EXPERT ADVISORY
New York, NY (February 12, 2002) -- New York Law
School Professor Ruti Teitel, a nationally recognized authority on international
law and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is available to offer expert
commentary on the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic now
before the International Criminal Court at the Hague. In the historic trial, the
first time a national leader faces war crimes charges in an international court,
Milosevic is accused of overseeing a Serbian campaign of "ethnic cleansing"
through the murder of thousands of Muslims in Croatia. "The Milosevic trial is
very relevant to the current war on terrorism," says Professor Teitel. "It
raises many of the issues that the international community will face in the
prosecution of state-sponsored terrorism." Professor Teitel has been a regular
commentator for Court TV regarding the Bosnian war crimes trials conducted by
the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Professor Teitel is the Ernst C. Stiefel Professor
of Comparative Law at New York Law School, where she also teaches international
human rights and constitutional law. She is also a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations and a frequent Court TV Commentator on Bosnian War Crimes
Trials. She is an expert on Eastern European and Latin American
post-totalitarian societies and the author of Transitional Justice
(Oxford, 2000) and an extensive body of scholarly writing on human rights and
constitutionalism published in some of the country's most prestigious legal
journals, including the Yale Journal of International Law and
the Columbia Human Rights Law Journal.
A graduate of Georgetown University and Cornell Law
School, Prof. Teitel was a Senior Fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center
for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. She is a member of the
Steering Committee of Human Rights Watch Europe, as well as a member of the
Executive Advisory Board of the Holocaust/Human Rights Research Project of
Boston College Law School. In 1993, she received a grant from the United States
Institute of Peace.
Professor Teitel can be reached at (212) 431-2322
or by mobile phone at (646) 209-7629. In the alternative, please contact Alta
Levat in the Office of Public Affairs at New York Law School at (212) 431-2325.
About New York Law School
Founded in 1891, New
York Law School, www.nyls.edu, is one of the
oldest independent law schools in the country. Located near the centers of law,
government, and finance in Manhattan's historic TriBeCa district, the Law School
enrolls 1,400 students and offers the course of study leading to the J.D. degree
through full-time day and part-time day and evening divisions.
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