B.A. (International Relations, with honors), 1999, Goucher College; Caplan Scholar, Cambridge University, 1997-98; J.D., 2002, Yale Law School
Jenia Iontcheva Turner is an Associate Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, where she teaches criminal procedure, comparative criminal procedure, international criminal law, and international organizations. Before joining SMU, Professor Turner served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught legal research and writing and comparative criminal procedure. Professor Turner attended law school at Yale, where she was a Coker Fellow and articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. After her first year of law school, she was a summer clerk at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the following summer, she worked at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Houston and the New York and Paris offices of Debevoise & Plimpton.
Professor Turner’s scholarship interests include comparative and international criminal law and procedure. Her articles have appeared in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Virginia Journal of International Law, and the Stanford Journal of International Law. She recently completed a textbook exploring plea bargaining from a comparative perspective and is working on an article about legal ethics for international prosecutors and an article about the expressive dimension of EU criminal law.
Professor Turner is a Council Member of the International Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. She also serves as a member of the International Expert Framework, which is a group of scholars and practitioners working to develop general principles of international criminal procedure.
Legal Ethics in International Criminal Defense, 10 CHI. J. INT'L. L. 685 (2010). International Decision, Civil Party Participation in Provisional Detention Appeals, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, 103 AM. J. INT’L L. 116 (2009)
Defense Perspectives on Law and Politics in International Criminal Trials, 48 VA. J. INT'L. L. 529 (2008).
Transnational Networks and International Criminal Justice, 105 MICH. L. REV. 985 (2007).
Judicial Participation in Plea Negotiations: A Comparative View, 54 AM. J. COMP. L. 199 (2006). Book Review, 121 POL. SCI. Q. 526 (2006) (reviewing ROBERT CRYER, PROSECUTING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES (2005)).
Nationalizing International Criminal Law, 41 STAN. J. INT'L L. 1 (2005). Implementing Blakely, 17 FED. SENT. REP. 106 (2004)
Jury Sentencing as Democratic Practice, 89 VA. L. REV. 311 (2003), cited in Wright & Miller, 3 FED. PRAC. & PROC. CRIM.2D 526 (West Supp. 2003). cited in United States v. Khan, 325 F. Supp. 2d 218 (E.D.N.Y. 2004); LAFAVE ET AL., 5 CRIM. PROC., § 26.2 (2d ed. 2005) (transl. by Hon. Yasushi Katada in the Japanese-Am. Soc. Legal Stud. J.) Case Note, Sovereignty on Our Terms, 110 YALE L.J. 885 (2001), cited in In re Vitamins Litigation, No. 99-1977FH, 2001 WL 1049433 (D.D.C. June 20, 2001). Book Review, 26 YALE J. INT'L L. 529 (2001) (reviewing WILLIAM SCHABAS, GENOCIDE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2000)). Book Review, 26 YALE J. INT'L L. 265 (2001) (reviewing PAUL J. MAGNARELLA, JUSTICE IN AFRICA (2000)). Update of Current Legal Proceedings at the ICTY, 13 Leiden J. Int’l L. 597 (2000).
Negotiated Justice in International Criminal Cases, Report for the International Expert Framework on International Criminal Procedure (forthcoming 2012) (co-authored with Prof. Thomas Weigend). Prosecutors and Bargaining in Weak Cases: A Comparative View, in Transnational Perspectives on Prosecutorial Power (Erik Luna & Marianne Wade eds., forthcoming Oxford UP 2011). PLEA BARGAINING ACROSS BORDERS (Aspen 2009) (with Teacher's Manual) Justice, Rule of Law, and Economic Reconstruction in Post-Conflict States, inLiber Amicorum for Hon. Roberto MacLean (Joseph Norton & C. Paul Rogers eds.) (2008). Transnational Networks and International Public Order, in Progress in International Organizations (Russell Miller & Rebecca Bratspies eds.) (2008).
The Expressive Dimension of EU Criminal Law, AALS Annual Meeting, Comparative Law Section, Jan. 8, 2011. Prosecutors and Bargaining in Weak Cases: A Comparative View, Washington & Lee Law School, Roundtable on Prosecutorial Discretion, Apr. 2, 2010. Negotiated Justice at International Criminal Tribunals, International Expert Framework on International Criminal Procedure, The Hague Institute for Internationalization of the Law, The Hague, Netherlands, June 27, 2009, and Jan. 23, 2009.
