Professor Leila Nadya Sadat is the Special Adviser to the Prosecutor on Crimes against Humanity. She is currently the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and the Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law. She is also the Director of The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative and the Director and Co-Founder of the Summer Institute for International Law and Policy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Ms Sadat's award-winning publications include, among others, Outstanding Books of the Year Awards for Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity (2011) and The International Criminal Court and the Transformation of International Law (2002). An internationally recognised expert in international criminal law, human rights and public international law, Professor Sadat has been doing pro-bono work for international courts and tribunals, including the ICC, for many years. She is a Vice-President of the International Law Association, American Branch, and created and chaired its International Criminal Court Committee. She recently held the distinguished Alexis de Tocqueville Fulbright Chair at the Université of Cergy Pontoise, and has been a visiting Professor at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Université de Paris II (Assas).
Trying individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression