University of North Dakota Law Professor Gregory Gordon, an expert in international law and international human rights law, recently was interviewed on BBC World Service about war crimes in Africa.

Gordon specifically addressed extradition of an accused war criminal to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His interview has been included on this press release.

Gordon also is director of UND's Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies. He also teaches at UND's Law School in areas, such as criminal law and criminal procedure.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) and Juris Doctor at the University of California at Berkeley. He then served as law clerk to U. S. District Court Judge Martin Pence, D-Hawaii. After a stint as a litigator in San Francisco, he worked with the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he served as Legal Officer and Deputy Team Leader for the landmark "media" cases, the first international post-Nuremberg prosecutions of radio and print media executives for incitement to genocide. For this work, Professor Gordon received a commendation from U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno for "service to the United States and international justice."

He also served in the U.S. Department of Justice dealing with white-collar tax crimes and helping to bring down narcotics trafficking rings. The DOJ also sent Gordon to Sierra Leone, Africa to conduct a post-civil war justice assessment for department's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training.

In 2003, he joined the DOJ Criminal Division's Office of Special Investigations, where he helped investigate and prosecute Nazi war criminals and modern human rights violators.

Gordon has been featured on C-SPAN, National Public Radio, Radio France Internationale and BBC World Service as an expert on war crimes prosecution and has lectured on that subject at the U.S. Army J.A.G. School and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library.

On behalf of the Ethiopian government, he has trained high-level federal prosecutors in Addis Ababa. His scholarship on international criminal law has been published in leading international journals, such as the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and the Virginia Journal of International Law. He has presented his work at institutions such as Yale University, Georgetown University Law Center and Emory University in Atlanta.