The authors in this book represent three broad disciplinary and professional perspectives—practice at the Tribunal, international legal scholarship, and expert engagement with the former Yugoslavia. Within these broad categories, individual authors bring a number of distinct specializations to the discussion: journalism, history, international relations, and anthropology, as well as legal practice and scholarship. Each writes in his individual capacity.
Evelyn Anoya (Registry, Special Tribunal for Lebanon)
Evelyn Anoya is the Registry Legal Adviser at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Ms. Anoya has worked at the ICTY since September 2001, holding various positions within the Registry. From 2002 to 2004, she was the Registry Court Officer for Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milošević. After 2004, she was assigned as the Registry Pro Se Legal Liaison Officer on the Milošević case, acting as a liaison between the Court and the self-represented Accused. Most recently she has been a Legal Coordinator, appointed to be the Registry focal point on issues related to the transfer of cases and the requests for assistance submitted by state courts.
Judith Armatta (legal consultant and author)
Judith Armatta is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and consultant on humanitarian and rule of law issues. She has reported on international war crimes trials at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court, where she covered the Taylor and Lubanga trials for Open Society Justice Initiative, and the ICTY, where she served as legal liaison to the Tribunal for the Coalition for International Justice between 2002 and 2005. Her reporting has also appeared in numerous newspapers. She is the author of Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic (Duke University Press, 2010). Armatta has directed rule of law projects in Serbia and Montenegro for the American Bar Association’s Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI now ABA-ROLI), and a Kosovo war crimes documentation project in Macedonia for the Coalition for International Justice and ABA/CEELI. Her recent work includes consultation on legal education in the West Bank and an assessment of Iraqis’ access to legal redress for DPK Consulting and the QED Group.
Kelly Dawn Askin (Open Society Justice Initiative)
Dr. Kelly Dawn Askin is senior legal officer for International Justice in the Open Society Justice Initiative since 2004. In 2004–05, she was Fulbright New Century Scholar on the Global Empowerment of Women. Askin served as a legal advisor to the judges of the ICTY and ICTR from 2000 to 2002, and for nearly 20 years has served as an expert consultant, legal advisor, and international law trainer to prosecutors, judges, and registry at the ICTY, ICTR, ICC, the Serious Crimes Unit in East Timor, the SCSL, and the ECCC. Askin’s books include War Crimes against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals (Martinus Nijhoff, 1997) and the three-volume treatise Women and International Human Rights Law (Transnational Publishers, 1999, 2001, 2002, coeditor), and she has authored over 50 articles and book chapters on ICL, IHL, and international justice. Since 1995, Askin has taught or served as a visiting scholar at Notre Dame, American University’s Washington College of Law, Harvard, Yale, and Oxford. In 2005 she was awarded the Prominent Women in International Law award by the American Society of International Law. She serves on the executive board of the American Branch of the International Law Association, the International Judicial Academy, and International Criminal Law Services.
Klaus Bachmann (University of Social Sciences and Humanities—Warsaw)
Klaus Bachmann is Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities—Warsaw. He was previously professor of political science at the University of Wrocław. Bachmann worked for many years as a foreign correspondent in Central and Eastern Europe for various newspapers, principally Die Presse, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, and Basler Zeitung, covering the transition process in Poland and neighboring states. Between 2001 and 2005 he observed and reported on the Plavšić and Milošević trials as a freelance correspondent in Brussels and The Hague for these same papers. Bachmann specializes in European integration and transitional justice, and has published extensively on dealing with the past in Germany, Poland, and the former Yugoslavia, and on international criminal tribunals. Bachmann holds an MA in history from the University of Vienna, a PhD from Warsaw University, and his habilitation from the University of Wrocław. He has been a visiting professor at Vienna, Bordeaux, Stellenbosch, and Renmin universities, and held a research grant at Johns Hopkins University.
