Zachary Daniel Kaufman, a graduate of Yale University, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School, is a 2009-10 law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. At the same time, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Puerto Rico Law School and completing his D.Phil (PhD) degree in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar from 2002-05.

Mr. Kaufman's research focuses on international relations history and theory; United States foreign policy; transitional justice (particularly the prevention and cessation of and recovery from genocide and other atrocities, and the history and operation of domestic, hybrid, and international war crimes tribunals); international law (especially international humanitarian and criminal law); the international relations of Africa; Rwandan history, politics, and culture; and social entrepreneurship.

Mr. Kaufman is the co-editor (with Dr. Phil Clark) and co-author of After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond (Columbia University Press and C. Hurst & Co., 2009). Mr. Kaufman's research and commentary have also appeared in other publications, including the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Yale Law & Policy Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, the St. Antony's International Review (University of Oxford journal of international relations), Criminal Law Forum (official journal of the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law), the Jerusalem Post (Israel newspaper), the Liberian Times (Liberia newspaper), the New Times (Rwanda newspaper), Central African Magazine, the Broward Times (South Florida newspaper), the Dominion Post (West Virginia newspaper), the Maccabean (Jewish newspaper of Western Australia), the Bulletin (publication of the Association of Commonwealth Universities), Pharma Pricing & Reimbursement (pharmaceutical trade journal in the United Kingdom), the Yale Daily News (daily student-run newspaper at Yale University), the Yale Herald (weekly student-run newspaper at Yale University), the Voice: A Forum on Race for the Yale and New Haven Communities, Kigali Public Library Newsletter, Marshall Update: News for Marshall Scholars, and the Humanity in Action Reports.

A recurring commentator on Voice of America, Mr. Kaufman is a frequent speaker on issues he researches and works on. He has served as a guest lecturer at various universities, including The College of William & Mary, the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Dartmouth College (including its Tuck School of Business), the London School of Economics and Political Science, Nottingham Law School, Oxford University (including its Corpus Christi College, Magdalen College, St. Antony's College, Rhodes House, and Manor Road Building), Stanford University (including its Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and School of Medicine), the United States Naval Academy, the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Yale University (including its Law School, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Sterling Memorial Library, and Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life). Mr. Kaufman has also spoken at popular forums such as the Embassy of the Republic of Rwanda in Washington, DC; the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution in The Hague, The Netherlands; the International Youth Assembly of the YMCA-YWCA in Sweden; Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Towers in New York City; Rotary International (including its Clubs in Cambridge and Oxford, United Kingdom, and Kigali, Rwanda, and at its International Convention in Barcelona, Spain); the Kigali Public Library, the Hotel Novotel Kigali Umubano, the Residence of the United States Ambassador, and The Tuesday Forum Show on Rwandan television in Kigali, Rwanda; and the Yale Club of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Kaufman's professional experience has focused on the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of suspected perpetrators of atrocities, including genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and terrorism. He has served at the United States Department of State, the United States Department of Justice, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Mr. Kaufman also was the first American to serve at the International Criminal Court, where he was policy clerk to the first Chief Prosecutor.

Mr. Kaufman has also worked in the private sector on legal and political issues. He has worked as a Summer Associate in the Washington, DC office of the international law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP. He has also worked on Google's Global Public Policy and Government Affairs team at Google's global headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Mr. Kaufman spends much of his time on non-profit, public service, and community service activities. He is the founder, president, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Kigali Public Library and an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Kigali-Virunga, Rwanda. Together, these non-profit organizations are fundraising and collecting books for, raising public awareness about, and building Rwanda's first public library, the Kigali Public Library. Mr. Kaufman is a Board Member and Senior Fellow of Humanity in Action, which, in order to engage student leaders in the study and work of human rights, sponsors an integrated set of education programs and internships for university students in Europe and the United States. Additionally, Mr. Kaufman is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University, a non-profit organization that governs Yale University's Hillel. Mr. Kaufman also serves as a consultant on other non-profit and social entrepreneurial ventures. From 2008 until their successful election as the president and vice president of the United States, Mr. Kaufman was a member of the Obama-Biden Campaign's Africa Policy Team.

In 2009, Mr. Kaufman received his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School, where he was was named an Olin Fellow of the Yale Law School John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy. At Yale Law School, Mr. Kaufman served as Editor-in-Chief and, previously, Policy Editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review; Managing Editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal; Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law; co-founder and co-president of Yale Law Social Entrepreneurs; co-president of the Yale Jewish Law Students Association; member of the Non-Profit Organizations Clinic; and Graduate Affiliate and Graduate Fellowship Affiliate of Saybrook College, Yale University.

During the 2005-06 academic year, Mr. Kaufman was a Fellow at Stanford University, in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). In 2004, Mr. Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations from the University of Oxford. In 2000, Mr. Kaufman received his B.A. (Bachelor's) degree in Political Science from Yale University, where he was the student body president, a freshman residential counselor, co-captain of the Yale wrestling team, and an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association.