Leila Sadat

Leila Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at Washington University Law School. From 2012 to 2023, she served as Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to two International Criminal Court Prosecutors. Sadat is the Director of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a project that wrote the world’s first treaty on crimes against humanity, and the Gun Violence and Human Rights Initiative. Sadat also serves as the current Chair of the International Law Association (American Branch) and is a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. She is currently a Fellow at Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights.