M. Cherif Bassiouni is emeritus professor of law at DePaul University, where he taught since 1964, and president emeritus of the International Human Rights Law Institute, which he helped found in 1990. He was one of the founders in 1972 of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, Italy, and served as its president since 1988. He is the honorary president of the International Association of Penal Law after having served three terms as president from 1989 to 2004. He was a guest scholar at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 1972, visiting professor of law, New York University Law School in 1971, Fulbright-Hays Professor of International Criminal Law, The University of Freiburg, Germany in 1970, non-resident professor of criminal law at the University of Cairo from 1996 to 2006, and is a frequent lecturer at universities in the United States and abroad.His legal education was in Egypt, France, Switzerland and the United States where he received the following degrees: LLB University of Cairo; JD Indiana University; LLM John Marshall Law School; SJD George Washington University. In addition, he received several honorary degrees from: Doctor of Law honoris causa University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium (2011); Case Western Reserve University, USA (LLD) (2010); Catholic Theological Union, USA (Doctor of Humane Letters) (2009); National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (LLD) (2001); Niagara University, USA (LLD) (1997); Docteur dEtat en Droit honoris causa, University of Pau, France (1986); Dottore in Giurisprudenza honoris causa, University of Torino, Italy (1981).
'The two volumes are of great use, both as a resource and as an introduction to the main issues of the individual problem areas.' Rainer Huhle in Nurnberger Menschenrechtszentrum (2010). 'Its major contribution is in the breadth and depth of empirical evidence that it provides of the significance of post-conflict justice regardless of the location or nature of the conflict; far more than is the norm for literature in this area.' Matthew Saul in the International Criminal Law Review 11 (2011) 177. '[...] these two volumes bring together a wealth of factual information and academic argument on a variety of topics in the field of "post conflict justice". [It] was refreshing to consider international criminal law by looking not only at the handful of international(ized) criminal tribunals in existence and the few conflicts they deal with, but also more globally at both the conflicts and crimes and at the mechanisms to address them. [The work] presents a very welcome and refreshing break from the usual narrow focus of international criminal law books. The scope of its consideration of the topic - in a geographic as well as a thematic sense - is truly impressive. Covering everything from the philosophical foundations of international criminal law to detailed factual accounts, it will surely prove extremely useful to both practitioners and scholars of international criminal law. ' Bjorn Elberling in German 53 Yearbook of International Law (2010) 1014.
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