Charles C. Jalloh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, U.S.A. He also holds affiliate faculty appointments at the Ford Institute for Human Security in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs as well as the African Studies Program. He specializes in Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law and Public International Law.

Professor Jalloh’s recent scholarship centers on questions of jurisdiction and selectivity in international criminal law, including in particular, the tense relationship between Africa and the International Criminal Court. His publications include several book chapters and articles in leading journals such as African Journal of International and Comparative Law, American Journal of International Law, Criminal Law Forum, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, International Criminal Law Review and Michigan Journal of International Law. In 2007, he edited the legal texts of the Sierra Leone Tribunal for Martinus Nijhoff and is currently under contract for a five-part jurisprudence series with the same publisher.

A member of the Ontario Bar since 2004, Professor Jalloh was a Legal Counsel in the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Department of Justice Canada. For about three years, he served as the Legal Advisor to the Office of the Principal Defender (OPD) in the Special Court for Sierra Leone – the first such office in an international criminal court. In that capacity, he set up and ran the OPD’s Hague Office. Between June and August 2007, he played a key role as court-appointed Duty Counsel to former Liberian President Charles Taylor. He resigned for reasons of principle. Afterwards, he clerked at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania for Presiding Judge Erik Møse assisting on historic trials involving the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Since joining Pitt Law, Professor Jalloh has given the first R.J. Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture in International Law at North Carolina Central University School of Law in fall 2010. In addition, in summer 2011, he was a Visiting Scholar at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law in South Africa.

Professor Jalloh, who is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary African Journal of Legal Studies, has given many invited lectures in the United States, Europe and Africa.  A frequent consultant on international law issues, he is a member of the American Society of International Law, where he is currently an elected Co-Chair of the International Criminal Law Interest Group; a member of the American Society of Comparative Law; Canadian Council on International Law and the Advisory Board for the War Crimes Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). In 2012, Professor Jalloh was honored as the IBA-nominee to the Advisory Panel to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Under Rule 44(D) of the ICTY Rules of Procedure and Evidence, the ICTY President and Registrar of the Tribunal consults the panel on issues relating to the assignment of defense counsel, including settlement of disputes regarding the remuneration of counsel. His appointment is for two years.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of Guelph, and Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees from McGill University, Canada. He earned a Master’s in International Human Rights Law, with distinction, at Oxford University, U.K., where he was also a Chevening Scholar.

Education

Specialization

• International and Comparative Law
• International Criminal Law
• International Human Rights / Humanitarian Law
• Criminal Law

Selected Publications

Edited Books

• Charles C. Jalloh, ed., The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy: The Impact for Africa and International Criminal Law (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012).
• Charles C. Jalloh and Simon Meisenberg, eds., The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone: The Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara and Kanu (The AFRC Case), (Boston, U.S.A./Leiden, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Brill, 2012) 2, 310 pps.
• Charles C. Jalloh, ed., Consolidated Legal Texts for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Boston, U.S.A./Leiden, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Brill, 2007) 608 pps., abstract available on SSRN.

