Dermot’s career has been dedicated to accountability, truth, and justice, from his early work as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to human rights investigations in

Jamaica and Cambodia, and his more than a decade-long service as a senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Our conversation ranged from the development of international criminal law across legal traditions to the challenges facing multilateral institutions, the doctrines of joint criminal enterprise and command responsibility, and the urgent work of training Ukrainian prosecutors and judges. We also discussed the growing importance of authenticated video archives and evidentiary infrastructure in an age of AI-generated media.

Dermot closes with a powerful reflection on vocation, reinvention, and principled lawyering. I hope you’ll watch.