Dr. Phil Clark is a Research Fellow in Courts and Public Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, and co-convenor of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group. He has a DPhil in Politics from Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Following his doctoral work, he was the researcher and author of a project for the Open Society Justice Initiative, exploring issues of the complementarity of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and national and community-level institutions in the DRC and Uganda. He has advised the UK parliament, the Sudanese government, the ICC, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Human Rights Watch and Crisis Group on conflict issues in Africa.