Ibrahim Gassama
Interim Director, Center for International Human Rights
Visiting Professor of Law

Phone
312-503-2224
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Related Links
Center for International Human Rights
Assistant
Georgia Tankard
Assistant Phone
Assistant Email
georgia.tankard@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Ibrahim Gassama, a native of Sierra Leone, has worked for over three decades on human rights, foreign policy, and international economic development issues. These issues led him to recruit and train observers for elections in Haiti and South Africa in the 1990s, including South Africa's first all-race democratic election. In some cases, he served as an observer himself.
Areas of Expertise
- International Criminal Law
- International Law
- Torts
- Human Rights Law
- International Organizations Law
Courses
Selected Publications
- Tort Law and Practice, 6th ed. (2020) (with Dominick Vetri, Lawrence C. Levine, Joan E. Vogel & Carol M. Suzuki).
- International Law, Colonialism, and the African, in The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History 551, edited by Martin Shanguhyia & Toyin Falola (2018).
- Bandung 1955: The Deceit and the Conceit, in Bandung, Global History, and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures 126, edited by Luis Eslava, Michael Fakhri & Vasuki Nesiah.
- Ballots and Bullets: The Right to Democratic Governance in International Law After the Egyptian Coup, 32 Wisconsin International Law Journal 621 (2014).
- The Incoherence and Functional Incompetence of International Law: Toward a New Paradigm of Human Relationship, 37 Fordham International Law Journal 53 (2013).
- Dealing with the World as It Is: Reimagining Collective International Responsibility, 12 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 695 (2013).
Education
- BA, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- JD, Harvard Law School
Prior Appointments
- Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law