Nancy Amoury Combs is an American legal scholar known for her work on

international criminal law International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetrati ...

. She is Ernest W. Goodrich Professor of Law and director of the Human Security Law Center and Cabell Research Professor at the

William & Mary Law School The William & Mary Law School, known historically as the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, is the professional graduate law school of the College of William & Mary. Located in Williamsburg, Virginia, the school is the oldest extant law school in th ...

Education

Combs has a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the

University of Portland , mottoeng = The truth will set you free , established = 1901 , type = Private university , religious_affiliation = Catholic (Congregation of Holy Cross) , endowment = $218 million , president = Robert D. Kelly , students = 3,731 (fall 20 ...

, a

Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...

from the

UC Berkeley School of Law The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (commonly known as Berkeley Law or UC Berkeley School of Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It is one of 1 ...

, and a PhD from

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

Career

Combs served as a law clerk for Judge

Diarmuid O'Scannlain Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain ( ; born March 28, 1937) is a Senior Status, Senior United States federal judge, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His chambers are located in Portland, Oregon, ...

Supreme Court Justice

Anthony Kennedy Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated to the court in 1987 by Presid ...

. She joined the faculty at the William & Mary Law School in 2004. Combs is the author of the books ''Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach'' (2007) and ''Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions'' (2010). Reviews: * * * * * * *

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