Lindsay Freeman, JD, LLM,
Senior Legal Researcher, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law
Lead Drafter, International Protocol on Open Source Investigations

International criminal and human rights lawyer based in The Hague, Netherlands, with expertise in digital evidence and the use of new technologies to investigate and prosecute war crimes and human rights abuses. Her current research focuses on open source investigations for legal accountability, developing standards for new types of evidence in international criminal proceedings, and examining how next generation military technology is transforming the battlefield and the court room. She has worked in prosecutor’s offices at the state, federal and international level, including as a law clerk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a trial attorney at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, and as the Assistant Research and Development Officer for Investigations at the International Criminal Court. Her past cases range from public corruption, financial crimes and fraud to human trafficking, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. She was previously a Legal Fellow at the International Bar Association’s International Criminal Law Programme and has worked on human rights and rule of law projects in Peru, Guatemala, Cambodia, and Tanzania. Prior to law school, she worked for four years in the technology industry at Google and Ning. She is currently getting her Adv. LLM at Leiden University, and holds a JD from University of San Francisco School of Law and a BA from Middlebury College.