Morten Bergsmo

About

Morten Bergsmo is Visiting Professor, Peking University Law School; Visiting Fellow, Stanford University; Senior Researcher, University of Oslo; and ICC Consultant. He was formerly Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (2010–12); Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, EUI (2011 Spring); Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley (2010 Spring); Senior Researcher, PRIO (2006-9); Special Adviser to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution of Norway (2007–8); Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, ICC Office of the Prosecutor (2002–5); Co-ordinator of the establishment of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor (2002–3); Legal Adviser, ICTY (1994–2002); and Legal Adviser, UN Commission of Experts for the Former Yugoslavia established pursuant to Security Council resolution 780 (1992) (1993–4). He represented the ICTY to the UN negotiation process to establish the ICC (1996–2002). He has pioneered the democratization of access to international law sources, and to this end he directs the ICC's Legal Tools Project and founded the capacity development organization CMN (www.casematrixnetwork.org). He also founded and directs the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law (www.fichl.org), and is Editor-in-Chief of the Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (www.fichl.org/toaep/).