Jennifer Trahan is Associate Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at N.Y.U. She teaches: International Law; Human Rights; International Criminal Tribunals & their Law; Transitional Justice; and U.S. Use of Force & the “Global War on Terror”, and leads a field intensive class on "Justice in the former Yugoslavia" to The Hague, Bosnia and Serbia. She has served as counsel to the International Justice Program of Human Rights Watch and served as Iraq Prosecutions Consultant to the International Center of Transitional Justice, and consulted on cases before the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She is the author of “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda”, and “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia” and authored numerous law review articles. She served as an NGO observer at the meetings of the ICC's Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression and at the ICC Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda. She has also lectured at Columbia University, Fordham Law School, Brooklyn Law School, The New School, and Salzburg Law School’s Institute on International Criminal Law and spent 10 years in private practice as a litigator at the New York City law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
Trying individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression