Contributors
Contributing authors to International Criminal Justice Today
Betsy Apple
Betsy Apple is the Advocacy Director at the Open Society Justice Initiative in New York. She was part of the legal team that sued the Trump Administrati...
Fatou Bensouda
In December 2011, Mrs. Fatou Bensouda was elected by consensus by the Assembly of States Parties to serve as the Prosecutor of the International Crimina...
Wendy Betts
Wendy Betts is the Director of eyeWitness, a project of the International Bar Association focused on the collection of verifiable video of human rights ...
Members of the ABA's ICC Project Board of Advisors
For more information on the Board of Advisors of the ABA’s ICC Project, please visit the following page.
Honorable Irina Bokova
Irina Bokova has been the Director-General of UNESCO since 15 November 2009. As Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is actively engaged in internat...
Professor David Bosco
Professor David Bosco is an assistant professor at American University’s School of International Service and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy mag...
Helen Brady
Helen Brady is the Senior Appeals Counsel and Head of the Appeals Section at the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC...
Danya Chaikel
Danya Chaikel is an independent legal consultant based in The Hague. As a Canadian trial lawyer, she previously practiced family, criminal defence and h...
Professor M. Kamari Clarke
Professor M. Kamari Clarke is a professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is also the Chair of the Yale Counc...
Stephen Smith Cody
Stephen Smith Cody is director of the Atrocity Response Program at the Human Rights Center, University of California (UC) Berkeley School of Law. He des...
Richard Dicker
Richard Dicker, Director of Human Rights Watch’s international justice program since it was founded in 2001, has worked at Human Rights Watch since 1991...
Gilles Dutertre
From 1997 to 2002, Gilles Dutertre served as a prosecution trial lawyer and, subsequently, as a sentence enforcement judge in France. From 2002 to 2005,...
HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal
His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and is the brother of His late Majesty King Hussein ...
Fergal Gaynor
Fergal Gaynor is counsel for the victims in Prosecutor v. Uhuru Kenyatta at the International Criminal Court, and is a visiting fellow at Harvard Law Sc...
Honorable Richard J. Goldstone
The Honorable Richard J. Goldstone was a judge in South Africa for 23 years, the last nine as a Justice of the Constitutional Court. From August 1994 to...
Dr. Fabricio Guariglia
Dr. Fabricio Guariglia is the Director of the Prosecutions Division in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He was ap...
Christopher 'Kip' Hale
Kip Hale is an attorney specializing in atrocity crimes accountability. Previously, he was senior counsel of the American Bar Association (ABA) Center f...
Herman von Hebel
Herman von Hebel (The Netherlands) is the Registrar of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a position he was elected to on 8 March 2013. Mr. von Heb...
Mark Kersten
Mark Kersten is a research fellow based at the Munk School of Global Affairs. His research focuses on the politics and effects of interventions by the I...
Alexa Koenig
Alexa Koenig is the executive director of the Human Rights Center at University of California (UC) Berkeley School of Law and a lecturer at UC Berkeley....
Ottilia Anna Maunganidze
Ms. Ottilia Anna Maunganidze is the acting Programme Head and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) with a focus on emerging thr...
Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell
Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution—Kroc Institute for Inter...
Dr. Priya Pillai
Dr. Priya Pillai is an international lawyer and heads the Asia Justice Coalition secretariat, a network of organizations focused on justice and accounta...
Honorable Navanethem Pillay
The Honorable Navanethem (Navi) Pillay served as United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008-14. Prior to this position, Ms. Pillay...
Stephen Rademaker
Stephen Rademaker practices law at the Washington DC firm of Covington & Burling. During a 20-plus year career in government, he served, among other...
Honorable Stephen J. Rapp
Distinguished Fellow, The Hague Institute for Global Justice and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015-; Member, Board of Advisors, American Bar Associat...
Honorable Kevin Rudd
Mr. Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister (2007-2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010-2012). Mr. Rudd joined the Asia Society Policy Insti...
Leila Nadya Sadat
Leila Nadya Sadat is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor, Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow and Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washi...
Professor William A. Schabas
William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University London, professor of international criminal law and human rights at Leiden ...
Honorable David Scheffer
The Honorable David Scheffer is Clinical Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights of Northwestern Universit...
Honorable Cynthia P Schneider
Cynthia P. Schneider, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, teaches, publishes, and organizes initiatives in th...
Sam Sasan Shoamanesh
Sam Sasan Shoamanesh is the Chef de Cabinet to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), having assumed this post in September 2013. A...
Kristin J. Smith
Kristin J. Smith is the Director of the Atrocity Crimes Initiative, a group of projects (including the International Criminal Court Project) focused on ...
Professor Eric Stover
Eric Stover is the faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California (UC) Berkeley School of Law and an adjunct professor of l...
Honorable Ekaterina Trendafilova
In December 2016, Judge Trendafilova was appointed the first President of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers based in The Hague, The Netherlands. As a Judge...
Professor Beth Van Schaack
Professor Beth Van Schaack is a Visiting Professor at the Stanford Law School after stepping down as Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Is...
Professor Allen S. Weiner
Allen S. Weiner is Senior Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he serves as Director of the Program in International and Comparative Law. He pr...
Professor Alex G. Whiting
Alex Whiting is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School where he teaches, writes and consults on domestic and international criminal prosecution i...
Max du Plessis
Max du Plessis is an associate professor of law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a senior research associate at the International Crimes in Africa...