Victor Boutros

Mr. Boutros investigates and prosecutes official misconduct, hate crimes, and human trafficking around the country in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He previously served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, a litigator at a large firm, and a judicial law clerk.

Mr. Boutros has worked with the president of Ecuador to improve prison conditions, documented bonded slaves in India, and served as a visiting lawyer with the National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa. He has written on human rights and foreign affairs, directed a comparative law project on child rape, and co-authored a country discrimination report on South Africa for the U.N. World Conference Against Racism.

Mr. Boutros is a graduate of Baylor, Harvard, and Oxford universities, and received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review.