Saira Mohamed is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of international law, criminal law, and human rights, and her scholarship focuses on conceptions of responsibility and culpability in war and collective violence. Her current research addresses states’ obligations toward their own military service members under domestic and international law. Saira has published widely in edited volumes and top law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and California Law Review, and she is the editor of Arthur Ripstein’s Rules for Wrongdoers: Law, Morality, War. Saira is a recipient of the Berlin Prize and spent the fall 2023 semester as the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She 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 Moscow Mechanism of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
