Charles Chernor Jalloh is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an active member of the International Criminal Bar serving, inter alia, on the Advisory Panel to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He served as a Legal Counsel in the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Canadian Department of Justice. In the Special Court for Sierra Leone he acted as court-appointed Duty Counsel in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. He also served as an Associate Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court. Mr. Jalloh has published widely on issues of international criminal justice. The Founding Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of Legal Studies, he is the lead editor of the first multi-volume Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Brill), editor of Consolidated Legal Texts of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Brill) and of The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy: The Impact for Africa and International Criminal Law (CUP).
Mr. Jalloh holds a LL.B. and a B.C.L. degrees from McGill University in Montreal (Canada), and a M.St. in International Human Rights Law (with distinction) from Oxford University (UK).