Leila Nadya Sadat

Sadat received her B.A. from Douglass College, her J.D. from Tulane Law School (summa cum laude) and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University School of Law (LLM, summa cum laude) and the University of Paris I – Sorbonne (diplôme d'études approfondies). She is bilingual in French and English.

As a scholar, teacher, and author, Sadat has contributed to the establishment and study of the International Criminal Court (ICC).[6] She was a delegate to the U.N. Preparatory Committee and to the 1998 Diplomatic Conference in Rome which established the ICC, represented the government of Timor-Leste at the 8th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC, and served as a delegate for the International Law Association, American Branch at the 2010 ICC Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda.

Sadat is known for her work in Public International Law and human rights. More recently, she has been invited to write on topics ranging from the U.S. use of drones,[7] the legal categorization of the conflict in Syria,[8] the U.S. war on terror and its classification of others as "unlawful enemy combatants,"[9] "Global Trumpism," [10] the use of force,[11] and the law of crimes against humanity.

From 2001-2003 she served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.[12] She was nominated by then Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt and appointed by Congress.[13] The 9-member Commission was established by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to advise the President and the Department of State on Issues of International Religious Freedom, both generally and with regard to particular countries.

Sadat is the current President of the International Law Association (American Branch),[14] Vice-President of the International Association of Penal Law(AIDP), and is a member of the American Law Institute[15] and the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also served as a member of the Executive Council, Executive Committee, Program Committee and Awards Committee for the American Society of International Law and held leadership roles in the American Society of Comparative Law, including serving as the Book Review Editor for the American Journal of Comparative Law.[16]

Prior to entering law teaching, Sadat practiced law for five years in Paris, France, and clerked for Judge Albert Tate Jr. in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. She was also a stagiaire at the Cour de Cassation and Conseil d'Etat.

Sadat has published more than 100 articles, essays, and books. She also has written many op-eds and is a regular contributor on ASIL Blog and Intlawgrrls Blog. She also authors the blog Windows on the World and contributes to the blog Lex lata, lex ferenda.

• International Law: Cases and Commentary (6th edn, forthcoming) (Leila Nadya Sadat, with Mark Weston Janis and John E. Noyes)
• Seeking Accountability for the Unlawful Use of Force (Leila Nadya Sadat, ed., Cambridge, 2018)
• The Founders(David M. Crane, Leila Nadya Sadat and Michael P. Scharf, eds, Cambridge, 2018)
• Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity (Leila Nadya Sadat, ed., Cambridge 2011)
• The Theory and Practice of International Criminal Law: Essays in Honor of M. Cherif Bassiouni (Leila N. Sadat, Michael P. Scharf, eds., Martinus Nijhoff 2008)
• International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (3rd ed., Carolina, 2006) (with Bassiouni, Paust, et al.)
• The International Criminal Court and the Transformation of International Law: Justice for the New Millennium (Transnational, 2002)
• International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (2nd ed., Carolina, 2000) (with Bassiouni, Paust, et al.)
• Model Draft Statute for the International Criminal Court Based on the Preparatory Committee's Text to the Diplomatic Conference, Rome, June 15-July 17, 1998, 13ter Nouvelles Études Pénales (Leila Sadat Wexler, special ed. 1998)