Susan Benesch is Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York, where she directs the project “Dangerous Speech on the Road to Mass Violence,” funded by grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Fetzer Institute. She currently teaches as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the American University School of International Service, has taught human rights and refugee law at AU’s Washington College of Law, Georgetown and Princeton, among other universities, and has lectured at schools including Yale, Duke, and Johns Hopkins. She has also worked at the Center for Justice and Accountability, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Her publications related to speech include Propaganda, War Crimes Trials & International Law: From Speakers’ Corner to War Crimes (Routledge, 2011 – forthcoming chapter); The ICTR’s Prosecution of a Pop Star: The Bikindi Case, African Yearbook of International Law (forthcoming); Vile Crime or Inalienable Right: A Model to Distinguish Hate Speech from Incitement to Genocide, 48 Virginia Journal of International Law 485 (2008); and "Inciting Genocide, Pleading Free Speech", World Policy Journal, Summer 2004.

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