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ANNA CAVE

Anna Cave photoAnna Cave is a Franklin Fellow in the Office of War Crimes Issues (S/WCI). Cave has advised on a variety of issues relating to domestic and international human rights and humanitarian law, including war crimes tribunals and the ICC, transitional justice and justice sector-reform, political asylum and gender-based persecution, FGM, forced evictions and resettlements, and wrongful conviction. She has collaborated with grassroots and international NGOs and academic human rights institutions, including HRW, PILPG, ICTJ, the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, Fordham Law School's Leitner Center for International Law & Justice, Timap for Justice, Salvation Centre Cambodia, Sanctuary for Families, and the Innocence Project in New York. She has also co-led fact-finding missions with the Leitner Center International Human Rights Clinic to Sierra Leone and Cambodia.

Ms. Cave is a co-author of forthcoming publications on grassroots efforts to eradicate FGM in Sierra Leone and forced eviction in Cambodia. She previously practiced in the litigation department of the international law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she initiated the firm's international pro bono practice. Ms. Cave clerked for Judge Lawrence McKenna in the Southern District of New York and is a member of the N.Y. State Bar. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School (J.D.), where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a recipient of a Skadden Law Student Fellowship, and Duke University (B.A.).