ground-breaking 2004 symposium on the development of Indigenous peoples rights in international human rights and other forums. Before entering the legal profession, Mr. Page worked as a journalist at several U.S. and international news and opinion magazines as well as online and television media.
In addition to Forum Nobis, Mr. Page teaches human rights at the University of Iowa College of Law, and has previously taught human rights, international law, and environmental law at the Vermont Law School, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. He is a member of the advisory board of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.
Mr. Page is a member of the Bar of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia and the Bars of the United States District Court and Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. He is active in the American Bar Association Section on International Law and edits the International Litigation section of The International Lawyer’s annual Year in Review publication.
In addition to the Forum Nobis blog, Mr. Page writes for The Huffington Post and CSRwire.