Investigating War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia War 1992-1994 ─ The United Nations Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 (1992)

M. Cherif Bassiouni served as member and chair of the Commission of Experts established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 780 (1992), whose work is at the center of this book, as well as in twenty-one other UN positions. He is an Emeritus Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law where he taught for 45 years and was a founding member of the International Human Rights Law Institute. He was also a founder of the Siracusa Institute, formerly the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, in Siracusa, Italy, where he served as President and now Honorary President. He also served as the Secretary-General, President and Honorary President of the prestigious L’Association Internationale de Droit Pénal.

He has authored 30 books and 271 articles, and has edited 44 books and co-authored 5 on International Criminal Law, Comparative Law, Human Rights and U.S. Law. His works have been written in and published in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. His work has been cited by many international courts, including the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the highest courts of nine countries. He has testified before the U.S. Congress 18 times, most recently in July 2014 in connection with the events in Syria. He has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and medals from various nations and received the Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.