Gregory S. GordonAssistant Professor of Law  Professor Gordon is Director of the UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, and teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, international law and international human rights law. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) and Juris Doctor at the University of California at Berkeley. He then served as law clerk to U. S. District Court Judge Martin Pence (D. Haw.). After a stint as a litigator in San Francisco, he worked with the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he served as Legal Officer and Deputy Team Leader for the landmark "media" cases, the first international post-Nuremberg prosecutions of radio and print media executives for incitement to genocide. For this work, Professor Gordon received a commendation from Attorney General Janet Reno for "Service to the United States and International Justice." After his experience at ICTR, he became a white-collar criminal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division. Following a detail as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, he was appointed as the Tax Division's Liaison to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (Pacific Region) for which he helped prosecute large narcotics trafficking rings. Also during this time, he was detailed to Sierra Leone to conduct a post-civil war justice assessment for DOJ's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training. In 2003, he joined the Criminal Division's Office of Special Investigations, where he helped investigate and prosecute Nazi war criminals and modern human rights violators. Professor Gordon has been featured on C-SPAN, NPR, the BBC and Radio France Internationale as an expert on war crimes prosecution and has lectured on that subject at the U.S. Army J.A.G. School, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition to contributing to the Holocaust Museum's influential "Voices on Antisemitism" podcast series, he has had the honor of speaking to members of both the British and Canadian Parliaments and sharing the dais with former U.N. Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Andrew Young. On behalf of the Ethiopian government, he has trained high-level federal prosecutors in Addis Ababa. His scholarship on international criminal law has been published in leading international academic publications, such as the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and the Virginia Journal of International Law. He has presented his work at institutions such as Yale University, Georgetown University Law Center, Emory University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He was the inaugural winner of the North Dakota Spirit Law School Faculty Achievement Award in 2009. On-Line Symposia OpinioJuris July-August, 2009 guest blogs United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Voices on Antisemitism podcast series Professor Gordon teams up with Nobel Institute for Participation in International Law Symposium OpinioJuris reply on "Participation in Virginia Journal of International Law Online Symposium related to incitement to genocide" - April 2008 thread Opinio Juris, "Challenges to Public International Law" Prof. Gordon in Grand Forks Herald article Past drives UND professor's pursuit of tolerance, October 29, 2008 EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENTUniversity of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota Assistant Professor, School of Law, Aug. 2006 to present Awarded the North Dakota Spirit Law School Faculty Achievement Award, Feb. 2009 -- in recognition of "expanding the reach of law school programs and student thinking, prolific scholarship, and an international presence that raises the visibility of the law school and the University" Director, Center for Human Rights & Genocide Studies, Dec. 2007 to present Vice President, Central States Law School Association, Oct. 2008 to present Chair/Member, UND Law School Diversity Committee, Aug. 2007 to present Member, UND Senate Scholarly Activities Committee, Aug. 2008 to present Chair, JFK Conference Committee – conceived of and organized major national/international conference at UND on 35th U.S. President – Sept. 2008 Chair, UND Law Library Director Search Committee, Aug. 2007 to May 2008 Senator, UND Academic Senate, Aug. 2007 to May 2008 United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Washington, D.C. Senior Trial Attorney, Office of Special Investigations, 2003 to 2006 Trial Attorney, Tax Criminal Enforcement Section, April 1999 to Nov. 2003
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. Special Assistant United States Attorney, July 1999 to Jan. 2000 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Legal Officer and Deputy Team Leader -- Media Crimes Team, 1996 to 1997
Kollender & Sargoy, Los Angeles, CA - 1998 Seyfarth, Shaw, et al., San Francisco, CA - 1994 - 1996 McCutchen, Doyle, et al., San Francisco, CA - 1992 - 1994 United States District Court, Honolulu, Hawaii PUBLICATIONSMusic and Genocide: Harmonizing Coherence, Freedom and Nonviolence in Incitement Law, 50 Santa Clara L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2010) Genocide as a War Crime (work in progress) Co-Legal Editor, Encyclopedia of Genocide, Vol. II (forthcoming) Complementarity and Alternative Justice, 88 Or. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming) (lead article) Genocide: The Year in Review 2008 (forthcoming) (drafted inaugural article for "Genocide Prevention Now" -- newly launched website) JFK & The Unspeakable (book review), Villanova J. Peace & Justice Studies (forthcoming) An African Marshall Plan: Changing U.S. Policy to Promote the Rule of Law and Prevent Mass Atrocity in D.R. Congo From Incitement to Indictment? Prosecuting Iran's President for Advocating Israel's Destruction and Piecing Together Incitement Law's Emerging Analytical Framework Bring Ahmadinejad to Justice, Orange County Register, April 9, 2008 Toward an International Criminal Procedure: Due Process Aspirations and Limitations - pdf format Taking the Paper Trail Instead of Memory Lane: OSI's Use of Ancient Foreign Documents in the Nazi Cases OSI's Expanded Jurisdiction under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 "A War of Media, Words, Newspapers and Television Stations": The ICTR Media Trial Verdict and a New Chapter in the International Law of Hate Speech The Other Shoe Drops: Suits by Employees Discharged for Sexual Harassment A Family Farmer and a Deficient Definition: A Search for Analytic Criteria to Classify Hybrid Property in California Purchase-Money Antideficiency Cases EDUCATIONBoalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany University of Paris at the Sorbonne, Paris, France ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCEOpinio Juris, International Law Weblog International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Washington, D.C. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum "Voices on Antisemitism" Podcast Series Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, Canada American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. United Sates Holocaust Memorial Museum Conference, Washington, D.C. Wilton Park Conference, West Sussex, United Kingdom Global Law Forum Conference, London, United Kingdom Virginia Journal of International Law, Online Symposium through Opinio Juris Blog International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Washington, D.C. Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania topics included enforcing human rights through international criminal law and attorney ethics before the international criminal tribunals Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Virginia Journal of International Law, Online Symposium through Opinio Juris Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Ethiopian Ministry of Justice, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Independence, Missouri George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. Army JAG School, Charlottesville, Virginia Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Early Outreach/Upward Bound, University of California, Berkeley Institut Franco-Américain de Management, Paris, France |
