About Us
This is the on-line blog for the Duke TIP summer field study in the Hague. We will be posting student journal entries, commentaries, and photos on this website, which will be accessible to family and friends. Click on each day's webpage for a blog of the days events with photos. For even more photos go to http://picasaweb.google.com/DukeTIPHague/
INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF
Lead Instructor - Professor David J. R. Frakt
Professor Frakt has been the Director of the Criminal Law Practice Center at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, California since May 2005. In August 2010, he will join the faculty of the Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in Orlando, Florida. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Irvine and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. After clerking for the former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, he served nearly ten years on active duty with the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) before transitioning to the Air Force Reserve and becoming a law professor. From April 2008 to August 2009, Professor Frakt served as lead defense counsel with the Office of Military Commissions, representing two detainees at Guantanamo facing war crimes and terrorism charges before the U.S. military commissions. He was the first defense counsel to win the pretrial dismissal of all charges against his client, Mohammed Jawad, a juvenile from Afghanistan, and also won Mohammed's release through a habeas corpus petition in federal court. He was solo defense counsel in one of the only two military commission trials completed during President Bush's tenure in office. Professor Frakt is a highly regarded expert in the field of international war crimes, military law and military commissions and has been frequently quoted in the national media, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Miami Herald, The Nation Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly. 
He has written widely in both scholarly and popular periodicals. His articles and letters have been published in the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the American Journal of Criminal Law, as well as online on Salon.com, CNN.com, Huffington Post, and truthout.org. He has been a repeat guest on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, PRI's "The World" and on CNN. Professor Frakt teaching and scholarship areas are criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, international war crimes and international humanitarian law. Professor Frakt is married to Myla Remer, and has two sons, Max and Danny Photo-.Prof Frakt on Duke East Campus - First day of class 2009. Photo by Sana Shuja
Group Leader -
Elizabeth Fogle
Ms. Fogle is currently a Lecturer in English at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College and this is her fourth summer as a Group Leader for Duke TIP Field Studies. She received her undergraduate degree in English from The University of Georgia, her M.A. in Literature from Wake Forest University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Georgia College and State University.
Ms. Fogle is a working writer and has had poems published in such journals as Nimrod, Harpur Palate, and the Dos Passos Review. In 2009, she was a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry.
At Penn State, Ms. Fogle teaches Women's Studies and Technical Writing courses to Science students and worked as Technical Writer and Graphic Designer at the Georgia Division of Public Health before returning to Academia. Ms. Fogle's educational interests outside of her creative work include fostering student responsibility, ethics in the sciences, visual rhetoric and gender studies.
Principal Teaching Assistant - Jessica Dorsey
Jessica returns for her second year as teaching assistant for this program. She recently earned cum laude honors through the completion of an LL.M. (advanced law degree) in Public International Law at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. .
Her academic focus was on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law while she worked part-time for the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights and Global Human Rights Defence, an NGO based in the Hague. Her thesis research centered on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine and the ongoing discussion surrounding the notion of humanitarian intervention. In 2008, she received her J.D. from Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, where she earned a Certificate in International and Comparative Law, with distinction. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Kansas in 2004, where she was on the varsity soccer team. Jessica is moderately fluent in Dutch and Spanish and is currently attempting to master FrenchJessica checking out the reading material at the local bookshop.
Residential Counselor and Teaching Assistant –Monica "Nick" Beard (photo coming soon)
An Irish-American, Monica splits time between Hockessin, Delaware and Dublin, Ireland. She received her LL.B. from Trinity College, University of Dublin Ireland, in December 2009 and will pursue an advanced law degree in European Law with a human rights focus starting this fall at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She has extensive experience with high school age students. She is a matron (sort of a house mother) at The Rathdown School, an all girls boarding school in Ireland, loves cats and is conversant in Spanish.