Shocking the Conscience of Humanity Gravity and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law

by deGuzman, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780192886972
• ISBN10: 0192886975
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-12-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Margaret deGuzman, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

Professor Margaret M. deGuzman is the James E. Beasley Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University's Beasley School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on the role of international criminal law in the global legal order, with a particular emphasis on the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She has written extensively about international criminal law theory and practice, including topics ranging from the definition of crimes against humanity to crime selection and sentencing at international courts and tribunals. Before joining Temple Law School, Professor deGuzman practiced criminal defense in San Francisco, served as a legal advisor to the Senegal delegation at the Rome Conference of the ICC, was a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, and a Fulbright Scholar in Daru N'Diar, Senegal.