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Leila Nadya Sadat

Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law, Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute and the Alexis de Tocqueville Distinguished Fulbright Chair, University of Cergy-Pontoise
Windows on the World: A Commentary on international law, global justice, foreign affairs and....  

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Professor Leila Nadya Sadat is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. Professor Sadat is an award-winning and prolific scholar with more than 75 articles and books to her name, and in December 2012, was named Special Adviser to ICC Prosecuter Fatou Bensouda for Crimes Against Humanity. She is also the Director of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a multi-year project to study the problem of crimes against humanity and draft a comprehensive convention addressing their punishment and prevention. Sadat teaches public international law, international criminal law and human rights and is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the International Criminal Court. From 2001-2003 Sadat was appointed to the nine-member U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom by Congress. Sadat often lectures and teaches abroad, and in 2011 held the Alexis de Tocqueville Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Paris, France. In 2012 Sadat was elected to membership on the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds or has held leadership positions in professional associations and learned societies, including the International Law Association (American Branch), the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP), the American Law Institute, the American Society of International Law, the American Society of Comparative Law and the International Law Students Association. Sadat received her B.A. from Douglass College, her J.D. from Tulane Law School (summa cum laude) and holds graduate law degrees from Columbia University School of Law (LLM, summa cum laude) and the University of Paris I – Sorbonne (diplôme d’études approfondies).

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• An American in Paris: Professor Leila Nadya Sadat  
• Windows on the World: A Commentary on international law, global justice, foreign affairs and human rights