Prof. Gregory S. Gordon - “Hate Speech and the ICC’s Substantive Crimes”

Prof. Gordon is a law professor and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies at the University of North Dakota. He is one of the world's leading experts on the international law of hate speech, on which he has published widely, and serves as incitement adviser for the Sentinel Project on Genocide Prevention. As an attorney with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda OTP, he worked on the landmark "media" cases, the first international post-Nuremberg prosecutions of media executives for incitement to genocide. He also worked as a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was at one point detailed to Sierra Leone to conduct a post-civil war justice assessment for the Office of Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training. He has trained high-level prosecutors in Ethiopia, at the ECCC in Cambodia and at the War Crimes Chamber for the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Professor Gordon also co-wrote the U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief of Holocaust and Darfur Genocide survivors in the case of Yousuf v. Samantar.  He represented the International League for Human Rights at the ICC Conference in Kampala, Uganda. In the fall of 2014, Professor Gordon will be joining the faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he will teach international criminal law and serve as Assistant Dean for Post-Graduate Education.