Sandra Babcock
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Clinical Director, Center for International Human Rights
Northwestern University School of Law
B.A., Johns Hopkins University
J.D., Harvard University
Sandra Babcock is a clinical professor of law and the clinical director of the Center for International Human Rights. She has taught a number of courses in the field of human rights, including gender and international human rights, human rights in the 21st century, human rights advocacy, and international law and the death penalty. In addition to teaching at Northwestern, she has taught at the University of Addis Ababa and South Texas College of Law. She has argued human rights cases before the International Court of Justice, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and has received several awards for her work representing foreign nationals on death row.
Christopher Blakesley
Professor of Law, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
B.A., University of Utah
J.D., University of Utah
M.A., Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy
J.S.D., Columbia University
Professor Blakesley is the Cobeaga Professor of Law at the Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where he teaches comparative criminal law and procedure, public international law, and international criminal law. Among his publications are Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism: A Normative and Practical Assessment (Martinus Nijhoff 2007); The International Legal System: Cases and Materials, 5th ed. (Foundation Press, 2001); Terrorism Drugs, International Law and the Protection of Human Liberty (Transnational Publishers, 1992); and The Individual as Subject of International Cooperation in Criminal Matters (with Albin Eser and Otto Lagodny)(Nomos Verlagsgellschaft, Baden-Baden, 2002). Prior to moving to UNLV, Professor Blakesley was the J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law at Louisiana State University Law Center. Prior to that, he was an attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, where he handled international criminal law and international human rights matters.
Oliver Houck
Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law
B.A., Harvard University;
J.D., Georgetown University
Professor Houck's teaching interests are in environmental, natural resources and criminal law. After three years in military service, he was a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office, in Washington, DC and, subsequently, General Counsel to the National Wildlife Federation, also in Washington. He serves on several national boards, has received a number of awards for teaching and research, and has published more than thirty books and articles on subjects ranging from environmental to tax, constitutional and criminal law.
J.K. Kleffner
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Amsterdam
L.L.M., University of Amsterdam
Ph.D., University of Amsterdam
Jann Kleffner is assistant professor of law at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches the laws of armed conflict and general public international law. Amongst other, he is also Managing Editor of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (The Hague: TMC Asser Press), co-convenor of the Research Forum on the Law of Armed Conflict and Peace Operations (LACPO) and has taught courses and lectures on international criminal law and the laws of armed conflict in The Netherlands and abroad. His main research interests are the international legal aspects of armed conflicts, including the law of armed conflict, the law regulating the use of force; human rights in armed conflicts and situations of emergency, international criminal law, and general international law. Among his publications are ‘Complementarity in the Rome Statute and National Criminal Jurisdictions’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008), ‘Depleted Uranium Weapons and International Law – A Precautionary Approach’ (The Hague: TMC Asser Press 2008), 'Jus Post Bellum: Towards a Law of Transition from Conflict to Peace (The Hague: TMC Asser Press 2008), ‘Complementary views on Complementarity’ (The Hague TMC Asser Press 2006), ‘Internationalized Criminal Courts: Sierra Leone, East Timor, Kosovo, and Cambodia’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004) and a number of law review articles on international criminal law and the law of armed conflict.
Herbert V. Larson, Jr.
Executive Director, International Legal Programs
Professor of the Practice
Tulane University School of Law
B.A., Tulane University
J.D., Loyola University (New Orleans)
M.Phil., Cambridge University
Herbert Larson is the director of international legal programs at Tulane University School of Law, where he also teaches international criminal law, and federal criminal law.
Denise LeBoeuf
Director of the John Adams Project
American Civil Liberties Union
B.A., Hunter College of the City University of New York
J.D., Tulane Law School
Denise LeBoeuf is the Director of the John Adams Project, which provides military defenders assistance in the defense of capitally charged Guantanamo detainees. She represents the Project in a coalition of national and international human rights organizations that seek to reform the Military Commissions. Ms. LeBoeuf has been a capital defender for over twenty years, representing persons facing death at trial and in post-conviction in state and federal courts. She has testified before Congress on the death penalty, and has lectured extensively on various aspects of the American death penalty around the world. She was a member of the 2003 Committee that formulated the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases. She is the recipient of the Significant Contribution to Criminal Justice Award from California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the Life in the Balance Achievement Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and the Access to Justice Award from the Jacob Burns Ethics Center of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Bart Stapert
Attorney at law, Böhler, Franken, Koppe and Wijngaarden, Amsterdam
Adjunct lecturer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Doctoral degree in Law and Public Administration, Groningen University, Netherlands
J.D., Loyola University (New Orleans)
Honorary Doctorate in Law, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Bart Stapert is a practicing attorney at one of the major human rights law firms in the Netherlands (www.bfkw.nl). The firm handles cases dealing with international human rights, refugee law and (international) criminal defense. Before joining the firm in March of 2007, Stapert taught courses in comparative law and international criminal law at Utrecht University. He will be teaching at Tulane’s Summer Program for the sixth consecutive year. From 1989 to 2001, he worked in the United States: first as investigator and defense attorney in capital cases and later as Director of the St. Thomas Community Law Center, a non-profit law firm in a public housing development in New Orleans. He is currently finishing a book on the comparison of the right to counsel in the US and Europe, which will also serve as his Ph.D.-thesis. He is the former Chair of the Dutch section of Amnesty International.
Alex Whiting
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
B.A. ,Yale University
J.D., Yale Law School
Mr. Whiting teaches courses and directs clinical programs relating to war crime prosecutions and the prosecution of domestic crime in the U.S. Before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School, Alex Whiting spent nearly six years as a trial attorney and senior trial attorney with the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Before accepting a position with the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICTY, Mr. Whiting worked for the U.S. Department of Justice for ten years, first as a trial attorney with the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division and then as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts.