Lisa Davis
Guest Contributor
Lisa Davis is Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Programs, Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law. They serve as Special Adviser on Gender and Other Discriminatory Crimes to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor and drafted the ICC’s first policy on the crime of gender persecution. An internationally recognized expert on gender-based crimes in conflict and crisis, Davis helped shape the ICC’s Afghanistan arrest warrants, the first to recognize persecution of LGBTQI+ people as a crime against humanity, as well as landmark gender persecution charges at Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
