About Us

Faculty & Institute Staff

Faculty

M. Cherif Bassiouni, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D., LL.D. Hon. (Mult.)
President Emeritus
(312) 362-8322
cbassiou@depaul.edu

Institute Staff

Charles E. Tucker, Jr., B.A., J.D.
Executive Director
(312) 362-8039
ctucker4@depaul.edu

Major General (Retired) Charles E. Tucker (USAF) is the Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Institute. For more than 25 years, he has been an international rule of law and humanitarian law practitioner. He was routinely seconded to the US State Department and various International Organizations. He served multiple tours of duty with the United Nations in various countries and served as Economic and Legal Adviser for the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also served as an International Law Adviser in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense. Additionally, he served as Legal Adviser for the US Ambassador in Iraq, as well as for State Department and DOD missions in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Central and South America. He was named the Air National Guard’s Outstanding Judge Advocate. In his civilian capacity, he served as a Senior Field Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, where he oversaw the NLRB General Counsel’s adjudication of complex labor rights cases.

Chuck is an accomplished lecturer and has authored numerous manuals on international legal matters. He was an Assistant Professor of Law at the US Air Force Academy, as well as Course Director of the Academy’s Comparative International Law Program. He is the founding Co-Editor of the USAFA Journal of Legal Studies. And he served as Adjunct Professor of Management for Bradley University and as an Adjunct faculty member for Wayland College. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA, Government), a 1982 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law (JD) and a 2003 graduate of the US Air War College.

Prior to his military retirement, Chuck was Director of Joint Doctrine, Training and Force Development for the National Guard Bureau. He was responsible for developing training and exercise policies/programs to ensure joint units of the National Guard were ready to respond to their homeland defense and homeland security missions. He oversaw the Joint Commander Training Course, the Joint State Staff Officer Course, and the National Guard Homeland Defense & Joint Interagency Training Centers. He also formulated Joint Professional Military Education policy and coordinated review of all Joint Professional Military Education curricula.

Daniel Rothenberg, M.A., ABD (exp)
Managing Director of International Projects
(312) 362-5355
drothenb@depaul.edu

Daniel Rothenberg is the Managing Director of International Projects. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. He works on transitional justice issues, particularly truth commissions, amnesty laws, tribunals, and reparations. He is the author of With These Hands and editor of the forthcoming Guatemala: Memory of Silence, a one-volume critical version of the Guatemalan Truth Commission report. Rothenberg has conducted extensive fieldwork in many regions of the world.

Kari Kammel, A.B., M.A., J.D.
Deputy Executive Director
(312) 362-5385
kkammel@depaul.edu

Kari Kammel is the Deputy Executive Director of IHRLI. She received her J.D. from DePaul College of Law, cum laude with a specialization in International and Comparative Law; an M.A. in International Human Rights Law from the American University in Cairo, cum laude; and an A.B. with honors from The University of Chicago in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. At DePaul, she was a Senior Text Editor on the DePaul Journal of Healthcare Law, a Health Law Fellow, and a Sullivan Human Rights Law Fellow. She is admitted to the Illinois Bar. She has also researched and published articles relating to the Law and the Middle East.

Courses: International Human Rights Law and Policy Colloquium