Stephen Sawyer

Northwestern Law School Teaching Responsibilities

Sawyer presents four seminar courses at the Law School, two in the fall and two in the spring, and has taught sessions of courses in International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law.

Center for International Human Rights Responsibilities

Sawyer’s CIHR responsibilities include service on an international panel enquiring into allegations of official collusion by the U.K. in human rights crimes in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and his participation in numerous conferences in this country and abroad on issues of public international law.

Sawyer is a faculty participant at the Europe-based Summer Course on International Human Rights sponsored by the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and Northwestern University.

Prior Professional Experience

Prior to coming to Northwestern, Sawyer engaged in a broad practice of law, including service as a prosecutor in the Manhattan Office of the District Attorney, trying murder and official corruption cases, as deputy to the New York City deputy mayor for Criminal Justice, handling budget review and operations planning for NYC criminal justice agencies, and, most recently, as assistant general counsel at a large multinational corporation. At the corporation, Sawyer was chief litigation counsel, served as the company’s primary liaison with federal and state governmental agencies on competition issues, acted as the company’s antitrust compliance officer, and managed labor, employment and environmental issues.