Leila Nadya Sadat (born 1960 in Newark, New Jersey) is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law and the Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. She is also the director and co-founder of the Summer Institute for International Law and Policy at Utrecht University. Sadat is the Director of The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a multi-year project to study the problem of crimes against humanity and draft a comprehensive convention addressing their punishment and prevention. She has spearheaded the international effort to establish this new global convention. Sadat was recently elected to membership in the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations. On December 12, 2012, Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court appointed Sadat as her Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity.