Professional profile
Margaret M. deGuzman is James E. Beasley Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple Law School. She is also a judge of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals.
She specialises in criminal law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law and transitional justice. Professor deGuzman is a Senior Peace Fellow at the Public International Law and Policy Group, a consultant with Global Rights Compliance, and serves on the editorial board of the African Journal of International Criminal Justice.
She previously served as a legal advisor to the Senegal delegation at the Rome Conference on the International Criminal Court and as a law clerk in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in Darou Ndiar, Senegal.
Professor deGuzman received a Ph.D. in Human Rights from the National University of Ireland, Galway; a J.D. from Yale Law School; an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.