Zachary D. Kaufman ’09, “Recognizing Genocide Upstanders”

Lunch will be provided

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Professor Zachary D. Kaufman, J.D., Ph.D., is an award-winning scholar and practitioner of Criminal Law, International Law, National Security Law, and Transitional Justice.  He is currently Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he serves as Co-Faculty Advisor to the Florida Journal of International Law, Co-Faculty Advisor to the Criminal Law Society, and Faculty Advisor to the International Law Society. At the University of Florida, he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Political Science and Center for African Studies.

Before joining the University of Florida faculty, Professor Kaufman taught at Stanford Law School, Yale University Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Boston University School of Law, George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, University of Houston Law Center, and University of Puerto Rico School of Law. In addition, he was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and has held other academic appointments at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford University, and New York University.

Professor Kaufman received his J.D. from Yale Law School (where he was an Olin Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review, Managing Editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, and co-founder and co-president of Yale Law Social Entrepreneurs). He received his D.Phil. (Ph.D.) and M.Phil., both in International Relations, from the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar). He received his B.A. in Political Science from Yale University (where he earned several academic, leadership, athletic, and public service awards and was the student body president, a residential counselor, co-captain of the wrestling team, and an All American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association).