Alex Whiting

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

Research Interests

• International Humanitarian Law
• Procedures of International Criminal Tribunals
• Prosecutorial Ethics

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Criminal Law
• International Humanitarian Law
• Prosecutorial Ethics

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Criminal Trials
• Prosecutorial Ethics
• War Crime Prosecutions

Education

• Yale University B.A. 1986, History
• Yale Law School J.D. 1990

Practice Information

1991-1995: Trial Attorney, Criminal Section of Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice; 1995-2002: Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts; 2002-2007: Trial Attorney and Senior Trial Attorney, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), The Hague, The Netherlands.

Representative Publications

• Whiting, Alex. "In International Criminal Law, Justice Delayed Can be Justice Delivered," 50 Harvard International Law Journal 323 (2009).
  
• Whiting, Alex. "How Prosecutors Should Exercise Their Discretion Now that the Sentencing Guidelines are Advisory," 8 Issues in Legal Scholarship Article 2 (2009).
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• Whiting, Alex. "Note: Controlling Tin Cup Diplomacy," 99 Yale L. J. 2043 (1990).
  
• Whiting, Alex. Covert Operations and the Democratic Process: The Implications of the Iran-Contra Affair (Center for National Security Studies, Washington, D.C. 1987).
  

Bibliography

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