Elena A. Baylis
Associate Professor of Law
- ebaylis@pitt.edu
- (412) 624-2829
- LAW 322
Elena Baylis studies the interactions between international, national, and sub-national legal institutions and communities. In an ongoing series of articles, she explores the international legal community’s interventions in post-conflict states, focusing on the roles of transnational networks and of national and parallel courts. Professor Baylis has examined national security issues in several recent pieces, critiquing the use of U.S. administrative agencies and immigration law in the global war on terror. Her earlier scholarship described and assessed efforts to use national human rights commissions and other conflict resolution mechanisms to address the concerns of sub-national minority groups. In her current work, Professor Baylis is drawing connections between national tort law and international criminal law.
Currently Teaching
- Torts (Fall 08)
- Conflicts of Law (Spring 09)
- Crimes Against Humanity Seminar (Spring 09)
Courses Previously Taught
- Comparative Minority Group Protections Seminar
Selected Publications
Chapters
- National Security and Political Asylum, in Immigration, Integration and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective (A.C. d’Appollonia & S. Reich eds., 2008).
- The Inevitable Impunity of Suicide Terrorists, in Evil, Law and The State: Perspectives on State Power and Violence (J. Parry ed., 2006).
Scholarly Articles
- Reassessing the Role of International Criminal Law: Rebuilding National Courts Through Transnational Networks, 50 Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2009).
- Tribunal-Hopping with the Post-Conflict Justice Junkies, Oregon Review of International Law (symposium article) (forthcoming 2008)
- Parallel Courts in Post-Conflict Kosovo, 32 Yale Journal of International Law 1 (2007)
- Sending the Bureaucrats to War, 92 Iowa Law Review (2007) (with D. Zaring)
- Minority Rights, Minority Wrongs, 10 UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs 66 (2005)
- Elena Baylis, Beyond Rights: Legal Process and Ethnic Conflict, 25 Michigan Journal of International Law 529 (2004).
Essays and Other Writing
- Should God and Caesar Litigate?, 8 Green Bag 144 (2005) (book review)
- Why the International Criminal Court Needs Darfur, Jurist Legal News (June 3, 2005) (commentary).
- Justice Isn't Just for Saddam, The Contra Costa Times (Jan. 4, 2004) (op-ed).
- Constructing Credibility, 6 Green Bag 399 (2003) (interview).
- Simple Justice: Judicial Philosophy in the Kingdom of Bhutan, 6 Green Bag 131 (2003) (with D. Munro).
Selected Professional Activities
- Presented Reassessing the Role of International Criminal Law, at the Northeast Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in October 2008.
- Panelist, International Criminal Law panel, International Law Weekend, organized by the American Branch of the International Law Association in October 2008.
- Organized an interdisciplinary roundtable at Pitt on Methods in International Law, featuring an impressive lineup of legal scholars and anthropologists, in September 2008.