Margaret M. deGuzman is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She also serves as a judge of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, where she currently sits on the Trial Chamber in The Prosecutor v. Félicien Kabuga.
Professor deGuzman’s research focuses on international criminal law, international humanitarian law, human rights, and transitional justice. Her scholarship examines how international criminal law shapes – and is shaped by – the broader global legal order. In addition to her work in international law, she teaches a course on Mindful Lawyering, which explores how mindfulness practices can support ethical, client-centered, and resilient legal practice.
She is the author of Shocking the Conscience of Humanity: Gravity and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2020), and co-editor of The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Court (with Valerie Oosterveld, Edward Elgar Publishing 2020), and Arcs of Global Justice: Essays in Honour of William A. Schabas (with Diane Marie Amann, Oxford University Press 2018). Her work has also appeared in leading journals and edited volumes, including the Journal of Criminal Law and Philosophy, Virginia Journal of International Law, and Yale Journal of International Law.
Professor deGuzman is a Senior Peace Fellow at the Public International Law and Policy Group, and a board member of the Center for International Law and Policy in Africa.
Before joining the Temple Law faculty, she clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced criminal defense law in San Francisco. She also served as legal advisor to the Senegal delegation at the Rome Conference on the ICC and as a law clerk in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Darou Ndiar, Senegal.
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