Saira Mohamed is Professor of Law and Agnes Roddy Robb Chair in Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Social Responsibility at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Mohamed teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and human rights, with a focus on armed conflict and mass atrocity crimes. Her current research project addresses the legal obligations of governments toward their own military personnel. Her scholarship has been published top journals, including the Columbia Law Review and Yale Law Journal. She was awarded the Berlin Prize in 2023 and is the recipient of several scholarship awards. Mohamed is a Vice President of the American Society of International Law, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an appointed expert for the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism. Mohamed previously served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and was an Attorney-Adviser for human rights and refugees in the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser. Mohamed is a graduate of Columbia Law School, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Yale College.