Diane Orentlicher, Professor of International Law at American University, has been
described by the Washington Diplomat as “one of the world’s leading authorities on human
rights law and war crimes tribunals.” She has lectured and published widely on issues of
transitional justice, international criminal law and other areas of public international
law, and has testified before the United States Senate and House on a range of issues
relating to both domestic human rights laws and U.S. foreign policy. Professor
Orentlicher has served in various public positions, including as the Deputy for War
Crimes Issues in the U.S. Department of State (2009-2011); United Nations Independent
Expert on Combating Impunity (on appointment by the UN Secretary-General) and Special
Advisor to the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (on secondment from the U.S. Department of State). 

Professor Orentlicher is a frequent commentator on television and in the print media on
issues relating to war crimes trials and other issues of transitional justice. She has
appeared on various news programs on NBC, ABC, BBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, MSNBC and other
broadcast stations, and has published opinion pieces and been quoted in the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune and other papers. 

Military and Veterans Law

International Law Colloquia, Spring 2006 Series (with Roger P. Alford, Laura A. Dickinson, Mark A. Drumbl, Karen Knop, Brad R. Roth, and Edward T. Swaine), Colloquia (2006)

Spring 2006 Presenters:

February 10: Laura A. Dickinson (University of Connecticut School of Law), Democracy...

 

International Law

International Law Colloquia, Spring 2006 Series (with Roger P. Alford, Laura A. Dickinson, Mark A. Drumbl, Karen Knop, Brad R. Roth, and Edward T. Swaine), Colloquia (2006)

Spring 2006 Presenters:

February 10: Laura A. Dickinson (University of Connecticut School of Law), Democracy...

 

Criminal Law and Procedure

International Law Colloquia, Spring 2006 Series (with Roger P. Alford, Laura A. Dickinson, Mark A. Drumbl, Karen Knop, Brad R. Roth, and Edward T. Swaine), Colloquia (2006)

Spring 2006 Presenters:

February 10: Laura A. Dickinson (University of Connecticut School of Law), Democracy...

 

Jurisdiction

International Law Colloquia, Spring 2006 Series (with Roger P. Alford, Laura A. Dickinson, Mark A. Drumbl, Karen Knop, Brad R. Roth, and Edward T. Swaine), Colloquia (2006)

Spring 2006 Presenters:

February 10: Laura A. Dickinson (University of Connecticut School of Law), Democracy...

 

Constitutional Law

International Law Colloquia, Spring 2006 Series (with Roger P. Alford, Laura A. Dickinson, Mark A. Drumbl, Karen Knop, Brad R. Roth, and Edward T. Swaine), Colloquia (2006)

Spring 2006 Presenters:

February 10: Laura A. Dickinson (University of Connecticut School of Law), Democracy...

 

Human Rights Law

International Law Colloquia, Spring 2006 Series (with Roger P. Alford, Laura A. Dickinson, Mark A. Drumbl, Karen Knop, Brad R. Roth, and Edward T. Swaine), Colloquia (2006)

Spring 2006 Presenters:

February 10: Laura A. Dickinson (University of Connecticut School of Law), Democracy...

 

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Session Five: Expert Panel Discussion on Fighting Impunity (with Jonathan Beynon, Suzanne Jabbour, Duarte Nuno Vieira, and Vivienne Nathanson), Human Rights Brief (2012)
 
Human Rights, Books (2009)
 

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Transcript: Advocacy Before Regional Human Rights Bodies: A Cross-Regional Agenda (with Victor Abramovich, Charlotte de Broutelles, Santiago Canton, Paolo Carozza, Andrew Drzemczewski, Jonathan Fanton, Leonardo Franco, Felipe González, Claudio Grossman, Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Bahame Tom-Mukirya Nyanduga, Fatsah Ouguergouz, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzón, Sergio Garcia Ramirez, Manuel Ventura Robles, and Pablo Saavedra), American University Law Review (2009)