Jenia Iontcheva Turner, an SMU law professor whose research interests were shaped by her childhood in Bulgaria, will deliver the Nov. 5 Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility’s public ethics lecture on “Ethical Dilemmas of International Criminal Defense Attorneys in War Crime Trials.”
The lecture is scheduled for noon in SMU’s Hughes-Trigg Student Center’s West-Central Ballroom, and is free and open to the public. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served at 11:30 a.m.
Professor Turner teaches criminal procedure, comparative criminal procedure, international criminal law, and international organizations. Before joining SMU, she served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught legal research and writing and comparative criminal procedure.
Professor Turner attended law school at Yale, where she was a Coker Fellow and articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. After her first year of law school, she was a summer clerk at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the following summer, she worked at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Houston and the New York and Paris offices of Debevoise & Plimpton.
Professor Turner’s scholarship interests include comparative and international criminal law and procedure. Her articles have appeared in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Virginia Journal of International Law, and the Stanford Journal of International Law. She has just completed a textbook exploring plea bargaining from a comparative perspective.
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