Margaret deGuzman

Contact:  deguzmantemple.edu       

Qualifications:  J.D. (Yale Law School 1999); M.A.L.D. (The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy 1996); Fulbright Scholar (Senegal 1993); B.S.F.S. (Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service 1992).

Margaret deGuzman is currently an Assistant Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Her research engages questions about the appropriate role of international criminal law in the global legal order, with a particular focus on the concept of gravity.  She has authored a number of publications on such issues as the definition of crimes against humanity and the role of case and situational gravity in the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court. Professor deGuzman clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law in San Francisco for six years, specializing in criminal defense.  Professor deGuzman also served as a legal advisor to the Senegal delegation at the Rome Conference on the International Criminal Court.

Publications

• Initiation of Investigations and Selection of Cases, in Towards Codification of General Rules and Principles of International Criminal Procedure (forthcoming 2011) (with W. Schabas).
  
• Crimes Against Humanity, in Handbook of International Criminal Law (Bartram S. Brown ed., forthcoming 2011) (solicited).
• Giving Priority to Sex Crime Prosecutions at International Courts: The Philosophical Foundations of a Feminist Agenda, International Criminal Law Review (forthcoming 2011).
• Crimes Against Humanity, in Handbook of International Criminal Law (W. Schabas & N. Bernaz eds., Routledge 2010) (solicited).
  
• Gravity and the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court, 32 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1400 (2009). [ssrn]
• Article 21, Applicable Law, in Commentary on the Rome Statute of the ICC 435 (O. Triffterer ed., Hart 1999 & 2008).
  
• Justice in Cambodia: Past, Present, and Future, 19 Crim. L. Forum 335 (2008) (book review).

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