Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry

Appendix G — Commissioners’ Biographies
M. CHERIF BASSIOUNI
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 for his work in international
criminal justice and for his contributions to the establishment of the
International Criminal Court, Professor Bassiouni has held numerous U.N.
Positions between 1975 and 2011. He has been a professor of law for over
45 years.
In the course of his career he has authored 24 books, 262 law review articles
and edited 42 books on International Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal
Law, Human Rights and U.S. Criminal Law, which have been published in 4
and translated into 11 languages. Many of these texts have been cited by
international and national courts, including the International Court of Justice,
the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Extraordinary Chambers in
the Courts of Cambodia, the European Court of Human Rights, as well as
the supreme courts of Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa, the United
States and the United Kingdom.
He has received eleven medals from Austria, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy,
and the United States as well as six honorary degrees from universities in
Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, and the United States.
The United Nations positions he held include: Chairman and then Member,
Commission of Inquiry for Libya, the Independent Expert on Human Rights
in Afghanistan, Independent Expert on Victim Compensation, Chairman of
the Drafting Committee of the Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment
of an International Criminal Court, Vice-Chairman of the General
Assembly’s Ad Hoc and Preparatory Committees on the Establishment of an
International Criminal Court, Chairman of the Security Council’s
Commission to Investigate Violations of International Humanitarian Law in
the Former Yugoslavia and the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on
Gathering and Analysis of the Facts.
He served as distinguished Professor of Law, DePaul University College of
Law from 1964-2009, and Emeritus Professor since 2009, President and
Emeritus President of the International Human Rights Law Institute,
President and Dean of the International Institute of Higher Studies in
Criminal Sciences, the President and Honorary President of the International
Association of Penal Law, a Non-resident Professor of Criminal Law at the
University of Cairo, Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, Visiting Professor of Law at the New York University
Law School and Fulbright-Hays Professor of International Criminal Law at
The University of Freiburg.
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