TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 14, 2021

A new article from the Tennessean profiles Vanderbilt Law School Professor Mike Newton who, alongside his students, is helping judges in Iraq prosecute ISIS cases. Newton had worked on helping the Iraqi judiciary rebuild its court system after the reign of former dictator Saddam Hussein, but his work has now shifted to helping prosecute tens of thousands of ISIS cases and genocide cases previously ignored by the country. Newton’s work, funded by a grant from the U.S. State Department, is aided by students from Vanderbilt’s exclusive International Law Practice Lab. The students last year built a 300-page manual of international criminal law best practices to support attorneys in international criminal tribunals.