Interruptors on International Law

  • Sareta Ashraph – Senior Legal Consultant for the Center for Justice and Accountability providing strategic litigation and case file development expertise for investigations into atrocities committed in Syria | Expert in international criminal, humanitarian, and human rights law | Profile
  • Nicole Bürli – Legal Expert and Asia Coordinator for the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) | Specializes in international human rights law, the prohibition of torture, sexual and gender-based crimes, and access to remedies | Biography
  • Lisa Collins – Fellow, Korea Chair Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) | Expert in U.S.-ROK relations, North Korea, human rights and refugee law, transitional justice, Northeast Asian security, and intersection between international law and international relations | Staff Profile
  • Lisa Davis – International Human Rights Attorney | Senior Legal Advisor of MADRE, an international feminist human rights organization | Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights & Gender Justice Clinic | Biography
  • Marie Davoise – Associate Appeals Counsel (Office of the Prosecutor) at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals | Former Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court (ICC) | LinkedIn
  • Noura Erakat – International Human Rights Lawyer | Former Legal Counsel for the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the US House of Representatives | Author of “Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine” | Website
  • Alexandra (“Sasha”) Filippova – Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for Justice and Accountability | Former Legal Advisor and Fellow at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative | Attorney specializing in human rights and public international law | Staff Profile
  • Chiara Giorgetti – International Law Professor at Richmond Law School | Former Associate at White & Case LLP, where she worked on ICC and ICSID cases | Expert in international courts, international adjudication & arbitration and ISDS reform | Staff Profile
  • Michele Goodwin – Executive Committee Member of the ACLU | Director of the first ABA accredited health law program in the US | Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine | Website
  • Alexandra Harrington – Director of Studies for the International Law Association Colombian branch | Consultant for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation and UN Environment | Biography
  • Melissa Kucinski – Member of the US Department of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law | Professorial Lecturer in Law at Georgetown Law School | Former Consultant to the Hague Conference on Private International Law | Expert in international family law | Profile
  • Rebecca Landy – Human Rights Legal Consultant at Women Enabled International | Director of International Advocacy & Accountability at US Human Rights Network | Expert in international and domestic human rights law and advocacy | LinkedIn
  • Beth S. Lyons – Defense Counsel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) | Former Defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) | Criminal defense attorney practicing in Legal Aid programs in NYC, as well as in international courts and tribunals | Website
  • Tanya Mehra – Senior Research Fellow and Programme Lead (Rule of Law Responses to Terrorism) at the International Centre for Counterterrorism at the Hague | Expert in rule of law approaches in countering terrorism, with a special focus on accountability of terrorism-related crimes and human rights implications of countering terrorism approaches | Staff Profile
  • Michelle Onello – International Human Rights Lawyer and Senior Counsel at the Global Justice Center (GJC) | Profile
  • Cymie Payne – Legal counsel with the UN Security Council’s United Nations Compensation Commission | Representative for the International Union for Conservation of Nature at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea | Website
  • Priya Pillai – Lawyer and International Law Consultant | Former in-house counsel at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) | Consults on international law for Amnesty International, WHO and the IFRC | Website
  • Akila Radhakrishnan – President of the Global Justice Center (GJC) | Human Rights Lawyer | Leads GJC’s Gender and Genocide Project which focuses on the gendered components of genocide | GJC Profile
  • Naomi Roht-Arriaza – President of the Due Process of Law Foundation | Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings Law | Expert in transitional justice, post-conflict justice, and international human rights law | Staff Profile
  • Christina Voigt – Co-chair of the Paris Agreement’s Compliance and Implementation Committee | Chair of the Climate Change Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law | Renowned expert in international environmental law | Website
  • Sandra Wisner – Senior Staff Attorney at the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti | Former UN Legal Consultant | Canadian lawyer specializing in international human rights law & corporate accountability | Staff Profile