Gabor Rona, J.D., Ll.M., has been a legal advisor in the Legal Division of the International Committee (ICRC) of the Red Cross for 5 years. He frequently lectures at international conferences and has recently written articles appearing in the Fletcher Forum on World Affairs, the Chicago Journal of International Law, and the Financial Times on the role of the laws of armed conflict and on judicial guarantees in the U.S.’s so-called Global War on Terror. He is of Hungarian origin, having escaped with his family in the aftermath of the October 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University (1973), and law degrees from Vermont Law School (J.D., 1978) and Columbia University School of Law (LL.M., 1996). Before moving to the ICRC in Geneva, he spent 15 years as a partner in a small civil and criminal litigation firm in Vermont and two years as a Senior Litigator in international human rights cases at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York.