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Why Case Western Reserve?

Why Case Western Reserve University?

Last Updated 8/13/2012 9:00:25 AM
  • Case Western Reserve is world-known for the strength of its international criminal law program. In 2005, the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone nominated our War Crimes Research initiative for the Nobel Peace Prize.
     
  • The International Criminal Law specialists on our faculty have worked for the International Tribunals, IMF, UN Counter-Terrorism Task Force, US Department of State, Department of Defense, DOJ; have published fourteen books related to this area of law; have testified before the US Senate and House of Representatives; and have appeared more than 300 times in the national and international media during the past three years.
     
  • Our International Criminal Law LLM Program is designed as an elite and intimate program, with enrollment limited to ten LLM students per year. One of those ten students will be a full-scholarship “Distinguished Visiting Jurist,” whose presence is designed to enhance the program and facilitate networking.
     
  • Case uniquely offers three international criminal law-related Labs (three-credit seminars in which students do work for international and governmental institutions): The War Crimes Research Lab, the Global Financial Integrity Lab, and the Homeland Security Lab.
     
  • International Criminal Law LLM students may participate in the Law School’s unique "International Tribunal externship" program at one of six international war crimes tribunals in the spring semester in lieu of taking twelve credit hours worth of courses.
     
  • Our International Criminal Law LLM students are invited to be editors of War Crimes Prosecution Watch, an e-newsletter that goes out every two weeks to war crimes prosecutors, judges and more than 15,000 experts in the field

  • Case hosts an annual "War Crimes Research Symposium," in which two dozen of the world’s foremost experts in the field participate in panels on cutting edge issues in the field. Recent Symposia have included: "Lawfare," "After Guantanamo," "The ICC and the Crime of Aggression," "Security Detention," "Combating Terrorism Financing," "Torture and the War on Terror," and "Lessons from the Saddam Trial." The Law School also sponsors two international criminal law-related endowed lecture series; recent speakers have included: Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; Philippe Kirsch, President of the International Criminal Court; Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; Robert Petit, Chief Prosecutor of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Brenda Hollis, Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; Stephen Rapp, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues; Eli Rosenbaum, Director of the Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations; Christine Van den Wyngaert, Judge, International Criminal Court; and Geoffrey Robertson, Appeals Judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
     
  • We have placed 89 students in internships with six international war crimes tribunals, and our alumni include an Appeals Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Senior Legal Adviser to the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, two members of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Legal Adviser to the Judges of the Cambodia Tribunal, a prosecutor in the Office of Military Commissions, the newly appointed Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy Reserve, and President Obama’s Chief of Protocol.