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Tuesday January 06, 2009
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Gregory S. GordonAssistant Professor of Law  Professor Gordon is Director of the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, and teaches in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, international law and international human rights law. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) and Juris Doctor at the University of California at Berkeley. He then served as law clerk to U. S. District Court Judge Martin Pence (D. Haw.). After a stint as a litigator in San Francisco, he worked with the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he served as Legal Officer and Deputy Team Leader for the landmark "media" cases, the first international post-Nuremberg prosecutions of radio and print media executives for incitement to genocide. For this work, Professor Gordon received a commendation from Attorney General Janet Reno for "Service to the United States and International Justice." After his experience at ICTR, he became a white-collar criminal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division. Following a detail as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, he was appointed as the Tax Division's Liaison to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (Pacific Region) for which he helped prosecute large narcotics trafficking rings. Also during this time, he was detailed to Sierra Leone to conduct a post-civil war justice assessment for DOJ's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training. In 2003, he joined the Criminal Division's Office of Special Investigations, where he helped investigate and prosecute Nazi war criminals and modern human rights violators. Professor Gordon has been featured on C-SPAN, NPR and Radio France Internationale as an expert on war crimes prosecution and has lectured on that subject at the U.S. Army J.A.G. School and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library. On behalf of the Ethiopian government, he has trained high-level federal prosecutors in Addis Ababa. His scholarship on international criminal law has been published in leading international journals, such as the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and the Virginia Journal of International Law. He has presented his work at institutions such as Yale University, Georgetown University Law Center and Emory University. On-Line Symposia Professor Gordon teams up with Nobel Institute for Participation in International Law Symposium OpinioJuris reply on "Participation in Virginia Journal of International Law Online Symposium related to incitement to genocide" - April 2008 thread Opinio Juris, "Challenges to Public International Law" Prof. Gordon in Grand Forks Herald article Past drives UND professor's pursuit of tolerance, October 29, 2008 EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENTUniversity of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota Assistant Law Professor, School of Law, Aug. 2006 to present Director, Center for Human Rights & Genocide Studies, Dec. 2007 to present United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Washington, D.C. Senior Trial Attorney, Office of Special Investigations, 2003 to 2006 Trial Attorney, Tax Criminal Enforcement Section, April 1999 to Nov. 2003
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. Special Assistant United States Attorney, July 1999 to Jan. 2000 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Legal Officer and Deputy Team Leader -- Media Crimes Team, 1996 to 1997
Kollender & Sargoy, Los Angeles, CA - 1998 Seyfarth, Shaw, et al., San Francisco, CA - 1994 - 1996 McCutchen, Doyle, et al., San Francisco, CA - 1992 - 1994 United States District Court, Honolulu, Hawaii PUBLICATIONSFrom Incitement to Indictment? Prosecuting Iran's President for Advocating Israel's Destruction and Piecing Together Incitement Law's Emerging Analytical Framework Toward an International Criminal Procedure: Due Process Aspirations and Limitations - pdf format Taking the Paper Trail Instead of Memory Lane: OSI's Use of Ancient Foreign Documents in the Nazi Cases OSI's Expanded Jurisdiction under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 "A War of Media, Words, Newspapers and Television Stations": The ICTR Media Trial Verdict and a New Chapter in the International Law of Hate Speech The Other Shoe Drops: Suits by Employees Discharged for Sexual Harassment A Family Farmer and a Deficient Definition: A Search for Analytic Criteria to Classify Hybrid Property in California Purchase-Money Antideficiency Cases EDUCATIONBoalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany University of Paris at the Sorbonne, Paris, France ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCEYale University, New Haven, Connecticut - Understanding the Challenge of Iran Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Ethiopian Ministry of Justice, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Independence, Missouri George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. Army JAG School, Charlottesville, Virginia Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Early Outreach/Upward Bound, University of California, Berkeley Institut Franco-Américain de Management, Paris, France |