Articles and Book Chapters

• The Essence of Crimes Against Humanity, __ American Univ. International Law Review __ (Fall 2012).
• The Meaning of Greatest Responsibility in International Criminal Law, __ Marquette Law Review __ (Fall 2012). 
• The Role of Assigned, Standby and Amicus Counsel in International Criminal Proceedings. International Criminal Procedure: The Interface of Civil Law and Common Law Legal Systems (Fausto Pocar and Linda Carter, eds., Edward Elgar Publishers, forthcoming 2012).
• International Decision, Situation in the Republic of Kenya: No. ICC-01/09-02/11-274 - Judgment on Kenya’s Appeal of Decision Denying Admissibility, 106 American Journal of International Law 118-125 (Jan. 2012). Available on SSRN.
• International Decision, Situation in the Republic of Kenya, Decision on the Authorization of an Investigation, 105 American Journal of International Law 540-547 (July 2011). Available on SSRN.
• Special Court for Sierra Leone: Achieving Justice?, 32 Michigan Journal of International Law 395-460 (Spring 2011). Available on SSRN.
• Dapo Akande and Max du Plessis, Assessing the African Union Concerns about Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 4 African Journal of Legal Studies 5-50 (July 2011). Available on SSRN.
• International Decision, Michelot Yogogombaye v. Republic of Senegal, 104 American Journal of International Law 620-628 (Oct. 2010). Available on SSRN. 
• Universal Jurisdiction, Universal Prescription? A Preliminary Assessment of the African Union Perspective on Universal Jurisdiction, 21 Criminal Law Forum 1-65 (Mar. 2010). Available on SSRN.
• The International Criminal Court on Trial, in Chile Eboe-Osuji, ed., Protecting Humanity: Essays in International Law and Policy in Honour of Navanethem Pillay, (Boston, U.S.A./Leiden, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Brill, 2010), pp. 417-529.
• Regionalizing International Criminal Law?, 9 International Criminal Law Review 445-499 (July 2009). Available on SSRN.
• The Contribution of the Special Court for Sierra Leone to the Development of International Law, 15 African Journal of International and Comparative Law 165-207 (Sept. 2007). Available on SSRN.
• Alhagi Marong, Charles C. Jalloh & David Kinnecomme, Concurrent Jurisdiction at the ICTR: Should the Tribunal Refer Cases to Rwanda? in Emmanuel Decaux et al., eds., From Human Rights to International Criminal Law: Studies in Honour of an African Jurist, the Late Judge Laity Kama (Boston, U.S.A./Leiden, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Brill, 2007), pp. 159-201, available on SSRN.  
• Vincent O. Nmehielle & Charles C. Jalloh, The Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, 30 Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 107-124 (Spring 2006). Available on SSRN.  
• Chernor Jalloh & Alhagi Marong, Ending Impunity: The Case for War Crimes Trials in Liberia in Festus Aboagye and Alhaji Bah, eds., A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia (Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2005), pp. 191–229. Expanded and republished in 1 African Journal of Legal Studies 53-79 (Spring 2005). Available on SSRN.

Essays and Comments

• The Alternate Judge Sow Affair in the Charles Taylor Case, JURIST Forum (Oct. 1, 2012).
• The Verdict(s) in the Charles Taylor Trial, JURIST Forum (May 14, 2012).
• Scheduling Judgment Day:  Ending the Charles Taylor Trial, JURIST Forum (March 29, 2012).
• Charles Taylor and the Delayed Special Court for Sierra Leone Judgment, JURIST Forum (Feb. 2012).
• A Date With Justice: Mugesera's Inevitable Deportation from Canada, JURIST Forum (Jan. 2012).
• (Re)Writing History After Rwanda's Genocide: A Response to Peter Erlinder, JURIST Legal News Service (Aug. 2010).
• The African Union and the International Criminal Court: The Summer of Our Discontent(s), JURIST Legal News Service (Aug. 2010).
• Kenya’s Dangerous Dance with Impunity, JURIST (Aug. 2009).
• Charles C. Jalloh & Janewa Osei-Tutu, Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara, and Kanu: First Judgment from the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, 12 American Society of International Law Insights 10 (May 2008).  
• Special Court for Sierra Leone Dismisses Taylor Motion Against Change of Venue, 10 American Society of International Law Insights 15 (June 2006).     
• Immunity from Prosecution for International Crimes: The Case of Charles Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, American Society of International Law Insights (Oct. 2004).

Book Reviews

• WTO: THE DOHA AGENDA The New Negotiations on World Trade by B.L. Das (London: Zed Books, 2003) 33 Millennium: Journal of International Studies 2 (2004).  
• The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Perspectives on South Africa’s Basic Law by Andrews, P. and Ellman, S. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001), 35 Journal of Labour, Capital and Society 1 (2002).

Selected Presentations

• Presenter, “The African Perspective on Universal Jurisdiction,” National Univ. of Rwanda, (July 2011).
• Presenter, “Prosecuting Those Bearing Greatest Responsibility: The Experiences of the Special Court for Sierra Leone,” Univ. of Pretoria Faculty of Law, Institute of International and Comparative Law in Africa, (Aug. 2011).
• Presenter, “Greatest Responsibility: A Jus Post Bellum Perspective,” Vanderbilt Law School, (Aug. 2011).
• Presenter, “Greatest Responsibility,” John Marshall Law School, (Dec. 2011). 

