Dan Saxon
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. D.R. Saxon
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9503
- d.r.saxon@luc.leidenuniv.nl
Dan Saxon was an Assistant Professor of International Justice at Leiden University College from 2013 – 2017 and returned to teaching at LUC in 2022. He has taught courses in international criminal law, international humanitarian law and international human rights law, Legal Methods, as well as a course called "Impunity: Law, Philosophy and Policy."
Dan Saxon was an Assistant Professor of International Justice at Leiden University College from 2013 – 2017 and returned to teaching at LUC in 2022. He has taught courses in international criminal law, international humanitarian law and international human rights law, Legal Methods, as well as a course called "Impunity: Law, Philosophy and Policy." Saxon received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University in 1981, his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 1988, his LLM in International Human Rights Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1995, and his PhD in Public International Law from Leiden University in 2016. For nearly 30 years, Saxon has investigated and prosecuted serious international crimes. From 2017 – 2022, Saxon served as the Senior Legal Adviser to the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office/Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague. In addition, Saxon was a prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for 12 years. He served as a senior prosecutor for the last four years of his tenure and led investigations and prosecutions of persons accused of crimes against humanity and violations of the laws of war. Saxon was the Legal Adviser to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry for Syria during 2011 and 2012. Saxon also has served as a visiting professor teaching international criminal law and international humanitarian law in the law faculties at the University of Cambridge and the University of Utrecht. He has trained judges, prosecutors and investigators from Colombia, Guatemala, the U.K. Libya and the Former Yugoslavia in the theory and practice of these fields of law and has lectured at numerous academic institutions in Europe and North America. In addition to his own research and publications, Saxon is a member of the board of academic advisors to the Cambridge Journal of International Law.
Courses
- International Human Rights
- Global Challenges 3: Justice
Assistant Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College
Distinguished Fellow
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College
- Saxon D.R. (2016), Violations of International Humanitarian Law by Non-State Actors During Cyberwarfare: Challenges for Investigations and Prosecutions, Journal of Conflict and Security Law 21(3): 555-574.
- Saxon D.R. (1 December 2016), Autonomous Weapon Systems, Human Dignity and International Law (Dissertatie. Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Law, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Stahn C.
- Saxon D.R. (2016), A Human Touch: autonomous weapons, DoD Directive 3000.09 and the interpretation of ‘appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force’. In: Bhuta N., Beck S., Geiβ R., Liu Hin-Yan & Kreβ C. (Eds.), Autonomous Weapons Systems: Law, Ethics, Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 185-208.
- Saxon D.R. (2014), A human touch: autonomous weapons, directive 3000.09, and the "appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force", Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 15(2): 100-109.
- Saxon D.R. (2005), Exporting justice: perceptions of the ICTY among the Serbian, Croatian, and Muslim communities in the former Yugoslavia, Journal of Human Rights 4(4): 559-572.