PATHBREAKER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW AND MENTOR A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR LEILA NADYA SADAT.

• Author: Osofsky, Hari M.

It is my great honor and pleasure to contribute to this special volume of the Washington University Global Studies Review celebrating Professor Leila Nadya Sadat. My contribution will be both professional and personal. Professor Sadat has made pathbreaking contributions to international criminal law. She is a leading scholar who has also had a practical impact on the practice of international law. She has also made a difference in the development of international scholars through her mentoring, and I have a debt of gratitude to Professor Sadat for providing me with critically needed mentorship and sponsorship at an early stage of my career.

Professor Sadat is a prolific scholar whose over sixty books and articles have made an important impact on our understanding of international and comparative law, and particularly international criminal law, for over a quarter of a century. Five of her publications across different areas of international and comparative criminal law have received awards from the International Association of Penal Law (American Branch) as outstanding book or article of the year, including Crimes Against Humanity in the Modern Age (2014), (1) Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity (2011), (2) The Nuremberg Paradox (2010), (3) Exile, Amnesty and International Law (2006), (4) and The International Criminal Court and the Transformation of International Law (2003). (5) She is admitted to the French bar as an avocat and has a deep understanding of both U.S. and French law, allowing her to make to major contributions in the field of comparative law and comparative international law. (6)

Professor Sadat is not simply a leading scholar of international criminal law. She also translates her scholarly insights into making a public policy impact. Professor Sadat has played foundational role in helping to develop international law on crimes against humanity. She founded the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative in 2008, which drafted the world's first global convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. (7) She also has served since 2012 as a Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor, advising the ICC Prosecutor on legal issues relating to the commission of crimes against humanity at all stages of ICC prosecutorial procedure, including Preliminary Examinations, Investigations, Trial, and Appeals. Her extensive scholarship on crimes against humanity, which provided the groundwork...