Though it is unlikely that the threat of prosecution under international law will stop Russian President Vladimir Putin, University of Utah Adjunct Professor of Law David Schwendiman says that Putin should be held accountable and that prosecuting atrocities in Ukraine is an international obligation.
David Schwendiman served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice for more than twenty-five years. He was an international prosecutor in the Special Department for War Crimes of the State Prosecutor’s Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Lead Prosecutor of the EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) overseeing the investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. He was the Chief Prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.
