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Leila Nadya Sadat Washington University School of Law One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1120 St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899 (314) 935-6411 (tel), (314) 935-5356 (fax) [email protected] http://ssrn.com/author=55851 http://law.wustl.edu/harris/index.aspx Blog: http://law.wustl.edu/harris/lexlata/ Current Position Washington University School of Law Director, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, 2007 – present James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, since 2016 Henry H. Oberschelp Professor, 2004 – 2016 Professor of Law, 1998 – 2004 Associate Professor of Law, 1992 – 1998 Director and Co-Founder, Summer Institute for International Law and Policy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2005-2013) Director, Crimes Against Humanity Initiative http://crimesagainsthumanity.wustl.edu/, multi- year project to write and have adopted the world’s first global treaty on crimes against humanity Courses: International Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights, International Business Transactions, European Union Law, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Foreign Affairs, Terrorism and Human Rights Faculty and University Service: Law School Committees have included Admissions; Appointments; Curriculum; Promotions & Tenure; Strategic Planning; Student/Faculty Relations; Faculty Advisor and Coach, Philip C. Jessep International Moot Court Competition, 1998 – present. University Committees have included Assembly Series; Awards; Faculty Senate Council, Law School Representative 2006 – 2009 and 2017-2020; Holocaust Lecture; International Relations; Board Member, Association of Women Faculty 2013 – 2017. Northwestern University Buffet Institute for Global Studies Distinguished Visitor, 2018 International Criminal Court Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor, December 2012 – present Leila Nadya Sadat Page 2 of 16 Education University of Paris I – Sorbonne Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (“D.E.A.”), Droit International Privé et Droit du Commerce International, July 1988 Columbia University School of Law Master of Laws, May 1987 Perfect Record (received an “Excellent” for every course taken) Jervey Fellow in Foreign Law (full funding for the year at Columbia and the subsequent year at the Sorbonne) Tulane University School of Law Juris Doctor, May 1985, summa cum laude Rank: 1/240; Grade Point Average: 3.95/4.00 Tulane Law Review - Senior Notes Editor; received awards for two publications Order of the Coif • Merit Scholar • Faculty Medal Douglass College Bachelor of Arts, January 1980; accelerated program Dean’s List • National Merit Letter of Commendation • President, N.J. Student Ass’n Other Professional Experience United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Commissioner, 2001 - 2003. (Nominated by then Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, appointed by Congress). The 9-member Commission was established by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to advise the President and the Department of State on Issues of International Religious Freedom, both generally and with regard to particular countries. See http://www.uscirf.gov/ Private Practice Slaughter and May, Paris, France (1991-92) Associate, specializing in transnational litigation, sovereign debt restructuring and international lending agreements Law Offices of S. G. Archibald, Paris, France (1988-91) Associate, specializing in International Chamber of Commerce arbitrations, transnational litigation and international joint ventures Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Paris, France (1987) Associate, specializing in transnational litigation and Eurobond issues Judicial Clerkships La Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court), Fall 1988 Le Conseil d’Etat (French Council of State), Spring 1988 The Honorable Albert Tate, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Law Clerk, 1985-1986 Term Leila Nadya Sadat Page 3 of 16 Academic Honors and Awards YWCA Women’s Leadership Academy Award (December 15, 2017) Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Faculty Award, Washington University (November 3, 2017) Honorary Doctor of Laws, Northwestern University (June 2017) International Women’s Day Award, Washington University School of Law, Women’s Law Caucus, March 6, 2017 Alexis de Tocqueville Distinguished Fulbright Chair, Paris France (Spring 2011) Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow, Spring 1999; 2003-2004; 2014-2015 Outstanding Article of the Year Award (2014), Crimes Against Humanity in the Modern Age (2014), International Association of Penal Law (American Branch) Outstanding Book of the Year Award (2011), FORGING A CONVENTION FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, International Association of Penal Law (American Branch) Outstanding Article of the Year Award (2010), The Nuremberg Paradox, International Association of Penal Law (American Branch) Outstanding Article of the Year Award (2006), Exile, Amnesty