Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University) in New York. She founded and directs the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic and also serves as faculty director of the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR). Her teaching and scholarship sit at the intersection of international human rights law, public health, and atrocity prevention, with particular attention to preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based crimes, slavery and the slave trade, genocide, Indigenous rights, and abuses against minority groups. Through the clinic she has led fact-finding and advocacy projects on four continents and in more than ten countries, including work on persecution as a crime against humanity, early-warning risk analysis, and environmental and rights assessments alongside Indigenous communities in Brazil. Her writing on accountability and the codification of international crimes connects directly to her Mondial article on including the slave trade within the Rome Statute and the draft articles on crimes against humanity. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University (2000), a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2007), and a J.D. from Cornell Law School (2008). She is also affiliated with the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.
