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Beth Van Schaack

Dr. Beth Van Schaack (@BethVanSchaack) served as Executive Editor of Just Security (until March 2022).

She served as the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Stanford Law School. She formerly served as Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Office of Global Criminal Justice of the U.S. Department of State. She has been a member of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Council on International Law and served on the United States interagency delegation to the International Criminal Court Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda.

Van Schaack was formerly an associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP. She also has served as Acting Executive Director of The Center for Justice & Accountability, and as a law clerk with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.  Van Schaack is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Van Schaak is also on LinkedIn.

Areas of Expertise: International Law, International Human Rights, Transitional Justice, International Criminal Law & Humanitarian Law, Civil Procedure, Corporations, Conflicts of Law

Articles by this author:

Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee January 11, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Israeli soldiers patrol along the concrete separation barrier bordering Abu Dis, West Bank March 26, 2006 in East Jerusalem, Israel. A civilian walks by them.
The Statue of Lady Justice/Justitia at the Dublin Castle. This statue is different than most depictions of Justitia, as this statue is not blindfolded. She holds a sword and scales.
A mural on a fence reads, “Heal Syria” and shows butterflies painted with the Syrian flag. Some of the butterflies are colored on one half in the Syrian flag and on the other half with other country flags.
Falun Gong practitioners Kimmy Gao and Ruting Fang place their hands in front of their bodies in prayer pose as they demonstrate in front of the Chinese Consulate July 20, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
Surrounded by photographs of victims of yesterday's chemical weapon attack, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) April 5, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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