Cherif Bassouni
Cherif Bassiouni is a United Nations war crimes expert to say the least...
Cherif who was born in Egypt has done so much already as he is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago since 1964. His legal education was in Egypt, France, Switzerland and the United States where he received the following degrees: LL.B. University of Cairo; J.D. Indiana University; LL.M. John Marshall Law School; S.J.D. George Washington University.
However, he has held many other positions including:
• Fulbright-Hays Professor of International Criminal Law at the University of Freiburg, Germany in 1970
• Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School in 1971
• Non-resident Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Cairo since 1996, and was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC in 1972.
• Secretary General of the International Association of Penal Law (Internationale Association De Droit Penal) (IADP) from 1974-1989
• Dean of ISISC (1976–1988)
• President of the Istituto Superiore Internazionale di Scienze Criminali (International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences) (ISISC) in Siracusa, Italy since 1988
• President of the IADP from 1989-2004, and is currently the Honorary President of IADP
• President of the university's International Human Rights Law Institute (1990–2006; 2007–09)
• Frequent lecturer at universities in the US and abroad.
• He is admitted to the practice of law in Illinois, Washington, DC, the United States Supreme Court, and the Second, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits and the United States Court of Military Appeals.
• He is also admitted to practice before the Egyptian Supreme Court.
Not only all this but his talents have also led him elsewhere, as he is the author of 27 and editor of 48 books on International Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, Human Rights, and U.S. Criminal Law; and the author of 240 articles published in law journals and books in the U.S. and other countries that have been written in Arabic, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
It is people like this that make one proud to be an Egyptian, so keep up the good work and make Egyptian appreciated and respected for what they are around the world….
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