ºìÌÒÊÓƵ

Kyle Wood is an attorney at the Seattle law firm Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender, where he specializes in representing clients who have been harmed by corporations and government institutions. His practice also focuses on international humanitarian law and international criminal law. He has helped train lawyers and civilians around the world, including in Ukraine and Sudan, on documenting mass-atrocity crimes and human rights abuses. He drafted a brief, now used by prosecutors around the world prosecuting cases on the basis of universal jurisdiction, on the elements of crimes against humanity in the context of ISIL’s control over parts of Syria. Kyle also helped draft a brief for submission in a pending case before the International Court of Justice on the Syrian’s government’s responsibility for violations of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

In 2018, Kyle was part of an international team that documented mass atrocities committed in Burma against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority group. He and the rest of the team, put together by the global pro bono law firm Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), systematically interviewed more than 1,000 Rohingya refugees among the hundreds of thousands living in refugee camps in Bangladesh, recording and analyzing their experiences to determine whether they met the elements of genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes. This investigation informed the U.S. State Department’s 2022 determination that Burma's military had committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya. PILPG’s report was cited more than 20 times by an International Criminal Court decision authorizing an investigation into the situation.

As an international criminal prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague between 2005 and 2015, Kyle prosecuted at trial, appeal, and review more than a dozen groundbreaking complex international criminal cases involving charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions.

Kyle has taught Law B595 International Humanitarian Law since 2024.