Mr. Alan Tieger: “Remarks on expert, overview, policy and pattern witnesses before the ICTY”

Guest lecture:

 

 
 

Mr. Alan Tieger, to the left with Mr. Morten Bergsmo, Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor, at the interim seat of the Court on 4 October 2004.
Mr. Alan Tieger, to the left with Mr. Morten Bergsmo, Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor, at the interim seat of the Court on 4 October 2004.

Mr. Alan Tieger is a Senior Trial Attorney for the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY, where he has directed investigations and prosecutions of political leaders. Mr. Tieger was one of the founding lawyers of the ICTY in 1994 and served as one of the principal trial prosecutors in its first case, Prosecutor v. Tadic.  

Before he began at the ICTY, Mr. Tieger was a senior prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice, specializing in the investigation and prosecution of complex cases of racial violence and police brutality nationwide, including the successful federal prosecution in 1993 of the Los Angeles police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King.  

Mr. Tieger has also served as special counsel on international humanitarian law and war crimes investigations to the United States Department of State and as a consultant to numerous non-governmental organizations on issues of international humanitarian law.