Professor Ruti Teitel is a Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Global Governance (2010-2013). A cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, she received her J.D. from Cornell Law School and was a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. Professor Teitel is an internationally recognised authority on international human rights, transitional justice, and comparative constitutional law. Her extensive body of scholarly writing is published in many law reviews, and she has contributed a number of book chapters to published volumes relating to law and politics. She also writes on human rights issues for a broader audience, having published in The New York Times. Her book, Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000), examines the 20th century transitions to democracy in many countries while her forthcoming book, Humanity’s Law (OUP 2011), explores a paradigm shift in the global rule of law. She has taught at Yale, Fordham and Tel Aviv Law Schools, as well as Columbia University’s Politics Department and its School of International and Public Affairs.
Trying individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression