Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, American University
Program Experts
Learn and interact with judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Special Rapporteurs and Committee members of United Nations, members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, experts from prominent NGOs, and experts from all over the world.
English Seminars
Founding Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone & Former Under Secretary General, United Nations
Sandra Epal-Ratjen
UN Representative and Senior Legal Adviser, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Tracey Begley
Former Senior Advisor, Office of Global Criminal Justice, at the United States Department of State and Former Deputy Head of the Legal Department for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Regional Delegation for the United States and Canada.
President of the United Nations Committee against Torture, Eminent Ambassador of Mexico, and independent consultant on international affairs
Executive Director, International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers' Association (ICoCa), Geneva, Switzerland
Former Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Chiara Liguori
Senior Policy Adviser & Climate Justice Expert
Sylvain Vite
Head of the Legal Department at the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the United States and Canada
Paola Burgos Zechinelli
Regional Legal Coordinator for the Americas, International Committee of the Red Cross. (ICRC)
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Distinguished Professor of Law, Emerita at the University of California College of Law, San Francisco
Spanish Seminars
Former Member, Committee Against Torture (CAT), United Nations, Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law
Patsilí Toledo
Co-Chair of CEDAW’s Working Group on Gender-based Violence against Women
Professor of Public International Law at the University of Deusto, Director of the Programa of "Formación en Derechos Humanos para Líderes Indígenas"
Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists and Professor, American University Washington College of Law
Professor emeritus, University of Milan, Ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice, and Former President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Former Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations
Deputy Executive Secretary for the System of Petitions, Cases and Friendly Solutions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Member, International Law Commission, United Nations, and Dean Emeritus, American University Washington College of Law
