Prof. Mark A. Drumbl
Washington & Lee University School of Law

Mark Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington & Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the University's Transnational Law Institute. He has held visiting appointments on the law faculties of Oxford University (University College), Vanderbilt University, University of Ottawa, and Trinity College-Dublin. In 2008, he will serve as Professeur invité at the Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and as Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Drumbl's research and teaching interests include public international law, global environmental governance, international criminal law, postconflict justice, transnational legal process, and contracts. His book, Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which has received critical acclaim, rethinks -- in theory and in practice -- how individuals who perpetrate genocide and crimes against humanity should be punished.

Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law received the 2007 Book of the Year Award by the International Association of Criminal Law (U.S. national section). Reviews of Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law appear in the legal literature, including in the Buffalo Law Review, Jura Gentium, Michigan Law Review, Journal of International Criminal Justice, American Journal of International Law, Chinese Journal of International Law, International Journal of Transitional Justice, Melbourne Journal of International Law, and N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol.; H-Net Book Review; with briefer reviews in the human rights and political science literature.

Drumbl's articles have appeared in the Collective Violence and Individual Punishment: The Criminality of Mass Atrocity, 99 Nw. U. L. Rev. 539 (2005) received the Association of American Law Schools Outstanding Scholarly Papers Prize. His work on Rwanda has been reviewed as "exemplary" in its treatment of "the possibilities of the coexistence of victims and survivors within the same society after the event" by the Times Literary Supplement in its Learned Journals review.

Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Drumbl was judicial clerk to Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada. His practice experience includes international arbitration, commercial litigation, and he was appointed co-counsel for the Canadian Chief-of-Defense-Staff before the Royal Commission investigating military wrongdoing in the UN Somalia Mission. Professor Drumbl has served as an expert in ATCA litigation in the U.S. federal courts (expert for the successful plaintiffs in Almog v. Arab Bank, 2007 WL 214433 (E.D.N.Y., 2007)), as defense counsel in the Rwandan genocide trials, has consulted with various organizations including the International Center for Transitional Justice, and has taught international law in Pakistan, Italy, and Brazil. Prior to joining Washington & Lee, he served on the faculties of Columbia University, School of Law, as Associate-in-Law, and the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.

Education
LL.M., J.S.D. Columbia University, 1998, 2002
M.A., J.D., University of Toronto, summa cum laude, 1994
Institut d'études politiques de Paris/McGill University, 1991
B.A., McGill University (first class honors), 1989