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)<br>University of California, Berkeley (JD)<br>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<ref>{{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}}</ref> and director of the Human Security Law Center and Cabell Research Professor at the William & Mary Law School.<ref name="profile">{{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}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SelectedWorks - Nancy Combs |url=https://works.bepress.com/nancy-combs/ |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=works.bepress.com}}</ref>

== Career == Combs served as a law clerk for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain and Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. She joined the faculty at the William & Mary Law School in 2004.<ref name="profile" />

Combs is the author of the books ''Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach'' (2007)<ref>{{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}}</ref> and ''Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions'' (2010).<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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