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2003 - 2004 Public Policy Fellow: Kristen Boon

The Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership takes pleasure in announcing the appointment of Kristen Boon as its 2003 - 2004 Public Policy Fellow.

"Ethical Considerations of International Intervention and Governance" will explore the intersection between ethics and international law as it relates to (i) the moral foundation for armed international intervention in the absence of international consensus, and (ii) the ethical obligations which arise in the administration of territories in post-conflict situations.

A current Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie, Kristen holds a BA (first class honours) and an MA degree from McGill University and a J.D. (cum laude) from New York University School of Law. Kristen is admitted to the Bar of New York and is preparing for her bar examinations in Ontario. She is an alumna of the Parliamentary Internship Programme, and a former Junior Fellow of NYU's Center for International Studies. She is also a member of the American Society of International Law, the Canadian Council on International Law and both the American and New York Bar Associations.

Prior to her clerkship, she worked as a Litigation Associate in the International Practice Group at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. In this capacity, she was on a team which secured a US$350 million UNCITRAL arbitration award against the Czech Republic, assisted the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in a proceeding against Haiti before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and assisted Eritrean Plaintiffs in a class action filed in Washington DC against the State of Ethiopia. She was also a short-term Legal Officer with the Central Civil Registry at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and a Member of the Human Rights Watch delegation to the 1998 International Criminal Court Diplomatic Negotiations in Rome. Fluent in French, Kristen is active in fitness pursuits and the arts. Kristen is originally from Kelowna, B.C.

Ms. Boon's publications include Rape and Forced Pregnancy Under the ICC Statute: Human Dignity, Autonomy and Consent, Vol. 32 No. 3 Columbia Human Rights Law Journal (2001); A Response to the American Position on the International Criminal Court, European Journal of International Law (1999) (co-author); and "Instances of International Criminal Courts" in Delegating State Powers (Thomas Franck, ed. 2000).

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