Jane Stromseth

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Jane Stromseth is Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law at Georgetown University. She was formerly the Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Office of Global Criminal Justice at the U.S. Department of State (2013 to 2015).  She is a member of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Council on International Law, and she formerly served at the U.S. Department of Defense as Senior Adviser on Rule of Law and International Humanitarian Policy, and at the National Security Council as a Director for Multilateral Affairs.  Stromseth previously served as a law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and to U.S. District Court Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer.  She received her doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and her law degree from Yale Law School.