Human Rights in Practice: Jane Stromseth

The Human Rights in Practice series gives students the opportunity to engage with international law and human rights practitioners in an informal setting and to learn about diverse career paths in the field.

Jane Stromseth is Professor of Law at Georgetown University where she teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law, justice and accountability for atrocity crimes, and international human rights. From 2013 to 2015, she served at the U.S. Department of State as Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large in the Office of Global Criminal Justice and then as acting head of the office.  She previously served as Senior Adviser on Rule of Law and International Humanitarian Policy at the Department of Defense, where she worked on establishment of the Atrocity Prevention Board, and as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council.  

Dr. Stromseth has authored or co-authored several books and numerous articles on topics including post-conflict justice and rule of law capacity-building.  Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and U.S. District Court Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer.  Dr. Stromseth is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law.  She received her doctorate in International Relations at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and her law degree at Yale.        

Join us for a discussion with Prof. Stromseth on assessing the International Criminal Court.

Seats are limited, please RSVP to Vicky at nguye386@umn.edu.