Leila Sadat Lecture
Bio: Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. She serves as Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor, and in 2008 launched the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a ground-breaking project to write the world’s first global treaty on crimes against humanity. She is a prolific scholar in the fields of public international law, international criminal law, human rights and foreign affairs, and has published more than 100 books and articles in leading journals, academic presses, and media outlets. She held the Alexis de Tocqueville Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Paris, France in Spring 2011. In 2018 she launched the Gun Violence and Human Rights project examining the U.S. gun violence crisis from a human rights perspective. She is the President of the International Law Association (American Branch) and a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
Date: 13 May 2019, 13:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Blavatnik School of Government (Room tbc)
Speaker: Leila Sadat (Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute)
Organising department: Centre for Criminology
Organisers: Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford), Oxford Transitional Justice Research (University of Oxford)
Part of: Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Rebecca Bunyan