Landmark cases from Bosnia\, Rwanda\, and elsewhere around the world have made international criminal law part of our everyday conversations and have attracted a generation of law students to this practice area. But next year may see the lightest trial schedule the m odern international courts have ever had\, as scandals and other challenges limit their work. Join Wasserstein Fellow and former international crimina l prosecutor Arthur Traldi\, as he discusses his own career in international criminal law a nd discusses strategies and challenges for students seeking to build their own international careers.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP below! Open to the HLS community.
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Arthur Traldi is Senior Counsel and Lead International Criminal Law and Human Rights Attorney at Lexpat Gl obal Services\, a Senior Fellow at American University’s Program on Technol ogy\, Law\, and Security\, and an Adjunct Professor at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Arthur’s practice builds on his years of ser vice at international criminal tribunals and subsequent lead roles in inter national investigations.
From 2010-2017\, Arthur served as a Trial At torney in the Office of the Prosecutor at ICTY\, where he led one component of the Ratko Mladic trial. He also served on the Prosecutor v. Vojislav Se selj team and assisted on cases including Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadzic\, Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic. He has also lived and w orked in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Tanzania and worked on international la w issues arising in Iraq\, Syria\, and many other countries.
Before w orking in the Hague\, Arthur clerked for Justice Debra Todd and Judge Arthu r Zulick in Pennsylvania. He holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Universit y Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Wiliam and Mary.
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