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Shahram Dana
Associate Professor
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Phone: 312.386.2854
Email: sdana@jmls.edu
JD, Boston University School of Law
LLM, cum laude, Leiden University
BA, summa cum laude, Arizona State University's Walter
Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunications
Scholarship | SSRN Publications | Presentations
Prior to joining John Marshall, Shahram Dana worked at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and as a lecturer at Maastricht University Faculty of Law in the Netherlands. Professor Dana's research focuses on public international law and international criminal justice. He is finishing his first book, International Crime and Punishment: A Theory for International Sentencing, and contributed a chapter to The Criminal Law of Genocide: International, Comparative, and Contextual Aspects in 2007.
A frequent lecturer at conferences around the globe, Professor Dana was selected by The Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise to train senior judges, prosecutors, and government officials on crimes against humanity, international criminal law, human rights, and the International Criminal Court. In law school, he received the G. Joseph Tauro Scholar distinction for academic achievement and served on the Boston University International Law Journal.
He teaches International Criminal Law, Criminal Law, Human Rights, and Public International Law.
Scholarship
Law, Justice & Politics: A Reckoning of the International Criminal Court, 43 John Marshall Law Review (2011)
Beyond Retroactivity to Realizing Justice: A Theory on the Principle of Legality in International Sentencing, 99 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 857 (2010)
"Genocide, Reconciliation and Sentencing in the Jurisprudence of the ICTY," in The Criminal Law of Genocide (R. Henham & P. Behrens eds.), Ashgate Publishing Group (2007)
"Turning Point in International Justice?" in Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals, Vol. XI (A. Klip & G. Sluiter eds.) Intersentia, Oxford (2007)
"The Law of Contempt before the ICTR" in Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals, Vol. X (A. Klip & G. Sluiter eds.) Intersentia, Oxford (2006)
Presentations
"The Impact of Iran's Legal System on Human Rights," DePaul College of Law (April 10, 2012)
American Society of International Law Annual Conference, International Criminal Law Interest Group Meeting, "Implications of the Lubanga Case: Opportunity for a Clean Slate?" Washington, D.C. (March 2012)
American Society of International Law, International Criminal Law Scholars Roundtable, "The Perverse Effects of Reconciliation in International Criminal Justice," Chicago, Illinois (Dec. 9, 2011)
American Society of International Law Inaugural Research Forum, "The Perverse Effects of Ideology in International Criminal Justice," University of California Los Angeles (Nov. 2011)
14th Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference, "Boundaries and Enemies," University of Nevada – Las Vegas (March 12, 2011)
Yale Law School Junior International Law Scholars Association, "The Perverse Effects of Ideology in International Criminal Justice," Yale Law School (Feb. 25, 2011)
The American Society of International Law Annual Conference on International Legal Theory, "Reexamining Customary International Law," Washington, D.C. (Nov. 12, 2010)
International Humanitarian Law Workshop, “When Does IHL Apply?” DePaul Law School (Oct. 2010)
Central States Law Schools Association Annual Conference, "Beyond Retroactivity to Realizing Justice: A Theory on the Principle of Legality in International Criminal Law Sentencing," University of North Dakota School of Law (Sept. 24 & 25, 2010)
Southeast Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, "The Perverse Effects of Reconciliation Ideology on International Justice" (Aug. 2010)
Law and Society Annual Conference, "Punishing Political and Military Leaders for International Crimes," Chicago, Illinois (May 2010)
American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, "The Perverse Effects of Reconciliation on the Punishment of Perpetrators of Gross Violations of Human Rights," San Diego, California (Jan. 7, 2009)
