Noah Weisbord
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Noah Weisbord holds undergraduate degrees in science and social work and law degrees in common and civil law from McGill University, graduating with great distinction in each program. He also holds masters degrees in social work and law (McGill University, Harvard Law School), and is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at Harvard Law School on the crime of aggression in international criminal law. His primary research interest is in the emerging field of international justice.
Professor Weisbord was law clerk to Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Prior to working at the International Criminal Court, he traveled to Rwanda to study gacaca--community-based genocide trials inspired by an indigenous justice tradition. He wrote two masters' dissertations on the tension between the values of justice and healing within the gacaca process. Professor Weisbord is currently a delegate to the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression established by the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC. The working group is tasked with defining the crime in the lead-up to the ICC's first review conference in 2010.
Representative publications include "You're Under Arrest, Mr. President," an op-ed in The International Herald Tribune; "A Dilemma in Northern Uganda; When Peace and Justice Clash," also published in The International Herald Tribune; and "Prosecuting Aggression," published in the Winter 2008 issue of the Harvard International Law Journal, which forecasts prosecutorial challenges under competing formulations of the definition of the crime of aggression.