M. Cherif Bassiouni (DePaul University)
Dr. M. Cherif Bassiouni is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law Emeritus at DePaul University and President Emeritus of the International Human Rights Law Institute. He is President of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences at Siracusa. He is the author of 37 books and editor of 45 volumes on a variety of legal topics. Prof. Bassiouni was first the Special Rapporteur and then Chairman of the United Nations Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to Security Council 780 (1992) to Investigate Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Former Yugoslavia. In 1998 he was Chairman of the Drafting Committee for the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (1998). From 2004 to 2005, he was Independent Expert on Human Rights in Afghanistan, and has held a number of other positions with the United Nations. In 1999 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and has received numerous Author Biographies other awards and orders of merit, including the Legion d’Honneur. Bassiouni holds an LL.B. from the University of Cairo, a JD from Indiana University, an LL.M. from the John Marshall School of Law, and an SJD from George Washington University, as well as numerous honorary degrees.
Florian Bieber (University of Graz)
Dr. Florian Bieber is Professor for Southeast European Studies/Professor für Südosteuropa at the Centre for Southeast European Studies/Kompetenzzentrum Südosteuropa, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz. Previously he was a Lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent. Between 2001 and 2006, he worked in Belgrade and Sarajevo for the European Centre for Minority Issues. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University and the Interdisciplinary Master in East European Studies, University of Bologna and taught at the Regional Masters Program for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sarajevo and the University of Graz. In 2009 he held the Luigi Einaudi Chair at Cornell University. His research interests include institutional design in multiethnic states, nationalism and ethnic conflict, and the political systems of South Eastern Europe. He is the author of Nationalism in Serbia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milošević (Lit Verlag, in German) and Post-War Bosnia: Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector (Palgrave), and editor or coeditor of four books on South Eastern Europe. He is editor in chief of Nationalities Papers.
Gideon Boas (Monash University)
Dr. Gideon Boas is an Associate Professor on the Faculty of Law at Monash University and a barrister. A former clerk in Chambers at the ICTY, where he served on the Milošević trial and on the Rules Committee, Boas is the author of The Milošević Trial: Lessons for the Conduct of Complex International Proceedings (Cambridge 2007).
Carla Del Ponte (former Chief Prosecutor, ICTY and ICTR)
Carla Del Ponte was the former Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY from 1999 to 2008 and the ICTR from 1999 to 2003. After leaving the Tribunal, she served as Ambassador of the Swiss Federation to Argentina. Ambassador Del Ponte was previously attorney general in Switzerland, involved in prominent organized crime investigations. She is the author, with Chuck Sudetic, of Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity (Other Press, 2009).
Jasna Dragović-Soso (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Jasna Dragović-Soso is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Goldsmiths, University of London. Previously she worked as a Research Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She is the author of “Saviours of the Nation”: Serbia’s Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism (Hurst and McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002) and the coeditor of State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia’s Dissolution with Professor Lenard J. Cohen (Purdue University Press, 2008). She has also written on intellectuals and dissent, nationalism, international intervention, and state dissolution in the former Yugoslavia, as well as transitional justice and the construction of memory in the post-Yugoslav space.
Mark A. Drumbl (Washington and Lee University)
Mark Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington & Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the University’s Transnational Law Institute. Prof. Drumbl has held visiting appointments on a number of law faculties, including Oxford, Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Trinity College-Dublin, Melbourne, Sydney, and Ottawa. He has published extensively on public international law, international criminal law, and transitional justice, and is the author of Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (Oxford, 2012), and Atrocity, Punishment and International Law (Cambridge, 2007), which received commendations from the International Association of Criminal Law, the American Association of Law Schools, and the American Society of International Law. He holds degrees in law and politics from McGill University, University of Toronto, and Columbia University.
