Christian De Vos (JD '17)
Christian de Vos (JD鈥07) serves as the Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights. He has worked as a human rights advocate, attorney, and researcher for organizations including聽 the United States Institute of Peace, the War Crimes Research Office, Leiden University鈥檚 Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and, most recently, at the Open Society Justice Initiative, where he worked across the Open Society Foundations鈥 network to advance a broad range of human rights issues, principally through strategic litigation, research, and legal advocacy.
A 2007 graduate of the Washington College of Law, De Vos聽co-edited the volume聽Contested Justice: The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions聽(Cambridge Press, 2015) and his book,聽Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance: The International Criminal Court in Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo聽(now available in paperback), won the 鈥淏ook of the Year鈥 Award from the International Law Association鈥檚 American Branch.聽 He is also an adjunct assistant professor of political science at Columbia University, where he teaches international human rights law.聽He also holds an MSc in international relations from the London School of Economics and a BA from Wesleyan University. He is a member of the New York bar and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.