Beth S. Lyons is a defense counsel in the Ongwen case at the International Criminal Court (ICC). She has also defended clients at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), where she and Lead Counsel Chief Charles A. Taku won an acquittal on appeal for Major F.X. Nzuwonemeye, in Prosecutor v. Ndindiliyimana (“Military II” case). Previously, she worked as a Legal Aid criminal defense and appeals attorney in New York City. Since 1997, she has served as an Alternate Representative to the UN in NY for the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) at IADL. She has published articles on international criminal law, including fair trial and joint criminal enterprise and on the South African and East Timor Truth Commissions.