Zachary D. Kaufman

Zachary Daniel Kaufman (born February 17, 1979) is a legal academic and social entrepreneur.

Current Positions / Affiliations

Kaufman is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1] In addition, he is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[2] a Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies,[3] and a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project.[3]

Previous Positions / Fellowships

From 2016 to 2017, Kaufman will serve as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow.[4]

From 2015 to 2016, Kaufman served as a Fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[5]

From 2014 to 2015, Kaufman served as a Fellow at the United States Supreme Court.[6]

From 2005 to 2006, Kaufman served as a Fellow at Stanford University, in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).[7]

Awards

Kaufman has received recognition for his academic and public service work, including:

Education

Kaufman is a graduate of Suncrest Middle School, Shady Side Academy, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar),[11][12] and Yale Law School.

While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president[13][14] and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team.[15][16][17] He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association.[18] He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000.[19]

In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he served on the Executive Committee of the Magdalen College Trust, his residential college's grant-making charity.

In 2009, Kaufman received his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review.[20][21]

In 2012, Kaufman received his D.Phil (PhD) degree in International Relations from the University of Oxford.[22]

Scholarship

Kaufman is an author and lecturer.

To date, Kaufman has published three books. He is the author of United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics.[23] He is the co-editor (with Dr. Phil Clark) and co-author of After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond.[24] He is also the editor and co-author of Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World.[25]

Kaufman’s research and commentary have also appeared in a variety of other publications, including the New York Times,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] the Washington Post,[34] the Yale Law & Policy Review,[35] the Yale Journal of International Law,[36][37] the Harvard International Law Journal,[38] the Yale Human Rights & Development Review,[39] the Emory International Law Review,[40] and others.[41]

Kaufman has delivered speeches and lectures at a variety of institutions around the world, including at law schools, political science departments, public policy schools, and business schools in the United States (e.g., Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, Columbia University, New York University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Dartmouth College, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, United States Naval Academy, American University) and abroad (e.g., University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London, University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies).

Founding of the Kigali Public Library

Kaufman was instrumental in the founding of the Kigali Public Library (also known as Rwanda Library Services),[42][43][44][45] which is Rwanda’s first public library.[46] The library became operational in April 2012, offering 12,000 books.[47] Kaufman is the founder, president, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Kigali Public Library and an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Kigali-Virunga, Rwanda.[48]

Other Notable Public Service Activities

Other public service activities in which Kaufman is engaged include his service as:

