Legal Practice

At the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in February 2024, I acted as counsel and advocate for Sudan in advisory proceedings concerning the legal consequences of Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. You can watch my pleading here; it starts at 43:40:

Presenting Sudan’s oral statement in the advisory proceedings on Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory before the International Court of Justice in February 2024.

At the International Criminal Court, I have served as ad hoc counsel for the defence, duty counsel for suspects, and legal adviser to witnesses in cases involving the situations in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Uganda. See, for instance:

Acting as legal adviser to a witness in Prosecutor v. Mahamat Said Kani, Situation in the Central African Republic II, before Trial Chamber VI, 2024.

In 2000, I clerked for the Appeals Section of the Office of the Prosecutor which served both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). During this time, I was involved in the appellate proceedings for some of the first genocide cases in the history of international criminal justice: Prosecutor v. AkayesuProsecutor v. Kayishema and Ruzindana, and Prosecutor v. Musema. In 2002, I joined the team at the ICTY’s Office of the Prosecutor responsible for editing the tribunal’s digest of jurisprudence.

Law clerks from the ICTY Office of the Prosecutor with Chief Prosecutor Mrs. Carla Del Ponte (centre of the photo). I’m in the row behind, the third person from the right.

In Argentina, I focused on private law, criminal law, and labour law, with a particular interest in cases where these areas intersected with human rights law. Notably, I acted as advocate for the plaintiff in two cases concerning reparations for victims of enforced disappearance.

Meeting the Dalai Lama in my capacity as Secretary of the Board of Amnesty International Argentina, Buenos Aires, April 1999.