Professor Brown received his B.A. from Harvard University, his J.D. from Columbia
University, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva,
Switzerland. At Columbia, he was managing editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.
He has published a book on the law and politics of the World Bank, as well as articles on
international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal
tribunals, and international trade law.
Professor Brown is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board
of Directors of Amnesty International, USA. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of
the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (CEELI).
He served as a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, and participated in the 1998 Rome Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment
of an International Criminal Court as Legal Advisor to the Republic of Trinidad and
Tobago. In 1999 and 2000, he was a public member of the United States Delegation to the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. He has recently led or
participated in human rights fact-finding missions to several countries including Haiti,
Bahrain and Malawi.
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