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Daryl Mundis

American lawyer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ5226213 ↗
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Daryl A. Mundis served as a Senior Trial Attorney at The Hague as a lead prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Education

Mundis received his undergraduate degree from Manhattanville College in 1988. While at Manhattanville, Mundis was awarded a Truman Scholarship in his junior year. Following graduation, Mundis attended Columbia University, where he received a Juris Doctor degree in 1992. Mundis earned his LLM in 1998 and his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008. His doctoral thesis, written under the supervision of Christopher Greenwood was entitled The law of naval exclusion zones.

Career

After law school, Mundis was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy, where he served as a Judge Advocate General for five years before working in The Hague. From 1998 to 2009 he worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. From 2009 to 2021, he worked for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, retiring from the United Nations as an Assistant Secretary-General.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5226213. VIAF identifies the subject as 284042067. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 1992, 1998 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Daryl Mundis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.