Sheila Paylan is a public international law and human rights expert with more than 15 years of experience working for the United Nations as an advisor on complex matters of international criminal, humanitarian and human rights law, as well as administrative law and conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence. She regularly consults for a variety of international organizations, NGOs, think tanks and governments, and has published on the subjects of atrocity crimes, remedial secession, and the responsibility to protect. When she is not on mission, she divides her time between Yerevan (Armenia) and The Hague (Netherlands).