WashU Law James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law Leila Sadat has been appointed to the board of eyeWitness to Atrocities, an initiative founded by the International Bar Association to help digitally document and investigate serious human rights violations and atrocity crimes.
Sadat brings extensive international experience to the role. From 2013 to 2023, she served as special adviser on crimes against humanity to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. In 2022, she was appointed as a U.S. expert to the Moscow Mechanism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has been invoked five times to address human rights abuses since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
She recently completed a three-year fellowship at the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. A leading authority on public international law, international criminal law, human rights, and foreign affairs, Sadat has published more than 180 works and frequently lectures and teaches around the world. She is also thefounder and director of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, which wrote the world’s first treaty on crimes against humanity and launched a global movement to negotiate a new treaty for their prevention and punishment.
Through this appointment, Sadat continues to strengthen WashU Law’s role in shaping international law and the pursuit of justice worldwide.