Dr. Katherine Southwick

Dr. Katherine Southwick is an international legal scholar and consultant on rule of law, human rights, and atrocity prevention. She has conducted research and advocacy regarding the Rohingya and rule of law in Myanmar for more than a decade, and has advised Burmese refugees and activists in exile on international law and policy.  Katherine has served in government and in nongovernmental organizations based in the United States, as well as in Africa and Asia. She was the key researcher and co-author for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s resources on Criminal Justice Approaches for Preventing Mass Atrocities.  For the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI), she implemented programs relating to judicial reform, anti-trafficking in persons, and the ASEAN human rights system.  She has also worked as a federal judicial clerk, in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the U.S. State Department, and for a human rights organization based in New Delhi, India.  Katherine holds a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale University, as well as a PhD from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.