Mr. Ringer graduated from the Yale Law School in 2008, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, and an Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law.  He held a Teaching Fellowship in the Yale University Department of Political Science, and was Chair of the Yale Incentive for Participation in Public Interest Employment.  In 2008, he organized a Symposium at the Yale Law School, entitled Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries, attended by scholars, businesspeople, and human rights practitioners from around the world.  

Mr. Ringer was active in Yale’s clinical programs. From 2006 to 2008, he was a member of the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, where he assisted with a constitutional lawsuit against local and federal authorities stemming from the unlawful arrest of eleven day laborers.  He represented a coalition of Latino community organizations in a Freedom of Information Act case against the Department of Homeland Security to obtain records concerning unconstitutional immigration enforcement practices.  In that capacity, he drafted briefs and affidavits, and argued in federal court.  He also served as legislative counsel to a grassroots Latino community group.  

Previously, Mr. Ringer participated in the Community Lawyering Clinic, where he counseled and represented low-income survivors of domestic violence in a variety of civil matters, including custody and child support, temporary restraining orders, and landlord-tenant disputes.  During his first law school summer, he interned with a human rights organization in northern Thailand, assisting with legal and political campaigns to promote corporate social responsibility in the gas and mining industries in Burma.  

Mr. Ringer has received a M.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford (Balliol College), where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  He is a graduate of Trinity College in the University of Toronto, where he received his Honors B.A. with High Distinction from the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, and was a Provost’s Scholar.

He is the author of Development, Reform, and the Rule of Law, 10 Yale Hum. Rts & Dev. L.J. 178 (2007).