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William Burke-White (USA) is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where he teaches courses on international law, human rights, international courts and institutions, and international financial arbitration.
Prior thereto, he was Lecturer and Senior Special Assistant to Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He has advised the U.S. government on the creation of international criminal accountability mechanisms in the Democratic Republic of Congo and worked with the Government of Cambodia and the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor on the establishment of international criminal tribunals.
Burke-White also served at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and in the international law group at Clifford Chance, L.L.P. in London.
He has written widely on the structure of international legal regimes, the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals, human rights, international criminal law, state financial collapse, and transitional justice. Burke-White holds a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, an M.Phil. in international relations from Cambridge University (where he was J. William Fulbright Scholar), and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College.