Kelly Dawn Askin, Esq.
Open Society Justice Initiative

Kelly Dawn Askin currently serves as Senior Legal Officer, International Justice, with Open Society Justice Initiative. She is also a 2004-2005 Fulbright New Century Scholar on the Global Empowerment of Women and Fellow, Yale Law School. Since 1995, Kelly has taught and served as a visiting scholar at Notre Dame, Washington College of Law, Harvard, and Yale. She also served as Executive Director of the International Criminal Justice Institute and American University’s War Crimes Research Office.

Kelly served as a legal advisor to the judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda from 2000-2002, and has also served as an expert consultant, legal advisor, or international law trainer to prosecutors, judges, and registry at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Serious Crimes Unit in East Timor, the International Criminal Court, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

She has lectured in over 65 countries and has published extensively in international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and gender justice; her books include War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals (1997) and the three volume treatise Women and International Human Rights Law (1999, 2001, 2002, co-editor). She serves on the board of several organizations, including the Executive Board of the American Branch of the International Law Association, the International Judicial Academy, International Criminal Law Services, and the International Journal of Criminal Law.

Education
B.S.
J.D.
Ph.D. (law)