Professor Cerone teaches Public International Law, Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Law and serves as director of the law school's Center for International Law and Policy. He has been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a visiting scholar at the International Criminal Court. He has also been a Fulbright scholar at both the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Before joining the New England faculty in 2004, Professor Cerone was executive director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University Washington College of Law, where he served as a legal adviser to various international criminal courts and tribunals.

He has taught courses and given guest lectures in various countries throughout the wold, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Kosovo, Japan, Germany, Albania, East Timor, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Laos, Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Serbia, Colombia, Malta, Sweden, Canada, Kenya, Tanzania, Cambodia, Malaysia, China, Indonesia and South Korea.

As a practicing international lawyer, Professor Cerone has worked for a number of different intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, including the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, and the International Crisis Group. He also has extensive field experience in conflict and post-conflict environments, such as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and East Timor. He is accredited by the United Nations to represent the American Society of International Law before various U.N. bodies.

He is the author of several articles and book chapters on international law.

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Selected Publications

• Dynamic Equilibrium: The Evolution of U.S. Policy Regarding International Criminal Courts, 18 Eur. J. Int'l L. ___ (forthcoming 2007)
  
• Jurisdiction and Power: The Intersection of Human Rights Law & the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict in a Transnational Context, 40 Israel Law Rev. 72 (2007)
  
• A Human Right of Self-Defense?, 2 Geo. Mason J. Law, Economics, & Policy 316 (2006)
  
• 'Dangerous Dicta': The Disposition of U.S. Courts Toward Recourse to International Standards in Gay Rights Adjudication, 32 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 543 (2006)
  
• Human Dignity in the Line of Fire: The Application of International Human Rights Law During Armed Conflict, Occupation, and Peace Operations, 39 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 1447 (2006)
  
• Reasonable measures in unreasonable circumstances: a legal responsibility framework for human rights violations in post-conflict territories under UN administration, in The UN, Human Rights and Post-Conflict Situations (Nigel White & Dirk Klaasen, eds., 2005)
  
• The Human Rights Legal Framework Applicable to Trafficking in Persons and Its Incorporation into UNMIK Regulation 2001/4, 7 International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of International Peace Operations 43 (2002). (summary re-printed in Human Rights Brief, fall 2003).
  
• Minding the Gap: Outlining KFOR Accountability under International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Post-Conflict Kosovo, 12 Eur. J. of Int'l L. 469 (2001), available at http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol12/No3/ab3.html.
  

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Last Updated: 05/15/2008