Jeanne Sulzer is a nonresident senior fellow with the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council. Sulzer is the founding partner at Impact Litigation, where she serves as legal representative for victims in French universal jurisdiction cases before the Paris war crimes and crimes against humanity unit. She currently serves as a lecturer at Sciences-Po and Paris II Panthéon-Assas, where she teaches on international criminal law, strategic litigation, human rights, and prosecuting terrorism.
Sulzer has held senior positions at major international human rights organizations, including as head of law and policy at Amnesty International France and director of international justice with the International Federation for Human Rights. She also served as senior legal officer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia from 2008 to 2012, where she coordinated the civil party lawyers representing nearly four thousand civil parties in Case 002. Additionally, she has extensive experience advising UN bodies, including the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism’s Victims Unit, on legislation and policy for victims of conflict-related sexual violence and terrorism.
Sulzer holds a joint law degree in public international law and Anglo-American law from Université Paris Nanterre and an LLM in international legal studies from the Golden Gate University School of Law.