Christian De Vos is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at CUNY School of Law’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, where he lectures and supervises student projects. Previously, he was the director of research and investigations at Physicians for Human Rights and, prior to that, he was a senior advocacy officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative, where he worked across the Open Society Foundations’ network to advance a broad range of human rights issues, principally through strategic litigation, research, and legal advocacy.

Christian has published widely in the fields of human rights and international criminal law. He coedited the volume Contested Justice: The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions (Cambridge Press, 2015) and his book, Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance: The International Criminal Court in Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo(Cambridge Press, 2020), won the “Book of the Year” Award from the International Law Association’s American Branch. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the American Society of International Law’s Insights series. Christian received his JD from the American University Washington College of Law and his PhD from the University of Leiden. A member of the New York bar, he teaches international human rights law at Columbia.