to courtroom advocacy White was a prolific legal writer in the course of the ICTR prosecutions, making significant written contributions to numerous indictments, two pre-trial briefs, three final briefs and several hundred interlocutory proceedings on points of law and evidence. The ‘Military 1’ final brief alone exceeded 950 pages in length, and began with White's authorship of an overview section entitled ‘The Philosophy of Genocide’ that placed the trial evidence of the events into a broader context. Most of these contributions were during a period when there was little practical legal precedent in international criminal law and many of the issues were being dealt with for the first time. International Criminal Law Contemporaries During the various prosecutions White worked with prosecution teams and alongside numerous other colleagues, some prominent in international criminal law, including Chile Eboe-Osuji, currently a judge and President of the ICC-CPI, Fatou Bensouda, currently the chief prosecutor of the ICC-CPI, James Kirkpatrick Stewart, currently the deputy prosecutor of the ICC-CPI, Stephen Rapp, currently the global justice special ambassador for the USA State Dept., Dr. Alex Obote-Odora, currently a Stockholm University professor and author and Dr. Alison Des Forges (deceased 2009) the Rwanda historian and Human Rights Watch advisor who once observed that White was "...probably the only living person to have challenged Colonel Bagosora to his face." International Human Rights Investigations White’s human rights work supporting accountability through international investigations includes Rwanda, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the Reporting Officer and Legal Advisor to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Investigation on Libya in 2015 (OIOL) producing a report for the Human Rights Council. In 2016 for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) he prepared an analysis report of evidence documenting extensive crimes and abuses in Syria and Iraq. During 2017-2019 he led human rights field teams to document civilian casualties, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA). Canadian legal background White's first trial was a prosecution in February 1988 at the youth court in Halifax, Nova Scotia while he was a student in the Criminal Law Clinic of Dalhousie Law School. Later that year he articled and then set up legal practice in Vancouver, British Columbia where he both defended individual clients and did ad hoc prosecutions on contract with the Provincial attorney-general's ministry, until 2000 when he