About Us

Faculty & Institute Staff

Faculty

M. Cherif Bassiouni, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D., LL.D. Hon. (Mult.)
President
(312) 362-5922
cbassiou@depaul.edu

Institute Staff

Charles E. Tucker, Jr., B.A., J.D.
Executive Director
(312) 362-8039
ctucker4@depaul.edu

Charles E. Tucker, Jr. is the Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI).

Chuck is a 1982 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law (JD) and a 1979 graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA, Government). Prior to joining IHRLI, he served as a Senior Field Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, where he helped oversee the NLRB General Counsel’s adjudication of complex labor rights cases.

For more than 20 years, Chuck has been an international rule of law and humanitarian law practitioner, mostly as an active duty and reserve Air Force Judge Advocate (JAG). He has routinely been seconded to the US State Department and various International Organizations. He served multiple tours of duty with the United Nations in various countries and served as Economic and Legal Adviser for the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also served as an International Law Adviser in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense. Additionally, he served as Military Legal Adviser for the US Ambassador in Iraq, as well as for State Department and DOD missions in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Central and South America.

Chuck is a member of the Air National Guard and holds the rank of Brigadier General. He currently serves as Chief of Staff of the Wisconsin Air National Guard where he acts as principal advisor to the Wisconsin Deputy Adjutant General for Air regarding the administration, operation, training, tactical employment, maintenance and supply of all Air National Guard units within the State. He has previously been named as the Air National Guard’s Outstanding Judge Advocate of the year.

Chuck is an accomplished lecturer and has authored numerous manuals on international legal matters, mostly for the military and the UN. He has served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the US Air Force Academy, as well as Course Director of the Academy’s Comparative International Law Program. He is the founding Co-Editor of the USAFA Journal of Legal Studies. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Management for Bradley University and as an Adjunct faculty member for Wayland College.

Daniel Rothenberg, M.A., Ph.D. (exp)
Managing Director of International Projects
(312) 362-5355
drothenb@depaul.edu

Daniel Rothenberg is the Managing Director of International Projects. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. He works on transitional justice issues, particularly truth commissions, amnesty laws, tribunals, and reparations. He is the author of With These Hands and editor of the forthcoming Guatemala: Memory of Silence, a one-volume critical version of the Guatemalan Truth Commission report. Rothenberg has conducted extensive fieldwork in many regions of the world.

Ajitha Reddy, A.B., J.D.
Deputy Executive Director
(312) 362-6795
areddy6@depaul.edu

Ajitha Reddy received an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University and a J.D. from University of Michigan Law School. She is an adjunct professor at the College of Law and has taught Legal Profession and Immigration Law. She also taught in the Death Penalty Clinic in 2006-2007. Prior to working at DePaul College of Law, Ms. Reddy practiced immigration law in Chicago, founded and managed a grassroots organization advocating universal health care, and taught in a high school for formerly incarcerated adults.