CHARLES WILLIAM BROOKS

Education

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D., 1974.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Department of History, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1974.
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, B.A. summa cum laude, 1964.

Legal Experience

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.
Senior Attorney, International Prisoner Transfer Unit, Office of Enforcement Operations, Criminal Division, 1997-present. The Unit administers the treaties which govern the transfers of foreign nationals in American prisons to serve their sentences in their home countries and American nationals in foreign prisons to serve their sentences in the United States. Work involves dealing with the State Department and foreign governments on issues involving both individual prisoners and the governing treaties. Have represented the United States at Council of Europe meetings of the Committee of Experts on the Operation of European Conventions in the Penal Field and of the full European Committee on Crime Problems in Strasbourg (France). Resident Legal Adviser, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Fall 1998. Detailed to Bosnia by the Department of Justice to work with the Ministry of Justice of the Bosnian Federation on the introduction of the (then) recently adopted criminal code (which replaced the Communist-era Yugoslav criminal code) and to plan a training program with the Ministry for judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys on the new criminal law and procedure and on practice in Western criminal justice systems. Worked with the Federation Minister of Justice, senior appellate judges, the public prosecutor, and other members of the local legal community; work also involved coordinating U.S. efforts with other international agencies involved in law reform in Bosnia, including the Office of the High Representative, the UN Mission to Bosnia, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Senior Trial Attorney, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 1986-97. Responsibilities included representing the United States in criminal and civil trials in federal courts throughout the country to enforce the statutes concerning endangered and other protected species. Specially assigned to represent the United States in Mississippi v. United States, a Supreme Court Original Action involving the seaward boundary of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico. Assistant Director, Office of Legal Education (secondment). In charge of civil and appellate training for Assistant United States Attorneys throughout the United States. Responsibilities included designing and implementing, and occasionally lecturing in, basic advocacy courses and various advanced courses in federal practice and procedure. Supervised a revision of the basic civil advocacy course and developed a new course on federal civil practice for experienced trial attorneys newly hired by the Department. Developed and edited a manual on Federal Civil Practice for use as a Department training text and wrote the chapter on attorneys= fees. Received Special Achievement Award and Special Award from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, D.C.
Assistant United States Attorney, 1977-86. Represented the United States in numerous criminal jury trials in the U.S. District Court and D.C. Superior Court, and appeared in the criminal and civil appellate cases in the U.S. and D.C. Courts of Appeals. Served in the Career Criminal Unit, which prosecuted serious felonies committed by repeat offenders and handled all preventive detention cases. Served as Chief of the Misdemeanor Special Litigation Section.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.
Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, 1974-77; Chief enforcement officer of the Paramount movie industry decrees, 1975-77.

Legal Teaching

Have taught trial practice at the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop, Cambridge, Mass., the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, and at the Hastings (University of California) Center for Trial Advocacy, San Francisco, Cal. Have lectured regularly on topics in American constitutional and criminal law and procedure at Oxford University, Oxford, England, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, and Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Have lectured occasionally on topics in American constitutional and criminal law and procedure, the protection of human rights in the US and American federalism in Europe and Asia, often under the sponsorship of the US Department of State. Have lectured, and prepared written outlines for training manuals, in training programs on legal issues in law enforcement for American and Canadian law enforcement personnel.

Other Teaching Experience

1965-1972 St. Antony's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Senior Fellow (Modern European History); Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., City College of New York, New York, N.Y.: taught courses in modern European history, intellectual history, French history and literature, and the history of the French film.

Books and recent articles

America in France=s Hopes and Fears, 1890-1920 (New York and London: Garland, 1987). Edited original edition of Federal Civil Practice (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1990), a training text for Department of Justice attorneys; wrote, and have periodically updated, the chapter on attorneys= fees. The Criminal Process in the United States,@ Apontamentos de Direito Processual Penal, ed. by Teresa Belesa (Lisbon: Associacao Academica Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, 1993), the criminal law textbook used by the law faculty of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). A Judicial Power and Legislative Prerogative,@ Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 39.3 (1994), an analysis of the Yonkers and Kansas City desegregation cases, based on a talk given at a University of Goettingen (Germany) conference on German and American federalism. ACourts-Martial on Film,@ Military Justice Gazette, no. 66 (June 1999). Outlines on American criminal procedure for the Government Law College in Delhi, India, and on American criminal law and the jury system for the Turkish Bar Association in Istanbul, Turkey.