Alexander K.A. Greenawalt (Pace University)
Alexander Greenawalt is Associate Professor at Pace University School of Law. His scholarship focuses on international law, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law. He previously worked for the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, the Legal Advisor’s Office of the U.S. State Department, and the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He was also a clerk to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Professor Greenawalt conducted human rights work for various nongovernmental organizations in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina during and after the 1991–95 war. He spent the 1995–96 academic year at the University of Zagreb as the recipient of a Fulbright Grant. Professor Greenawalt holds a JD from Columbia Law School, an MA in history from Yale University, and an AB in Religion from Princeton University.
Florence Hartmann (former spokeswoman for the OTP)
Florence Hartmann is a journalist and author. She first worked with Le Monde covering the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as its permanent correspondent. In 2000, she became the ICTY/ICTR chief prosecutor’s spokesperson and Balkan advisor. She is the author of Milosevic, la diagonale du fou (Denoël/Gallimard, 1999) and Paix et Châtiment (Flammarion, 2007). She has also published a number of works pertaining to the impact of the ICTY, including The ICTY and the EU Conditionality, Chaillot Paper n°116, Paris; The Impact of the ICTY on Local Societies (report for the European Parliament); Vital Genocide Documents Concealed (Bosnian Institute, London); and Srebrenica through the ICTY’s Eyes (European Courier). She now works as a freelance journalist. She is a member of the executive board of the Humanitarian Law Centre in Belgrade.
Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Dr. Denisa Kostovicova is a Senior Lecturer in Global Politics at the Government Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (Routledge, 2005) and coeditor of several books: Transnationalism in the Balkans (Routledge 2008, with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic); Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (Ashgate 2009, with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic); Bottom-Up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, with Marlies Glasius); Author Biographies and Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and James Ker-Lindsay). Kostovicova has held Junior Research Fellowships at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Linacre College, Oxford. She has a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an MA from Central European University.
Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina; University of Ljubljana)
Vjollca Krasniqi is a lecturer in Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Prishtina., and a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Work, University of Ljubljana. She has a MSc. in Gender, Development, and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her recent publications include: The Politics of Remembrance and Belonging: Life Histories of Albanian Women in Kosova (CRGP 2006, with Nita Luci); “The Gender Politics of Post-War Reconstruction in Kosova,” in Christine Eifler and Ruth Seifert (eds.), Gender Dynamics and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (Lang Publishers 2009); “Gender and the Politics of Peacekeeping,” in Jelisaveta BlagojeviĆ, Katerina Kolozova, and Svetlana Slapšak (eds.), Gender and Identity: Theories from and/or on Southeastern Europe (Athena 2006); and “Imagery, Gender and Power: The Politics of Representation in Post-War Kosova,” in Feminist Review (2007). Krasniqi has also been active in the women’s movement in the Balkans.
Christopher K. Lamont (University of Groningen)
Christopher Lamont is an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of Groningen. Previously, Lamont was a Research Councils of the UK postdoctoral fellow in the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster and taught at the University of Glasgow. Lamont is the author International Criminal Justice and the Politics of Compliance (Ashgate 2010) and a coeditor of a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies on post-Tuđman Croatia (2010). He was a Fulbright fellow affiliated with the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb from 2002 to 2003. Lamont holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow, MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and BA. from the University of Mississippi.
Frédéric Mégret (McGill University)
Frédéric Mégret is an Assistant Professor of Law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, the Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and the Director of the McGill Clinic for the Sierra Leone Special Court. Before joining McGill, he was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto and a research associate at the European University Institute in Florence. He has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, assisted defense counsel before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and was a member of the French delegation at the Rome conference for the International Criminal Court. His work on international criminal justice focuses on its legal-theoretical dimensions. Mégret authored Le Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (Pedone 2002) and coedited the second edition of The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) with Professor Philip Alston.
Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics and Politics Science)
Dr. Jens Meierhenrich is Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Meierhenrich served in Trial Chamber II at the ICTY, and recently was a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court, where he worked with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Court’s first Prosecutor. He previously taught for a decade at Harvard University. Meierhenrich is the author of several books, including Genocide: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Genocide: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2013); Lawfare (Cambridge University Press, 2014); and The Rationality of Genocide, The Structure of Genocide, and The Culture of Genocide (all forthcoming from Princeton University Press). His book The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) won the American Political Science Association’s 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the “best book published in the United States during the previous year in politics, government, or international affairs.” Meierhenrich received his DPhil in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University)
Christian Axboe Nielsen is Associate Professor of Southeast European Studies and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at the Department for Culture and Society of Aarhus University (Denmark). He has previously worked as a Research Officer for the Leadership Research Team of the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY, and as an analyst for the Investigations Division of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He has testified as a Prosecution expert witness on the Bosnian Serb police in Krajišnik, Stanišić/Župljanin, and Karadžić and is scheduled to testify in Stanišić/Simatović. He holds a PhD in Eastern European History from Columbia University. His research focuses on Balkan history, and on the intersection between history, international criminal justice, and epistemology.
Vesna Pešić (Member of Parliament, Serbia)
Dr. Vesna Pešić is a member of the Serbian Parliament, elected in 1994, 2007, and 2008. She founded the Center for Antiwar Action (now the Center for Peace and Democratic Development) in 1991 and still serves as President of the Board. She was a founder, in 1992, and first president of the Civic Alliance of Serbia, the only nonnationalistic political party in Serbia at the time. She was one of the three leaders of the opposition Coalition Zajedno formed in 1997, and first coordinator of the Alliance for Change created in 1998. Dr. Pešić served as Serbia and Montenegro’s ambassador to Mexico from 2001 to 2005. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships: the National Endowment for Democracy’s biennial award for democracy (1993); a Jennings Randolph fellowship at the United States Institute of Peace (1994); the Sakharov Freedom Prize (1997); the W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award from the National Democratic Institute (1997); and the Theodor-Haecker-Preis für politischen Mut und Aufrichtigkeit from Esslingen am Neckar (2001). She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Dr. Pešić received her PhD in sociology from the Law Faculty of University of Belgrade. From 1978 to 1991 she was Professor of Sociology in the University of Belgrade’s School of Social Work, and from 1991 to 2001 she was Senior Research Fellow Author Biographies in its Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. She has published several books, chapters in edited volumes, and articles on nationalism, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and democracy in Serbia.
Marko Prelec (International Crisis Group)
Marko Prelec is Director of the Balkans Project at International Crisis Group. From 1999 to 2005 he was a Research Officer with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and was the senior researcher on the Milošević trial from 2002 through 2004. From 2005 to 2007 he was head of the investigation and analysis section within the Special Department for War Crimes at the Bosnian State Prosecutor’s Office. He holds a PhD in history from Yale University and has taught at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Yuval Shany (Hebrew University)
Prof. Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves as the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, as a director in the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University and the Project on International Courts and Tribunals, as a member of the steering committee of the DOMAC project (assessing the impact of international courts on domestic criminal procedures in mass atrocity cases), and as a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Shany has degrees from the Hebrew University (LL.B, cum laude), New York University (LL.M.) and the University of London (PhD), and he has published a large number of books and articles on international courts, arbitration tribunals, human rights, and international humanitarian law. Shany has taught in a number of law schools in Israel, and has been a research fellow at Harvard and Amsterdam University, and a visiting professor on the law faculties of Georgetown, Michigan, Sydney, and Columbia universities.
Veton Surroi (KOHA Media Group)
Veton Surroi is a publicist and publisher in the KOHA Media Group in Prishtina. He is the Chair of the Board of the Foreign Policy Club, an NGO in Kosovo dealing with international policy. Surroi founded KOHA Ditore, the largest independent newspaper in Kosovo, as well as the independent national television station KTV. A prominent political and civil society activist during the 1990s, he participated in the 1999 peace talks and was one of the signatories of the Rambouillet Accords. In his capacity as head of the ORA party and Member of Parliament, from October 2005 to December 2007 he was a member of the Unity Team of Kosovo, which negotiated the independence of the country. Mr. Surroi is a recipient of IFJ Award of the Year (2000) as well the Geuzen Award and the National Endowment of Democracy Award.
