David Cohen

Professor of rhetoric and classics, UC Berkeley, and former professor of law and social thought, University of Chicago. Monitored and reported on the East Timor trials before the Serious Crimes Panel in Dili and the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court in Jakarta. Directs a trial monitoring project at the special court for Sierra Leone and an international project on the WWII war crimes trials in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe. Currently writing books on a comparative study of international criminal hybrid tribunals in East Timor, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Kosovo and on war crimes from WWII to today.

Books and Monographs:

• Intended to Fail: The Trials before the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court in Jakarta, International Center for Transitional Justice, 2003.

• Indifference and Accountability:  The United Nations and the Politics of International Justice in East Timor, East-West Center Special Reports Number 9, June 2006, East-West Center.

• The Legacy of the Serious Crimes Trials in East Timor (forthcoming International Center for Transitional Justice, 2007)

• The Cambridge Companion to Greek Law, co-edited with Michael Gagarin, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

• Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

• Law, Society and Sexuality: The Enforcement of Morals at Classical Athens, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

• The Athenian Law of Theft, C.H. Beck Verlag, 1983.

For information on the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, please see the University of California web site.