The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2 Vols.): Volume II: Prosecutor V. Norman, Fofana and Kondewa (the Cdf Case)

Charles Chernor Jalloh is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, U.S.A., where he teaches and researches in the areas of Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law and Public International Law. A member of the Ontario Bar in Canada, he has served as Legal Counsel in the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Canadian Department of Justice; Associate Legal Officer in Trial Chamber I at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; as the Legal Advisor and Duty Counsel in the Office of the Principal Defender, Special Court for Sierra Leone and as a Visiting Scholar in the Office of the Public Counsel for Defence at the International Criminal Court. Professor Jalloh, who has published widely in leading scholarly journals and edited the consolidated legal texts of the SCSL in 2007, is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed African Journal of Legal Studies, a member of the Advisory Panel to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Advisory Board of the War Crimes Committee, International Bar Association, an elected Co-Chair of the International Criminal Law Interest Group in the American Society of International Law and a Fellow of the Sierra Leone Institute of International Law. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies from the University of Guelph, Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees from McGill University with a focus on International and Comparative Law and a Master's in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford (Kellogg College). At Oxford, where he was a Chevening Scholar, his thesis assessed the contribution of the SCSL to the development of international criminal law. He graduated with distinction. Professor Jalloh is founding President of the Africa Law Institute, a legal and social science think tank based in The Gambia aimed at advancing good governance, human rights and the rule of law in Africa. Simon M. Meisenberg is currently a Legal Advisor to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia and a former Senior Legal Officer at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He joined the SCSL in January 2005, following a previous interval in 2003, and has assisted Trial Chamber I and II on the trials and judgements in Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara and Kanu, Prosecutor v. Sesay, Kallon and Gbao and Prosecutor v. Taylor. Before joining the SCSL, he worked as a legal assistant on a Defence Team at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and in a Trial Chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He has been associated with the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. He is a member of the German Working Group for International Criminal Law; the United Nations Association of Germany; the European Society of International Law, and the African Law Association. He has studied Law at the Universities in Trier, Bonn (Germany) and Lausanne (Switzerland) and is a qualified lawyer, holding the First and Second Legal State Examination, which qualify him for all judicial posts in Germany.