Ethics for International Criminal Defense, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 29, 2009.
Ethical Dilemmas for International Criminal Defense Attorneys, International Law Colloquium, Northwestern Law School, Apr. 6, 2009.
Moderator, Addressing Corruption on a Global Basis, Annual Institute, State Bar of Texas International Law Section, Houston, TX Mar. 5, 2009.
Ethical Dilemmas for International Criminal Defense Attorneys, Junior International Law Scholars Conference, Temple Law School, Feb. 13, 2009.
Moderator, Transnational Networks and International Cooperation: Contributions and Challenges, The Rise of Transnational Networks Conference, SMU Dedman School of Law, Nov. 7, 2008.
Participant, Workshop on Sociolegal Methods in International Law, University of Pittsburgh Law School, Sept. 4-5, 2008.
Plea Bargaining Across Borders: Introducing a Global Dimension to Criminal Procedure Classes, SMU Dedman School of Law Faculty Forum, Aug. 27, 2008.
Discussant, Challenging the National/International Distinction, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, May 31, 2008.
Two Models of Plea Bargaining: The United States and Germany, Presentation to Delegation from Indonesia, Rule of Law Forum, SMU Dedman School of Law, May 25, 2008.
Defense Counsel Views on the Law and Politics in International Criminal Trials.
Plea and Confession Bargaining in Bulgaria, XIIth Annual Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 22, 2006.
Transnational Networks and International Criminal Justice, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Baltimore, July 9, 2006.
Rule of Law and Human Rights—Keys to Equitable Development, 2006 SMU International Law Review Association Colloquium, Law, Culture, and Economic Development, Mar. 7, 2006.
The Role of Transnational Networks in International Criminal Law, Presentation at the International Legal Theory Roundtable, Vanderbilt University Law School, Sept. 16-17, 2005.
Can We Manage Plea Bargaining Better? Insights from Germany, Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Las Vegas, June 4, 2005.
Prosecutors and Bargaining in Weak Cases: A Comparative View, in TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROSECUTORIAL POWER (Erik Luna & Marianne Wade eds., Oxford UP, forthcoming 2011). International Decision, Civil Party Participation in Provisional Detention Appeals, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, 103 AM. J. INT'L L. 116 (2009).
Negotiated Justice in International Criminal Cases, Report for the International Expert Framework on International Criminal Procedure (forthcoming 2010) (co-authored with Thomas Weigend).
Compulsory Measures in the American Criminal Justice System (solicited chapter in book on comparative criminal procedure, Professor Song Yinghu, ed., Beijing Normal University, China) (forthcoming 2009).
Justice, Rule of Law, and Economic Reconstruction in Post-Conflict States, in LIBER AMICORUM FOR HON. ROBERTO MACLEAN (Joseph Norton & C. Paul Rogers eds.) (British Institute of Int'l & Comp. Law, 2008).
Transnational Networks and International Public Order, in PROGRESS IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (Russell Miller & Rebecca Bratspies eds.) (Brill Acad. / Martinus Nijhoff Pubs., 2008).
Book Review, 121 Pol. Sci. Q. 526 (2006) (reviewing ROBERT CRYER, PROSECUTING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES (2005)).
Implementing Blakely, 17 FED. SENT. REP. 106 (Dec. 2004).
Case Note, Sovereignty on Our Terms, 110 YALE L.J. 885 (2001), cited in In re Vitamins Litigation, No. 99-1977FH, 2001 WL 1049433 (D.D.C. June 20, 2001).
Book Review, 26 YALE J. INT'L L. 529 (2001) (reviewing WILLIAM SCHABAS, GENOCIDE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2000)).
Book Review, 26 YALE J. INT'L L. 265 (2001) (reviewing PAUL J. MAGNARELLA, JUSTICE IN AFRICA (2000)).
Update of Current Legal Proceedings at the ICTY, 13 LEIDEN J. INT’L L. 597 (2000).