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Julia Devin is an attorney specializing in international human rights and humanitarian law. She was the CIET international program coordinator (1994‚1995) and executive director and founding board member of the International Commission on Medical Neutrality (1990‚1994). She has worked with physicians in the former Yugoslavia, coordinated the first international investigations of the health and humanitarian impacts of war and sanctions in Iraq, and drafted a code of medical neutrality in El Salvador. While a grant recipient with Physicians for Human Rights, she reported on human rights abuses in China, Israel, Somalia, and Guatemala. She has worked as a consultant for the U.S. Congress and the United Nations and has published numerous monographs and articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Political Gain and Civilian Pain: The Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions, edited by Thomas G. Weiss, David Cortright, George Lopez, and Larry Minear, with a Foreword by Lakhdar Brahimi. 1997. [review by David Westwood] [review by Hans-Peter Gasser]