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Turner, Jenia Iontcheva

Associate Professor of Law

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Bio

At Yale Law School, Professor Turner was a Coker Fellow and articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. In 2000, 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. From 2002 to 2004, Professor Turner served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught Legal Research and Writing and Comparative Criminal Procedure. Her teaching and scholarship interests include criminal law and procedure and comparative and international public law.

Primary Articles

Defense Perspectives on Law and Politics in International Criminal Trials, 48 VA. J. INT'L. L. 529 (2008).

Transnational Networks and International Criminal Justice, 105 MICH. L. REV. (2007).

Judicial Participation in Plea Negotiations: A Comparative View, 54 AM. J. COMP. L. 99 (2006).

Nationalizing International Criminal Law, 41 STAN. J. INT'L L. 1 (2005).

Jury Sentencing as Democratic Practice, 89 VA. L. REV. 311 (2003), cited in Wright & Miller, 3 FED. PRAC. & PROC. CRIM.2D 526 (West Supp. 2003).

 

Books

Plea Bargaining Across Borders (Aspen Global Dimension Series, forthcoming 2009).

 

Speeches/Presentations

Defense Counsel Views on the Law and Politics in International Criminal Trials.

  • Roundtable in Public International Law & Theory, Washington University Law School, Jan. 17-19, 2008
  • New Voices in Human Rights, AALS Annual Meeting, New York City, Jan. 4, 2008.
  • Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, Nov. 9, 2007.
  • SMU Dedman School of Law Faculty Forum, Oct. 4, 2007.
  • Texas Junior Legal Scholars Conference, Texas Wesleyan Law School, Aug. 11, 2007.
  • Law & Society Annual Meeting, Humboldt University, Berlin, July 25, 2007 (sponsored by SMU University Research Council grant).
  • Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable, Yale Law School, Mar. 9, 2007
  • Faculty Workshop, U.C. Davis Law School, Mar. 7, 2007.
  • Faculty Workshop, Vanderbilt University Law School, Sept. 7, 2006.

Plea and Confession Bargaining in Bulgaria, XIIth Annual Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 22, 2006.

Transnational Networks and International Criminal Justice, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Baltimore, July 9, 2006.

Rule of Law and Human Rights—Keys to Equitable Development, 2006 SMU International Law Review Association Colloquium, Law, Culture, and Economic Development, Mar. 7, 2006.

The Role of Transnational Networks in International Criminal Law, Presentation at the International Legal Theory Roundtable, Vanderbilt University Law School, Sept. 16-17, 2005.

Can We Manage Plea Bargaining Better? Insights from Germany, Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Las Vegas, June 4, 2005.

True Complementarity: Mixed Panels and Joint Prosecutions at the ICC, Presentation at the New Voices Forum of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., Apr. 1, 2005.

Nationalizing International Criminal Law, Presentation at the 18th International Conference of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 8-12, 2004.

 

Other

Justice, Rule of Law, and Economic Reconstruction in Post-Conflict States, in LIBER AMICORUM FOR HON. ROBERTO MACLEAN (Joseph Norton & C. Paul Rogers eds.) (British Institute of Int'l & Comp. Law, 2008).

Transnational Networks and International Public Order, in PROGRESS IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (Russell Miller & Rebecca Bratspies eds.) (Brill Acad. / Martinus Nijhoff Pubs., 2008).

Book Review, 121 Pol. Sci. Q. 526 (2006) (reviewing ROBERT CRYER, PROSECUTING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES (2005)).

Implementing Blakely, 17 FED. SENT. REP. 106 (Dec. 2004).

Case Note, Sovereignty on Our Terms, 110 YALE L.J. 885 (2001), cited in In re Vitamins Litigation, No. 99-1977FH, 2001 WL 1049433 (D.D.C. June 20, 2001).

Book Review, 26 YALE J. INT'L L. 529 (2001) (reviewing WILLIAM SCHABAS, GENOCIDE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2000)).

Book Review, 26 YALE J. INT'L L. 265 (2001) (reviewing PAUL J. MAGNARELLA, JUSTICE IN AFRICA (2000)).

Update of Current Legal Proceedings at the ICTY, 13 LEIDEN J. INT’L L. 597 (2000).

 



Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

B.A. (International Relations, with honors), 1999, Goucher College;
Caplan Scholar, Cambridge University, 1997-98;
J.D., 2002, Yale Law School