CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — It’s not often that law faculty get to shape the decision of the U.S. government on an important foreign policy matter. But CWRU School of Law faculty members and a prominent alumna got to do just that on March 21, 2022, when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced at a press briefing, held in the U.S. Holocaust Museum. that the United States has determined that Myanmar’s army has committed genocide against the Rohingya people. The determination drew on a 2018 study of the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), “Documenting Atrocity Crimes Committed Against the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine State,” which was prepared for the State Department by a team led by alumna Margaux Day (LAW ’09), former vice president of PILPG; and CWRU Adjunct Professor Greg Noone. The team interviewed over 1,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.  Co-Dean Michael Scharf and CWRU War Crimes Research Office Director Jim Johnson helped draft the report, which made the legal determination that, based on the findings of the PILPG investigative mission, “there are reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes were committed against the Rohingya” in Myanmar.