Nancy Combs
{{Short description|American legal scholar}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Nancy Combs
| discipline = Law
| sub_discipline = International law
| workplaces = William & Mary Law School
| education = University of Portland (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (JD)
Leiden University (PhD)
}}
Nancy Amoury Combs is an American legal scholar known for her work on international criminal law. She is Ernest W. Goodrich Professor of Law{{cite news|url=https://law.wm.edu/news/stories/2015/combs-appointed-goodrich-professor-of-law-at-william--mary.php|author=David F. Morrill|date=November 16, 2015|title=Combs Appointed Goodrich Professor of Law at William & Mary|publisher=William & Mary Law School|access-date=December 25, 2019}} and director of the Human Security Law Center and Cabell Research Professor at the William & Mary Law School.{{cite web|url=https://law2.wm.edu/faculty/bios/fulltime/ncombs.php|title=Nancy Combs|publisher=William & Mary Law School|access-date=January 13, 2020}}
Education
Combs has a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of Portland, a Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law, and a PhD from Leiden University.{{Cite web |title=SelectedWorks - Nancy Combs |url=https://works.bepress.com/nancy-combs/ |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=works.bepress.com}}
Career
Combs served as a law clerk for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. She joined the faculty at the William & Mary Law School in 2004.
Combs is the author of the books Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach (2007){{cite book|title=Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-8047-5352-4}} Reviews:
- {{citation|last=Rothenberg|first=D.|date=March 2008|doi=10.1093/ijtj/ijn003|issue=1|journal=International Journal of Transitional Justice|pages=117–119|title=none|volume=2}}
- {{citation|last=Chalmers|first=James|date=September 2009|doi=10.1177/1057567709335445|issue=3|journal=International Criminal Justice Review|pages=360–361|title=none|volume=19|s2cid=143508346}}
and Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions (2010).{{cite book|title=Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2010|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511760259|isbn=978-0-511-76025-9|last1=Combs|first1=Nancy A.|url=https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=popular_media}} Reviews:
- {{cite journal|last=Malone|first=Linda A.|doi=10.5305/amerjintelaw.105.4.0848|issue=4|journal=The American Journal of International Law|page=848|title=none|volume=105|year=2011|s2cid=227097431}}
- {{cite conference|last=Öberg|first=Marko Divac|doi=10.5305/procannmeetasil.105.0319|title=Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting|pages=319–321|publisher=Cambridge University Press|contribution="Fact-Finding Without Facts" from the perspective of the fact-finder|volume=105|year=2011}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fry|first=Jessica|date=May 2011|doi=10.1177/1057567711400364|issue=2|journal=International Criminal Justice Review|pages=178–180|title=none|volume=21|s2cid=145475071}}
- {{cite journal|last=Stephen|first=C.|date=May 2011|doi=10.1093/ejil/chr037|issue=2|journal=European Journal of International Law|pages=602–604|title=none|volume=22|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|last=Lyons|first=Beth S.|date=September 2011|doi=10.1080/14623528.2011.606696|issue=3|journal=Journal of Genocide Research|pages=287–312|title=Enough is enough: the illegitimacy of international criminal convictions|volume=13|s2cid=72756069}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Kiyani|first1=A.|last2=Tenove|first2=C.|date=October 2011|doi=10.1093/ijtj/ijr022|issue=3|journal=International Journal of Transitional Justice|pages=519–529|title=none|volume=5}}
- {{cite journal|last=Lincoln|first=Jennifer|doi=10.1163/157181212x634144|issue=2|journal=International Criminal Law Review|pages=301–303|title=none|volume=12|year=2012}}
See also
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