Sandra worked at the US Department of State in the Bureau of
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Sandra worked at the US Department of State in the Bureau of
Professor Dr. Sandra Bunn-Livingstone, Esq. is Chief Executive Officer & General Counsel of Jus Cogens Law in Washington, DC and Geneva, Switzerland, a firm she founded to provide legal assistance to victims of human rights violations worldwide. She received her PhD in international law from Cambridge University in 1999, after LL.M. Studies (London School of Economics), earning a J.D. (Pepperdine School of Law), Diploma (Salzburg, UOP), Cert. (Warsaw & Moscow Universities, USD) and B.A. (Claremont, Wheaton, Oxford University). A legal practitioner and scholar with expertise in International, Treaty, European, Commercial, Corporate, Islamic, and Human Rights Law, from 1996-2005, Sandra was a Law Professor at Cambridge University in International, Corporate, Commercial, and European Law for the Law and International Relations Faculties, and five Cambridge colleges. She sat on the Law Faculty Board and was a Fellow of the Cambridge Law Faculty for a combined 10 years. Dr. Bunn-Livingstone was a Professor of English in Inner Mongolia, China for two years, and has worked in six law firms from Los Angeles, Chicago, and London to South Africa, including Baker McKenzie, Field, Fisher, Waterhouse, Webber Wentzel, Barnes, Richardson, Colburn and Erskine Chambers. Sandra worked at the US Department of State in the Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor as Leader of both the IRF Multilateral Affairs and European Affairs Divisions, receiving the prestigious State Department Meritorious Honor Award for “Extraordinary Performance in Support of United States Efforts in the United Nations Human Rights Council,” during the tenure of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Sandra has been a legal consultant in D.C. for an Initiative working on Muslim-Christian-Jewish Interfaith Dialogue for Ambassadors, Congressmen and Senators, Chief Operating Officer and Legal Counsel for a Washington D.C. non-profit working for disadvantaged youth, Executive Director of a Washington D.C.-based international human rights NGO, and has been an active member of the California Bar for 24 years. She is often called to testify as an international law expert before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Armed Services Committee and House Human Rights Committee, and is a frequent keynote speaker on human rights and international law around the globe. Her recent book, Juricultural Pluralism Vis-à-Vis Treaty Law, has a forward by President Emeritus of the International Court of Justice, Sir Robert Jennings, and is an exposé on how culture influences the way in which nation states practice international human rights law. Dr. Bunn-Livingstone sits on the Boards of multiple U.S. and international companies, organizations and academic institutions, and has been selected annually for Who’s Who In The World and Who’s Who in Finance and Business since 2002. Dr. Bunn-Livingstone has also been Adjunct Professor of International Human Rights Law at George Mason University School of Law, and is President/CEO of Freedom³, heading up the IAM4Us Campaign to stop genocide against Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq.