John A. Detzner

John A. (Jack) Detzner is resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.  He has retired from his international trade compliance practice but maintains an active pro bono practice, including representation of unaccompanied immigrant children before U.S. Immigration Court and representation of veterans before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

 Mr. Detzner also continues to serve on the Inter-American Development Bank’s Sanctions Committee as an External Member.

 Mr. Detzner previously lived in Ecuador and Chile, speaks Spanish and conducts his work in both English and Spanish.

• Harvard Law School, J.D., 1980
• Harvard College, A.B., 1977

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• District of Columbia
• Illinois

Mr. Detzner’s pro bono work has included legal assistance to the Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to the family of a U.S. citizen killed in Chile, and to the family of two Chilean citizens killed in Argentina. In this area of international law, he is the author of a book in Spanish entitled Tribunales Chilenos y Derecho Internacional de Derechos Humanos (Chilean Courts and International Human Rights Law) (Santiago 1988), and articles in Spanish, including “Utilización de mecanismos internacionales en la protección de derechos humanos: el caso chileno,”  (“Use of International Mechanisms in the Protection of Human Rights: The Chilean Case”) Revista IIDH, 6 (1987): 3-20.