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Publications | Presentations
Prior to joining John Marshall, Shahram Dana worked at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and as a lecturer at Maastricht University Faculty of Law in the Netherlands. Professor Dana's research focuses on public international law and international criminal justice. He is finishing his first book, International Crime and Punishment: A Theory for International Sentencing, and contributed a chapter to The Criminal Law of Genocide: International, Comparative, and Contextual Aspects in 2007. A frequent lecturer at conferences around the globe, Professor Dana was selected by The Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise to train senior judges, prosecutors, and government officials on crimes against humanity, international criminal law, human rights, and the International Criminal Court. In law school, he received the G. Joseph Tauro Scholar distinction for academic achievement and served on the Boston University International Law Journal. He will teach Criminal Law, Human Rights, and International Criminal Law.
Full Curriculum Vitae
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Books
International Crime & Punishment: Towards a Theory for International Sentencing (book manuscript, forthcoming 2009).
Articles
Beyond Retroactivity to Realizing Justice: A Theory on the Principle of Legality in International Sentencing, SSRN, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1347126 (2009).
Genocide, Reconciliation and Sentencing in the Jurisprudence of the ICTY, in The Criminal Law of Genocide: International, Comparative, and Contextual Aspects (Ralph Henham & Paul Behrens eds.) (Ashgate Publishing Group 2007).
Turning Point in International Justice? in Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals, Vol. XI (A. Klip & G. Sluiter eds.) (Intersentia, Oxford 2007).
The Law of Contempt before the ICTR in Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals, Vol. X (A. Klip & G. Sluiter eds.) (Intersentia, Oxford 2006).
Revisiting the Blaškić Sentence: Some Reflections on the Sentencing Jurisprudence of the ICTY, 4 Int'l Crim. L. Rev. 321-348 (2004).
Presentations
Between Principles & Pragmatism: Recent Trends in Punishing International Crimes presented at the Third Annual Int'l Conference of the Indian Society for Int'l Law, in New Delhi, India, on 11 December 2005.
Reducing Genocide to a Penalty, presented at the International Conference on the Crime of Genocide, in Nottingham, United Kingdom, on1 September 2005.
International Sentencing & Plea Bargaining for Violations of International Humanitarian Law, presented at the Second International Law Conference of the Indian Society for International Law, in New Delhi, India on 14 November 2004.
A Human Rights Perspective on the Punishment of Atrocity Perpetrators, presented at the Annual Netherlands Human Rights Research Conference, in Maastricht, Netherlands, on 14 May 2004.
International Sentencing: Towards a Principled Legal Framework, presented at the Maastricht Center for Human Rights Lecture Series, at Maastricht University, Netherlands, on 19 November 2003.
Can International Law Adequately Respond to Modern Global Challenges: Looking at September 11 and its Aftermath presented at the World Forum Series, in Wienacht, Switzerland on December 2001.
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