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.