Mark Steven Ellis
| Dr Mark Steven Ellis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 April 1957 |
| 🏡 Residence | London, United Kingdom |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | United Kingdom, United States of America |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Executive Director of the International Bar Association, International Criminal Law Expert |
| 🏡 Home town | Washington D.C. |
| 👶 Children | 1 |
Mark Steven Ellis (born April 19, 1957) is the current Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA).
From 1989 to 2000, Ellis was Executive Director of the American Bar Association (ABA) Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI).[1]
Ellis is the current Chair of the UN-created Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defence Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. Until 2012, he also served as a member of the Advisory Panel to the Defence Counsel for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in The Hague.[2]
From 1999 to 2000, Ellis acted as Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, chaired by Justice Richard J. Goldstone, and was appointed by the OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia’s War Crimes Tribunal.[1] He was involved with the trial of Saddam Hussein and also acted as legal advisor to the defense team of Nuon Chea at the Cambodian War Crimes Tribunal (ECCC). In 2013, Ellis was admitted to the List of Assistants to Counsel of the International Criminal Court.[2]
He is a former adjunct professor at Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Washington, DC, and a current adjunct professor at Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida.[3]
Career
Executive Director, American Bar Association (ABA) Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI)
In 1989, Ellis became the first Executive Director of the American Bar Association (ABA) Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI), since 2007 part of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI). ABA CEELI was created after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the purpose of providing international legal technical assistance to countries in Europe and Eurasia.[3] When the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) conducted its first trial, Ellis initiated and oversaw an assistance program for the defence team.[4] Ellis was later appointed by the Tribunal as a member of the Disciplinary Advisory Panel to the Defence Counsel for the ICTY and ICTR.[5] He later became President of the Coalition for International Justice (CIJ).[3]
Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo
The Independent International Commission on Kosovo (IICK), chaired by Justice Richard J. Goldstone, was a commission established in August 1999 in the aftermath of the Kosovo War. Ellis joined the IICK as a legal advisor and assisted the twelve-member commission in examining key developments prior to, during, and after the Kosovo war, including systematic violations of human rights in the region.[4]
Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA)
In 2000, Ellis became the Executive Director of the International Bar Association, the largest international organization of bar associations and individual lawyers, comprised of 203 bar associations and 80,000 individual members from 194 countries.
Under the umbrella of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Ellis originated the IBA’s International Criminal Court (ICC) Programme in The Hague, to monitor fair trial and defence related issues at the ICC.[6] Ellis was also responsible, in partnership with Twanda Mutasah, for the creation of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) - an organisation dedicated to the training and support of lawyers litigating human rights and rule of law issues, a joint project of the IBAHRI and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA).[7]
During the setup of the Iraqi High Tribunal that tried Saddam Hussein, Ellis created an initiative to train and advise the Tribunal's judges and prosecutors, with support from the British Foreign Office (FCO).[8]
Moreover, Ellis conceived and set in motion the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), headquartered in Stockholm. ILAC provides initial assessments of what is needed to rebuild workable justice systems in post-conflict countries.[9]
Academic activities
Ellis received two Fulbright scholarships to the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia. From 1993 to 1997, Ellis was Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. In 2010, Ellis was named Adjunct Professor at Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, where he co-teaches a course on International Human Rights Law.[3]
In 2015, he delivered the Lauterpacht Lecture at the University of Cambridge and in the same year, delivered the Distinguished Jurist Lecture at McGeorge School of Law (2015). In 2014, he delivered the Klatsky Lecture in Human Rights at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Ellis is a member of the Editorial Board of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law and of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.[3]
Awards
In 1998, Ellis received the American Bar Association’s World Order Under Law Award. In 2010, he was recognized by Lawyer Magazine as one of the top 100 lawyers in the UK. In October 2014, Ellis received the United States Department of State Recognition of lifelong commitment to the Rule of Law and contributions to international legal reform.
In 2006, Ellis became a member of the Advisory Panel to the Defence Counsel for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).[3]
In 2013, he was admitted to the List of Assistants to Counsel of the International Criminal Court.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mark S. Ellis | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Mark S. Ellis Biography IBA". International Bar Association. 2018-02-04. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Mark Ellis Long Resume" (PDF). Casematrix Network. 2009-04-01.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Goldstone, Richard (2000). For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300132085. Search this book on
- ↑ Ellis, Mark (2009). "Rule of Law Symposium - Searching for the Meaning of the Rule of Law: Finding Extraordinary People". Minnesota Journal of International Law. 18: 425–430 – via Heine Online.
- ↑ "IBA International Criminal Court and International Criminal Law (ICC & ICL) Programme". Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ↑ "Zimbabwe: IBA Urges South Africa to Act On Human Rights Dossier". Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ↑ Newton, Michael; Scharf, Michael (2008). Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein. Saint Martin's Press Inc. ISBN 0312385560. Search this book on
- ↑ "ILAC: all change". Retrieved 2018-06-06.
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