ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Senior Fellow
Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
January 2003-September 2003

Project Focus

International Prosecutors and Judges in Post-Conflict Societies

Areas of Specialization

Balkans • Middle East • South Asia • Terrorism • International Organized Crime • Rule of Law • Peacemaking and Peacekeeping • International Courts and Prosecutors • Civil-Military Relations • Transitional Justice • Human Rights • War Crimes • Comparative Legal Systems

Background

Michael E. Hartmann was the first UN-appointed international public prosecutor for Kosovo (February 2000-January 2003). His responsibilities included presenting cases to Kosovo's Supreme Court and investigating and prosecuting instances of genocide, war crimes, terrorism, and ethnic hate crimes. He also contributed to Kosovo working groups on legislation addressing organized crime, terrorism, covert measures, immunity and protection of witnesses, human trafficking, and domestic and sexual violence.

Hartmann previously served with the UN as judicial systems officer in charge of the Brcko and Doboj Regions (1998-2000) and as Sarajevo field representative for the UN Centre for International Crime Prevention (1998). His work as a Sarajevo-based criminal law legal specialist for the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative (1997) led him to work closely with legislative experts from the Council of Europe and with Bosnian prosecutors.

As a Fulbright Scholar in criminal law at the University of Punjab (1995-96), Hartmann worked on issues of violence against women and criminal legislative reform in Pakistan. He has also served as an academic specialist on United States Department of State-sponsored programs in India, Pakistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, Jordan, Nepal, and Tanzania. His United States experience includes service as assistant district attorney for San Francisco (1983-98), and as an adjunct law faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley (1994-97), the University of San Francisco (1993-96), and the University of California at San Francisco (1992-95). He holds a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

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