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Selected Professional Activities

• Invited Panelist, “Africa and the International Criminal Court”, American Society of International Law, 106th Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C.), March 2012.
• Presenter, Faculty Workshop, “The Meaning of ‘Greatest Responsibility’ in International Criminal Law”, John Marshall Law School (Chicago, IL), December 9, 2011.
• Invited Commentator, Faculty Colloquium in International Law and Theory, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, November 18-19, 2011.
• Panelist, “Transfers under Rule 11bis”, South Africa Litigation Center, REDRESS and African Rights, Conference on Closing the Impunity Gap: Southern Africa’s Role in Ensuring Justice for the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (Johannesburg, South Africa), July 1, 2011.
• Guest Lecture, Should the United Nations Security Council Suspend the Indictment of Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir?, Ford Institute for Human Security, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), January 28, 2011.
• Faculty Workshop, Law and Politics in the International Criminal Justice Process: Exploring the Meaning of Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Pacific McGeorge School of Law (Sacramento, California), November 4, 2010.
• The International Criminal Court on Trial, R.J. Reynolds Distinguished Endowed Chair Lecture in International Law, North Carolina Central University Law School (Durham, North Carolina), August 18-19, 2010.
• Co-Chair, International Law Experts Meeting on the African Union Concerns about Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Institute for Security Studies (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), June 19-21, 2010.
• Speaker, Conference on The Al-Bashir Arrest Warrant: The World vs. Africa or the African Union vs. the People of Africa?, Africa Legal Aid (The Hague, Netherlands), April 26, 2010.
• Panelist, Special Court for Sierra Leone: Achieving Justice?, Human Rights Center/Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy (Buffalo, NY), University at Buffalo Law School, "Is the Special Court for Sierra Leone Achieving Justice?", February 17, 2010.
• Facilitator, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), Special Guest Lecture by Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp on "The Role of the United States in International Criminal Justice", January 28, 2010.
• Guest Speaker, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Canadian Department of Justice (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), “Africa and the International Criminal Court: Collision Course or Cooperation?”, October 15, 2009. 
• Presenter, Faculty Workshop, Case Western University Reserve School of Law (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.), “Universal Jurisdiction. Universal Prescription?”, September 24, 2009. 
• Facilitator, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), Special Guest Lecture by the Chief Prosecutor of the Rwanda Tribunal Justice Hassan B. Jallow on “The Contribution of the Rwanda Tribunal to the Development of International Law, and the Challenges of Completion”, September 11, 2009. 
• Participant, Consultative Conference on International Criminal Justice, United Nations (New York, U.S.A), September 9-10, 2009. 
• Commentator for Ronald St. John McDonald Young Scholars Award, 38th Annual Conference, Canadian Council on International Law (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), October 15, 2009.
• Guest Speaker and panelist, Complutense University (El Escorial, Spain), 2009 Human Rights Summer School (Theme: Justicia y derechos humanos: de la frustracion a la esperanza - Justice and Human Rights: from frustration to hope), “An African Union Perspective on Universal Jurisdiction”, July 14, 2009.
• Facilitator/guest speaker, Institute for Security Studies (Cape Town, South Africa), Workshop of African Civil Society, “The Implications of the AU’s recent decisions on universal jurisdiction and the work of the ICC in Africa”, May 11, 2009.
• Panelist, Institute for Security Studies (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), International Conference on Sudan: Impact of the ICC Arrest Warrants on Peace and Stability, “The AU, the Security Council and Sudan”, March 17, 2009.
• Panelist, International Commission of Jurists (Nairobi, Kenya), Workshop on International Criminal Justice: Options for Justice in Kenya, “An Overview of Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Africa”, March 12, 2009.
• Guest speaker, South African National War College (Pretoria, South Africa), Peace Support Operations Seminar on Complex Emergencies: Security Challenges in the 21st Century – Implications for UN, AU and International Peace Operations, “The Emerging International Criminal Justice Architecture: Prospects and Challenges for Africa and the International Criminal Court”, October 3, 2008.
• Guest speaker, Grotius Center for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, The Hague Campus (Den Haag, Netherlands), “The Role of the Office of the Principal Defender in the Trial of Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor”, November 22, 2007.
• Panelist, Canadian Council on International Law, 35th Annual Conference, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada), “State Responsibility for Para-Military Groups: The Case of the Civil Defence Forces in Sierra Leone’s Civil War”, October 26, 2006.