Safia Swimelar (Elon University)
Safia Swimelar is an associate professor of political science and international studies at Elon University where she teaches courses in international relations, European politics, human rights, and international law. Prof. Swimelar holds a master’s from the University of Texas-Austin and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, both in political science. In 2006–07, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sarajevo, where she investigated the role of the international community in human rights promotion; she has recently published an article on education, nationalism, and security in Bosnia in the journal Ethnopolitics.
Frances Trix (Indiana University)
Frances Trix is Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington, an affiliate with the Russian and East European Institute at IU, and a Research Associate of the Russian and East European Institute of the University of Michigan. Her main research interests are Islam in the Balkans, Kosova, and migration. She studied Albanian at the University of Prishtina 1987–1988, and has conducted extended research in Kosova since the war. Recent publications include: The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), and “Kosova: Resisting Expulsion and Striving for Independence” (in S. Ramet, ed., Central and Southeastern Europe since 1989, Cambridge University Press, 2010). Trix has been a Fellow at the Center for Research on Islam in Istanbul, a Research Fulbright Scholar in Istanbul, and most recently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Harmen van der Wilt (University of Amsterdam)
Harmen van der Wilt is a professor at the University of Amsterdam. He studied law at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and defended his PhD thesis on labor rights in Latin America in 1993 at the State University of Maastricht, where he was also an associate professor prior to moving to the University of Amsterdam in 2000. From 1985 to 1986 van der Wilt worked as a legal adviser to the Dutch Association for Refugees. He has also served as an ad litem Judge at the District Court of Roermond. Van der Wilt has published extensively on extradition, terrorism, international criminal tribunals, and substantive international criminal law. In 1999 he received the Edmond Hustinx Prize for excellence in research.
Tibor Várady (Central European University, Emory University, Emeritus)
Tibor Várady is University Professor at the Central European University in Budapest, and Tenured Professor Emeritus at Emory University School of Law. He has taught as a visiting professor at Berkeley, Cornell, the University of Florida, and the Sorbonne, and has given about two hundred individual lectures or series of lectures at other universities in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Prof. Várady has published more than 30 books and about two hundred articles focusing on private international law, public international law, international commercial arbitration, and minority rights. He has acted as the agent of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later of Serbia) before the International Court of Justice in a number of cases arising out of the Yugoslav conflicts, focusing on jurisdictional issues. Prof. Várady received his JD and LL.M at Belgrade University and his SJD at Harvard Law School.
Timothy William Waters (Indiana University)
Timothy William Waters is Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, where he teaches international and comparative law. In 2012–13 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Experienced Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. He previously worked at the ICTY, where he helped draft the Kosovo indictment of Milošević. Waters has also worked with the Open Society Institute, Human Rights Watch, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on issues relating to the former Yugoslavia. He is a member of the advisory board of Nationalities Papers. Waters has his BA from UCLA, a master’s in international affairs from Columbia, with a specialization in East Central Europe, and a JD from Harvard.
Clint Williamson (Chief Prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force)
Clint Williamson is the Chief Prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force. In 2010 he was appointed Special Expert to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. From July 2006 to September 2009, he served as the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. From 2003 to 2006, he served on the National Security Council in a variety of capacities: as the Acting Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Relief, Stabilization, and Development; as the Director for Stability Operations on the NSC staff; and in Baghdad as the Senior Adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of Justice from April to July 2003. Prior to his assignment at the White House, Ambassador Williamson served as the Director of the Department of Justice in the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) from late 2001 through 2002 and as a Trial Attorney at the ICTY from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice Organized Crime Section and as an Assistant District Attorney in New Orleans. Ambassador Williamson holds a JD from Tulane University and a BA from Louisiana Tech University.