Representative Publications

Books

Journal Articles - Academic

Journal Articles - Practitioner

Book Chapters

Book Reviews

References

  1. ↑ "Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government - Senior Fellow - Zachary Kaufman". carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  2. ↑ "Membership Roster".
  3. 1 2 "Zachary D. Kaufman | Activities". www.zacharykaufman.com. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  4. ↑ "Council on Foreign Relations - International Affairs Fellowship". Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  5. ↑ "Zachary D. Kaufman - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs". belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  6. ↑ "The Supreme Court Fellows Program - Press Release - Zachary D. Kaufman - Supreme Court of the United State". www.supremecourt.gov. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  7. ↑ "FSI - CDDRL".
  8. ↑ "Zachary D. Kaufman | Awards & Honors". www.zacharykaufman.com. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  9. ↑ "Zachary D. Kaufman". 5 September 2011.
  10. ↑ "Senior Fellow Awards - Humanity in Action".
  11. ↑ "Four From Yale Named Marshall Scholarship Winners." Yale News Release. 7 December 2001. http://news.yale.edu/2001/12/07/four-yale-named-marshall-scholarship-winners
  12. ↑ "Scholar Names H-L".
  13. ↑ "The YCC: serving the Yale community with leadership - Summer 1999".
  14. ↑ "Financial aid in a changing Ivy world - Mar 4, 1999".
  15. ↑ "Club Corner: Wrestling - Feb 18, 2000".
  16. ↑ "Wrestlers coach themselves to national honors - Apr 2, 1999".
  17. ↑ "Four from Yale Named Marshall Scholarship Winners".
  18. ↑ "After championship win, wrestlers look ahead - Mar 27, 1998".
  19. ↑ "Yale Bulletin and Calendar".
  20. ↑ "Yale Law & Policy Review" (PDF).
  21. ↑ "Yale Law & Policy Review" (PDF).
  22. ↑ http://www.zacharykaufman.com/bio.html
  23. ↑ "United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics - Zachary D. Kaufman". www.transitionaljustice-book.com. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  24. ↑ After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond (Columbia University Press and C. Hurst & Co., 2009, http://www.aftergenocide.com/
  25. ↑ Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World (Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012), http://www.socialentrepreneurship-book.com
  26. ↑ “If Not Peace, Then Justice.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times Magazine. 16 April 2006: 8. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6DF1F30F935A25757C0A9609C8B63
  27. ↑ “Young Americans, Doing Good.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 24 March 2006: A20. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E1DC1730F937A15750C0A9609C8B63
  28. ↑ “What Does a Terrorist Look Like?” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 31 July 2005: Week in Review, 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/opinion/l31profile.html
  29. ↑ “Darfur, Now That We Know . . .” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 24 February 2005: A22. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/opinion/l24kristof.html?pagewanted=print&position=
  30. ↑ “An African Tragedy.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 27 March 2004: A14. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/opinion/l-an-african-tragedy-968633.html
  31. ↑ "Hunting War Criminals." Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 26 April 2003: A28. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/26/opinion/l-hunting-war-criminals-419486.html
  32. ↑ “U.S. and Iraq: The Ground Shifts.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 19 September 2002: A30. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/opinion/l-us-and-iraq-the-ground-shifts-959820.html
  33. ↑ “Other Forms of Justice.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 19 December 2000: A30. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/19/opinion/l-other-forms-of-justice-044369.html
  34. ↑ "Open Books." Letter to the Editor. Washington Post. 2 September 2006: A28. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101439.html
  35. ↑ "Transitional Justice Delayed is not Transitional Justice Denied: Contemporary Confrontation of Japanese Human Experimentation During World War II Through a People's Tribunal." Yale Law & Policy Review. Vol. 26, Issue 2 (Spring 2008). 645-59.
  36. ↑ Kaufman, Zachary (2015). "From the Aztecs to the Kalahari Bushmen - Conservative Justices' Citation of Foreign Sources: Consistency, Inconsistency, or Evolution?". Yale Journal of International Law Online. 41.
  37. ↑ "No Right to Fight: The Modern Implications of Japan's Pacifist Postwar Constitution." Yale Journal of International Law. Vol. 33, Issue 1 (Winter 2008). 266-73.
  38. ↑ "The United States, Syria, and the International Criminal Court: Implications of the Rome Statute’s Aggression Amendment.” Harvard International Law Journal. Volume 55 (2013). 1-14. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2367262.
  39. ↑ Review of Designing Criminal Tribunals: Sovereignty and International Concerns in the Protection of Human Rights, by Steven D. Roper and Lilian A. Barria. Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal. Vol. 10 (2006-07): 209-14.
  40. ↑ Kaufman, Zachary (2013). "Transitional Justice for Tojo's Japan: The United States Role in the Establishment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and other Transitional Justice Mechanisms for Japan". Emory International Law Review. 27 (2).
  41. ↑ http://www.zacharykaufman.com/pub.html
  42. ↑ "HIA Senior Fellow Zachary Kaufman Building Rwanda's First-Ever Public Library - Humanity in Action".
  43. ↑ "Professor shares about building first Rwandan library".
  44. ↑ http://www.shadysideacademy.org/uploaded/Alumni/Magazine/SSA_Magazine_Summer-13.pdf
  45. ↑ "Yale Bulletin and Calendar".
  46. ↑ "kigalilibrary.org - This website is for sale! - kigalilibrary Resources and Information.".
  47. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/201204180385.html
  48. ↑ "kigalilibrary.org - This website is for sale! - kigalilibrary Resources and Information.".
  49. ↑ "Officers & Directors: Association of Marshall Scholars".
  50. ↑ "Harvard Social Enterprise Law Association - Our Board". 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  51. ↑ "Senior Fellows Zachary Kaufman and Kuong Ly Named "Top 99 Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders" - Humanity in Action".
  52. ↑ http://www.indegoafrica.org/team
  53. ↑ http://www.genocidewatch.org/aboutus/directorsandadvisors.html
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