Tiffany N Basciano

Expertise

Topics

• Human Rights
• International Crimes and Tribunals
• Refugees and Migration
• Rule of Law

Background and Education

Tiffany Basciano is the Associate Director of the International Law and Organizations Program. As Associate Director, she has organized and led several Starr Foundation sponsored study trips to South and Southeast Asia, including to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. In organizing these trips, she generates contacts and schedules briefings with representatives from the US government, foreign governments, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and the private sector to discuss issues of great importance to the respective countries and international community. She also supervises the production of study trip-related research papers.

Ms. Basciano is also a Professorial Lecturer in the International Law and Organizations Program, where she directs the International Human Rights Clinic, is the lead coach for the SAIS International Criminal Court Moot Team, and co-instructs introductory international law courses. In 2010, she founded the Practicum: International Human Rights Advocacy (now the International Human Rights Clinic) to offer an experiential learning course in human rights protection and promotion. For the past several years, the clinic has used a fact-finding and reporting model producing several reports under her supervision. Recent clinic projects include reports on the regularization and naturalization processes in the Dominican Republic (2014 – 2015); on the migration crisis along the Dominican Republic-Haiti border (2015 – 2016); and on the human rights of forest defenders in Kenya, Peru, and Sri Lanka (2016 – 2017).

Her academic interests include international human rights law, rule of law development, and transitional justice. In October 2016, Ms. Basciano spoke on the EU migration crisis at the Juneau World Affairs Council, World Affairs Forum, as well as on KTOO public radio in Juneau, Alaska.

Prior to joining SAIS, Ms. Basciano interned at a consumer advocacy organization. She has additional work experience as: a legal intern in the Legislative & Correctional Issues Branch in the Office of General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Prisons; a summer graduate intern with the New York City Law Department – Office of The Corporation Counsel - Family Court Division (Brooklyn); and a law clerk in a plaintiffs’ litigation firm.

Ms. Basciano received her BA, cum laude, in Politics and History from New York University, and her JD, with honors, from The George Washington University Law School. While at GW Law, she attended the GW-Oxford Summer Program in International Human Rights Law. She is also a member of the California Bar.