Susan Benesch is senior legal advisor to the Center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco. She has taught human rights and refugee law at Georgetown and American University among others, and has lectured at universities including Virginia, Duke, Princeton, and Yale. She has also worked at Amnesty International, at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), and at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Her recent publications include 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.

She covered Latin America as a journalist in the 1990s. She was staff writer for the Miami Herald in Haiti, covered wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, and reported from many countries for the New Republic, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Crimes of War, among other publications.

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