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Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at N.Y.U. teaching International Law; Human Rights in Theory & Practice; International Justice; Transitional Justice; U.S. Use of Force & the “Global War on Terror”; and a field intensive on “War Crimes Prosecutions in the Former Yugoslavia” to The Hague, Bosnia and Serbia, as well as a field intensive to Rwanda. Served as counsel and of counsel to the International Justice Program of Human Rights Watch; served as Iraq Prosecutions Consultant to the International Center of Transitional Justice; and worked on cases before the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Author of “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda” (HRW 2010) (500 pages), and “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.” (HRW 2006) (963 pages). Author of various book chapters, and scores of law reviews, including “Why the Killing in Darfur is Genocide,” “The Rome Statute’s Amendment on the Crime of Aggression: Negotiations at the Kampala Review Conference,” as well as several articles on the Iraqi High Tribunal. Serves as Chairperson of the American Branch of the International Law Association’s International Criminal Court Committee, as a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law, and a member of the International Law Associations' Committee on the Use of Force..She has also taught at Columbia University, Fordham Law School, Brooklyn Law School, The New School, and lectures at Salzburg Law School’s Institute on International Criminal Law.