Prof. David Kaye: "The Council and the Court"

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Prof. David Kaye is a member of the faculty at the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UC Irvine School of Law), where he directs the International Justice Clinic and teaches other subjects in International Law. Previously on the faculty of UCLA School of Law, Prof. Kaye was founding Executive Director of its International Human Rights Programme. He has taught courses in Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, and Human Rights at Georgetown University, Whittier Law School, and summer courses at the Universities of Toulouse and Amsterdam. From 1995 to 2005, he served as a lawyer with the U.S. State Department, handling International Humanitarian Law, the use of force, international organisations, nuclear nonproliferation, international claims, and U.S. foreign relations law. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Legal Adviser at the American Embassy in The Hague. He has published widely on International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, International Justice, and the use of force, and has published essays and op-eds in such publications as Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Among his recent ICC-related writings are: The Council and the Court, Special Report of the UC Irvine School of Law International Justice Clinic (2013), available at http://councilandcourt.org/; America’s Honeymoon with the ICC, Foreign Affairs: Snapshot, April 17, 2013; Justice Beyond The Hague: Supporting the Prosecution of International Crimes in National Courts, Council on Foreign Relations Special Report (June 2011); and Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court? Foreign Affairs, May/June 2011. Prof. Kaye is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of a variety of organisations, including the California South Committee of Human Rights Watch, the Democracy Council of California, the American Society of International Law (2010-2013), the International Justice Resource Center, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the Syrian Justice and Accountability Center.