Jared Genser represents both national and international clients before Congress and the executive branch and counsels them on a variety of issues such as foreign affairs, appropriations, and international dispute resolution.

In 2006, Mr. Genser led a team of DLA Piper lawyers commissioned by former Czech Republic President Václav Havel, former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel to produce the report Failure to Protect: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in North Korea. In 2005, Mr. Genser led a team who were commissioned by President Havel and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu to produce the report A Threat to the Peace: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in Burma. Since that report's release, the situation in Burma was formally voted onto the Security Council agenda and has been discussed numerous times in the Security Council. Independently, Mr. Genser is also president of Freedom Now, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization which seeks to free prisoners of conscience around the world through legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts.

Mr. Genser taught "The UN Security Council in the 21st Century: Operations, Impact, and Reform," at the University of Michigan Law School in Winter 2008, and will be teaching the same class in Winter 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Previously, Mr. Genser was a non-residential Visiting Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy in 2006-2007. He is the recipient of the ABA's John Minor Wisdom Award for Public Service and Professionalism, the Pro Bono Solicitor of the Year (UK Law Society), and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Genser was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, the global strategic consulting firm. In addition, he formerly served as an assistant to the Political Advisor to the Mayor of Jerusalem, Israel.

REGISTRATIES

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• District of Columbia Court of Appeals
• Maryland Court of Appeals
• Supreme Court of England and Wales

Lidmaatschap

• President, Freedom Now
• Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
• Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations
• American Society for International Law
• American Bar Association, International Section
• D.C. Bar, International Section

Publicaties

Mr. Genser has published more than 30 op-eds in major newspapers around the world including the Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Business Day (Johannesburg), Diena (Riga, Latvia), Eesti Paevaleht (Talinn, Estonia), Far Eastern Economic Review, International Herald Tribune, Jakarta Post, Liberty Magazine, SME (Bratislava, Slovakia), South China Morning Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The Independent (UK), The Nation (Bangkok), The Star (Johannesburg), Wall Street Journal Asia, Washington Post, and Washington Times.

Seminars

• "The Situation in Burma," Briefing to EU Political Counselors at Embassy of Slovenia (EU President), May 22, 2008.
• “North Korean Human Rights: Moving the Agenda,” Parallel Event at UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland (March 23, 2007)
• “Failure to Protect: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in North Korea," Presentation to the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula with Kjell Magne Bondevik, Brussels, Belgium (March 20, 2007)
• "Strengthening the EU Common Position on Burma," Parliament of Estonia (Riigikogu), Foreign Affairs Committee (February 8, 2007)
• "Strengthening the EU Common Position on Burma," Parliament of Latvia (Saeima), Foreign Affairs Committee (February 6, 2007)
• Failure to Protect: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in North Korea," Presentation at United Nations with Václav Havel, Kjell Magne Bondevik, and Elie Wiesel (November 16, 2006)
• (Same), All-Party British-North Korea Parliamentary Group (UK House of Lords) (October 30, 2006)
• "China's Role in the World: The China-Burma Relationship," Testimony before U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (August 3, 2006)
• "Achieving Peace, Democracy, and National Reconciliation in Burma, " All-Party Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Burma (UK Parliament) (January 17, 2006)