Zachary D. Kaufman

Zachary Daniel Kaufman (born February 17, 1979) is a legal academic and social entrepreneur. He has received recognition for his academic and public service work, including being named one of the “Top 99 Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders” by Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) and The Diplomatic Courier,[1] and receiving the Dr. Louis Rabineau Award from Humanity in Action.[2] Kaufman is currently a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School,[3] a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School,[4] an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs,[5] and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[6]

Education

Kaufman is a graduate of Suncrest Middle School, Shady Side Academy, Yale University, and the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar),[7][8] and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale, Kaufman was the student body president[9][10] and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team.[11][12][13] He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association.[14] He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000.[15]

In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he served on the Executive Committee of the Magdalen College Trust, his residential college's grant-making charity.

During the 2005 to 2006 academic year, Kaufman was a Fellow at Stanford University, in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).[16]

In 2009, Kaufman received his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review.[17][18]

In 2012, Kaufman received his D.Phil (PhD) degree in International Relations from the University of Oxford.[19]

Scholarship

Kaufman is an author and lecturer. He is the co-editor (with Dr. Phil Clark) and co-author of After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond.[20] He is also the editor and co-author of Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World.[21]

Kaufman’s research and commentary have also appeared in a variety of other publications including the New York Times,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] the Washington Post,[30] the Yale Law & Policy Review,[31] the Yale Journal of International Law,[32] the Harvard International Law Journal,[33] the Yale Human Rights & Development Review,[34] and others.[35]

In addition to publishing, Kaufman has delivered speeches and lectures at a variety of institutions around the world. Many of his recent talks have focused on social entrepreneurship or issues pertaining to the Rwandan genocide. For example, on February 7, 2013, he spoke at Yale Law School about “Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities."[36]

Founding of the Kigali Public Library

Kaufman was instrumental in the founding of the Kigali Public Library (also known as Rwanda Library Services),[37][38][39][40] which is Rwanda’s first public library.[41] It became operational in April 2012, offering 12,000 books.[42] Kaufman is the founder, president, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Kigali Public Library and an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Kigali-Virunga, Rwanda.[43]

Other Notable Public Service Activities

Other public service activities in which Kaufman is engaged include his service as member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Marshall Scholars,[44] as a Board Member and Senior Fellow of Humanity in Action,[45] as chair of the Board of Advisers of Indego Africa,[46] and as a member of the Board of Advisors of Genocide Watch.[47]

Representative Academic Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

References

  1. ↑ http://www.diplomaticourier.com/lists/top-99-under-33/2011/963-zachary-d-kaufman
  2. ↑ http://www.humanityinaction.org/pages/81-senior-fellow-awards
  3. ↑ http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/13753.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.harvardiglp.org/visiting-researcher-profiles/
  5. ↑ http://elliott.gwu.edu/faculty/parttime_k.cfm
  6. ↑ https://secure.www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=K
  7. ↑ "Four From Yale Named Marshall Scholarship Winners." Yale News Release. 7 December 2001. http://news.yale.edu/2001/12/07/four-yale-named-marshall-scholarship-winners
  8. ↑ http://www.marshallscholarship.org/scholars/profiles/2002scholars/h-l
  9. ↑ http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/1999/justdoit/p56YCCtools.html
  10. ↑ http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxvii/1999.03.04/front.html
  11. ↑ http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxix/2000.02.18/sports/p22wrestle.html
  12. ↑ http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxvii/1999.04.02/sports/p22wrestling.html
  13. ↑ http://news.yale.edu/2001/12/07/four-yale-named-marshall-scholarship-winners
  14. ↑ http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxv/3.27.98/sports/wrestlers.html
  15. ↑ http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v30.n14/story1.html
  16. ↑ http://cddrl.stanford.edu/people/zacharykaufman
  17. ↑ http://yalelawandpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Masthead_27_1.pdf
  18. ↑ http://yalelawandpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Masthead_27_2.pdf
  19. ↑ http://www.zacharykaufman.com/bio.html
  20. ↑ After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond (Columbia University Press and C. Hurst & Co., 2009, http://www.aftergenocide.com/
  21. ↑ Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World (Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012), http://www.socialentrepreneurship-book.com
  22. ↑ “If Not Peace, Then Justice.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times Magazine. 16 April 2006: 8. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6DF1F30F935A25757C0A9609C8B63
  23. ↑ “Young Americans, Doing Good.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 24 March 2006: A20. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E1DC1730F937A15750C0A9609C8B63
  24. ↑ “What Does a Terrorist Look Like?” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 31 July 2005: Week in Review, 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/opinion/l31profile.html
  25. ↑ “Darfur, Now That We Know . . .” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 24 February 2005: A22. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/opinion/l24kristof.html?pagewanted=print&position=
  26. ↑ “An African Tragedy.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 27 March 2004: A14. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/opinion/l-an-african-tragedy-968633.html
  27. ↑ "Hunting War Criminals." Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 26 April 2003: A28. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/26/opinion/l-hunting-war-criminals-419486.html
  28. ↑ “U.S. and Iraq: The Ground Shifts.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 19 September 2002: A30. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/opinion/l-us-and-iraq-the-ground-shifts-959820.html
  29. ↑ “Other Forms of Justice.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times. 19 December 2000: A30. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/19/opinion/l-other-forms-of-justice-044369.html
  30. ↑ "Open Books." Letter to the Editor. Washington Post. 2 September 2006: A28. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101439.html
  31. ↑ "Transitional Justice Delayed is not Transitional Justice Denied: Contemporary Confrontation of Japanese Human Experimentation During World War II Through a People's Tribunal." Yale Law & Policy Review. Vol. 26, Issue 2 (Spring 2008). 645-59.
  32. ↑ "No Right to Fight: The Modern Implications of Japan's Pacifist Postwar Constitution." Yale Journal of International Law. Vol. 33, Issue 1 (Winter 2008). 266-73.
  33. ↑ "The United States, Syria, and the International Criminal Court: Implications of the Rome Statute’s Aggression Amendment.” Harvard International Law Journal. Volume 55 (2013). 1-14. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2367262.
  34. ↑ Review of Designing Criminal Tribunals: Sovereignty and International Concerns in the Protection of Human Rights, by Steven D. Roper and Lilian A. Barria. Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal. Vol. 10 (2006-07): 209-14.
  35. ↑ http://www.zacharykaufman.com/pub.html
  36. ↑ http://www.yaleisp.org/event/zach-kaufman-09-talks-about-his-book-social-entrepreneurship-age-atrocities
  37. ↑ http://www.humanityinaction.org/news_and_events/10-hia-senior-fellow-zachary-kaufman-building-rwanda-s-first-ever-public-library
  38. ↑ http://blogs.gwhatchet.com/newsroom/2011/10/19/professor-shares-about-building-first-rwandan-library/
  39. ↑ http://www.shadysideacademy.org/uploaded/Alumni/Magazine/SSA_Magazine_Summer-13.pdf
  40. ↑ http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v36.n19/story4.html
  41. ↑ http://www.kigalilibrary.org/
  42. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/201204180385.html
  43. ↑ http://www.kigalilibrary.org/afkpl.html
  44. ↑ http://www.marshallscholars.org/about-officers.html
  45. ↑ http://www.humanityinaction.org/news_and_events/53-senior-fellows-zachary-kaufman-and-kuong-ly-named-top-99-under-33-foreign-policy-leaders
  46. ↑ http://www.indegoafrica.org/team
  47. ↑ http://www.genocidewatch.org/aboutus/directorsandadvisors.html
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