{"id":374,"date":"2018-01-22T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ielrblog.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2018-01-22T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:57:24","slug":"case-western-reserve-university-international-criminal-law-ll-m-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/22\/case-western-reserve-university-international-criminal-law-ll-m-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Western Reserve University International Criminal Law LL.M Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Michael P. Scharf,\u00a0 Dean of Case Western University School of Law:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

As documented by the developments covered in the WCPW e-newsletter, international criminal law has become one of the fastest growing and highest profile areas of law.\u00a0 Taught by leading experts in the field, the Case Western Reserve University LL.M in International Criminal law will provide individuals who hold a degree in law with an in-depth knowledge of international criminal law and procedure, international humanitarian law, and national security law, and will equip them to practice international criminal law before international tribunals or national courts.<\/p>\n

Now in its tenth year, there are seven unique aspects of the Case Western Reserve International Criminal Law LLM, which I\u2019d like to especially call to your attention:<\/p>\n

First, Case Western Reserve is known around the world for the strength of its international criminal law program. \u00a0Program faculty include a former State Department official, a former Senior Counsel at the IMF, the former head of the International Branch in the Navy Judge Advocate General\u2019s International and Operational Law Division, a Senior Counsel for Human Rights First – Law and Security Program, a Senior Coast Guard lawyer, and the senior trial attorney in the Charles Taylor trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone.\u00a0 Reflecting the strength of our program, in 2005, the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone nominated our War Crimes Research initiative for the Nobel Peace Prize, and in 2008 the Case Western team won the World Championship round of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.\u00a0 Based on a survey of international law professors, the 2018 rankings issue of US News and World Report<\/em> ranked our program among the top twelve international law programs in the nation, and International Jurist<\/em> magazine ranks our LLM program best in the country.<\/p>\n

Second, our International Criminal Law LL.M Program is designed as an elite and intimate program, with enrollment limited to approximately five LL.M students per year.\u00a0 We provide generous scholarships and one of those students may be a full-scholarship \u201cDistinguished Visiting Jurist,\u201d whose presence is designed to enhance the program and facilitate networking. \u00a0\u00a0Our last Distinguished Jurist was Duncan Gaswaga, currently a judge on Uganda\u2019s High Court War Crimes Chamber.<\/p>\n

Third, among the dozen international criminal law-related courses we offer, you can enroll in the War Crimes Research Lab, taught by former Chief Trial Attorney of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Jim Johnson, in which students write research memoranda at the request of international war crimes tribunals, piracy courts, the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions, and INTERPOL on cutting edge issues pending before those institutions.<\/p>\n

Fourth, as part of the program, our International Criminal Law LL.M students may receive a semester\u2019s worth of credit by interning at one of the international war crimes tribunals, a Piracy Court, UNODC, the General Counsel\u2019s Office of the U.S. Coast Guard, or INTERPOL in the spring semester.<\/p>\n

Fifth, our international Criminal Law LL.M students are invited to be editors of War Crimes Prosecution Watch<\/em>, the e-newsletter that goes out every two weeks to war crimes prosecutors, judges, and more than 15,000 experts in the field.<\/p>\n

Sixth, we host several major lectures and an annual international criminal law-related symposium, which bring dozens of leading experts in the field to the Law School each year.\u00a0 Recent speakers have included: Sean Murphy, ILC Special Rapporteur for the Convention on Crimes Against Humanity; Brenda Hollis, Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; Stephen Rapp, US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues; Hon. Christine Van den Wyngaert, Judge of the ICC; Sir Christopher Greenwood, UK Judge on the International Court of Justice; Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Robert Petit, Chief Prosecutor of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY and ICTR and author of the Goldstone Commission Report on Gaza; William Schabas, Commissioner on the International Truth Commission for Sierra Leone; Fatua Bensuada , the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC; and the late Cherif Bassiouni who was known as \u201cthe father of international criminal law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, we have placed 135 students in externships at the six international war crimes tribunals, and our alumni include individuals who have served as a member of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a member of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Cambodia Tribunal; a Legal Adviser to the Chambers of the International Criminal Court; a member of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon; a prosecutor in the Office of Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions; a lawyer at INTERPOL; several distinguished law professors, and the Judge Advocate General of the US Navy Reserve.<\/p>\n

To apply for the International Criminal Law LLM Degree, click: http:\/\/law.case.edu\/Academics\/Degrees\/LLM\/LLM-in-International-Criminal-Law<\/a><\/p>\n

To sample one of our International Criminal Law courses (offered free on demand by Coursera), click: https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/learn\/international-criminal-law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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