Ken Scott

Ken Scott graduated with honors from both the University of Colorado-Boulder and Harvard Law School and has devoted his career to public interest law.   He served for twelve years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he investigated and prosecuted some of the Justice Department’s largest criminal cases.  In January 1998, Ken moved with his family to The Hague, Netherlands, where he was a senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for fourteen years, successfully investigating and litigating cases against thirteen major war criminals, including a prime minister, defense minister, two army chiefs of staff, the head of military police, a regional governor and an area warlord.   In recognition of his work in the former Yugoslavia, Ken received the Mostar Peace Prize in November 2017 (previous recipients include Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel and Jacques Chirac).   Since returning to Denver in 2011, Ken is engaged in a wide-ranging human rights, war crimes and international criminal law practice.  He is currently a special prosecutor at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, investigating a high-profile obstruction of justice case.  From March 2014 to December 2020, he was the special prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (also in The Hague), investigating and prosecuting obstruction of justice cases. Ken has been extensively involved with South Sudan since March 2014, including as a UN Commissioner on Human Rights in South Sudan.  Most recently, he also served as senior advisor to the international organization Global Rights Compliance, working on South Sudan, and also on the topic of starvation as an international war crime.  He currently consults to the Ukrainian Government on the prosecution of Russian war crimes.  He has served as an instructor or lecturer at the U.S. Air Force Academy, the University of Colorado (both undergraduate and at the Law School) and Regis University, concerning international law, human rights, international courts, international criminal law and constitutional law.