Selected Publications

• "Song as a Crime Against Humanity," forthcoming in Trials and Tribulations of International Prosecution, Lexington Books.
• "The Innocence of Youtube" (with Rebecca MacKinnon), Foreign Policy, October 5, 2012.
• "Words as Weapons," World Policy Journal, Spring 2012.
• "The Ghost of Causation," Propaganda, War Crimes Trials, and International Law: From Speakers Corner to War Crimes (Routledge, Nov. 2011).
• "Election-Related Violence: The Role of Dangerous Speech (conference proceedings)," American Society of International Law, March 2011.
• "Are We There Yet: An Evaluative Framework for Transitional Justice," Global Studies Review, Fall/Winter 2009.
• "The ICTR’s Prosecution of a Pop Star: The Bikindi Case," African Yearbook of International Law, 17 (2009).
• "Vile Crime or Inalienable Right? Defining Incitement to Genocide" Virgina Journal of International Law, 485 (2008).
• "Due Process and Decision-Making in U.S. Immigration Adjudication," 59 Administrative Law Review 3 (2007).
• "The Ever-Expanding Material Support Bar: An Unjust Obstacle for Refugees and Asylum Seekers," (with Devon Chafee) Interpersonal Relations, Mar. 2006.

Grants and Sponsored Research

Dangerous Speech on the Road to Mass Violence, a project to study the role of inflammatory speech in mass killings, to identify why and when speech is especially dangerous, and to find remedies that do not trample freedom of expression. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the United States Institute for Peace, the work is in collaboration with Francis Deng, UN Undersecretary General and Special Advisor for the Prevention of Genocide.

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

Clinical Teaching Fellow, Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center, 2006-2008. Supervised students in live-client asylum cases, took full role in teaching clinical seminar, wrote course materials, published scholarly articles in U.S. and international law.

Robert L. Bernstein Fellow in International Human Rights, Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights, 2000-2003.  Campaigned on asylum and refugee issues. Traveled to Guatemala to monitor human rights trial.

Professional Presentations

• United Nations and the US Holocaust Memoral Museum, Feb. 1-5, 2013. Hate Speech and Incitement to Genocide.
• Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, Harvard University, Nov. 28, 2012. Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the Contours of International Human Rights Law.
• The Media Institute, Oct. 25, 2012. Featured panelist on a discussion of the "Innocence of Muslims" video during a celebration of Free Speech Week.
• Global Voices Citizen Media Summit, July 2, 2012. Moderated Inside/Outside: Diaspora Influence Online.
• Yale Law School, Nov 5, 2011. Emerging Challenges to Freedom of Expression: From Hate Speech to Social Networks.
• Brookings Institution, May 17, 2011. Featured speaker for Private Experts’ Roundtable: Managing Global Order.
• Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 27, 2011. Speech, Song, Crime? Dangerous Speech on the Road to Atrocities.
• United Nations, Oct. 28, 2010. Dangerous Speech on the Road to Genocide: A Dialogue with Member States.
• Cardozo School of Law, April 15, 2010. International Law on ‘Hate Speech’
• Fordham Law School, March 26, 2010. The Internet As A Dual Use Technology: Democracy and Extremism.

Research Interests

Primary interests: Human Rights, International Criminal Law, Conflict Prevention, Transitional Justice, Refugee Law and Policy, International Law, Media and Internet Law.