and International Law, International Association of Penal Law (American Branch) Outstanding Book of the Year (2003), THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, International Association of Penal Law (American Branch) Grants and Foundation Support Received Brookings – Washington University Joint Venture Fund, 2010 Deutsche Financial Grant (to Support Single Currency Conference), 1997 Humanity United Grant Recipient, 2009 Planethood Foundation, 2012; 2016-17 St. Louis Holocaust Museum, 2018 United States Institute of Peace Grant Recipient, 2000-2001; 2009-2010 Publications Books THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (West Nutshell, 2018) (forthcoming) SEEKING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE UNLAWFUL USE OF FORCE (Leila Nadya Sadat, ed., Cambridge, 2018) (forthcoming) THE FOUNDERS (David M. Crane, Leila Nadya Sadat and Michael P. Scharf, eds, Cambridge, 2018) FORGING A CONVENTION FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (2d ed. Leila Nadya Sadat, ed., Cambridge 2013) INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (4th ed., Carolina, 2013) (with Bassiouni, Paust, et al.) FORGING A CONVENTION FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Leila Nadya Sadat, ed., Cambridge 2011) Leila Nadya Sadat Page 4 of 16 Publications (cont.) THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF M. CHERIF BASSIOUNI (Leila N. Sadat, Michael P. Scharf, eds., Martinus Nihof 2008) INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (3rd ed., Carolina, 2006) (with Bassiouni, Paust, et al.) THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: JUSTICE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM (Transnational, 2002) INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (2nd ed., Carolina, 2000) (with Bassiouni, Paust, et al.) MODEL DRAFT STATUTE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT BASED ON THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE’S TEXT TO THE DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE, ROME, JUNE 15-JULY 17, 1998, 13TER NOUVELLES ÉTUDES PÉNALES (Leila Sadat Wexler, special ed. 1998) Selected Articles and Essays A Contextual & Historical Analysis of the International Law Commission’s 2017 Draft Articles for a New Global Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity, __ JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE __ (2018) (forthcoming) Whither Human Rights in the Era of Trump, 35 NETHERLANDS QUARTERLY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2 (2017) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2983865 Washington University School of Law’s Global Trajectory, 53 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY 35 (2017) (150th Anniversary Essay) Putting Peacetime First: Crimes Against Humanity and the Civilian Population Requirement, 31 EMORY INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 197 (2017) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2836202 Cited by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia The Nuremberg Trial, Seventy Years Later, 15 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY GLOBAL STUDIES LAW REVIEW 575 (2016) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2791774 The Proposed Restatement Fourth of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States: Treaties - Some Serious Procedural and Substantive Concerns, 2015 B.Y.U. LAW REVIEW 1673 (2016) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2650528 Genocide in Syria: International Legal Options, International Legal Limits, and the Serious Problem of Political Will, 5 IMPUNITY WATCH LAW JOURNAL 1 (2015) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2566260 Can the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugosliavia Šainović and Perišić Cases Be Reconciled? 108 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 475 (2014) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2474639 Seven Canons of ICC Treaty Interpretation: Making Sense of Article 25’s Rorschach Blot, 27 LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 755 (2014) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355430 Cited by the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in the Lubanga appeals judgement Crimes Against Humanity in the Modern Age, 107 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 334 (2013) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2013254 Leila Nadya Sadat Page 5 of 16 Publications (cont.) America’s Drone Wars, 45 CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 215 (2013) HTTPS://PAPERS.SSRN.COM/SOL3/PAPERS.CFM?ABSTRACT_ID=2248048 Avoiding the Creation of a Gender Ghetto in International Criminal Law, 11 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 655 (2011) (symposium in honor of Judge Patricia Wald) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1937600 On Legal Subterfuge and the So-Called “Lawfare” Debate, 43 CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 153 (2011) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1698168 Beyond Kampala: Complementarity and the International Criminal Court: The Next Steps