T. Markus Funk

T. Markus Funk is an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, Illinois, working in the Organized Crime and Public Corruption Section.  In 2008, Mr. Funk received the U.S. Department of Justice's Attorney General's Award (the "John Marshall Award") for his work on the landmark "Family Secrets" (United States v. Frank Calabrese, et al.) mob/murder investigation and trial.

Prior to in 2000 becoming an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Funk was a Lecturer in Law at Oxford University (St. Catherine's College), as well as a law clerk to the Hon. Morris S. Arnold, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, and the Hon. Catherine D. Perry, U.S. District Court, St. Louis, Missouri.  In addition to lecturing at Oxford, Mr. Funk taught at Northwestern University School of Law, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, University of Pristina (Kosovo), and Loyola University-Chicago. 

From 2004-06, Mr. Funk served as the U.S. Department of Justice Resident Legal Advisor for Kosovo, in 2006 receiving the U.S. Department of State's Superior Honor Award.  During this time Mr. Funk was involved in extensive work relating to war crimes investigations and prosecutions in Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia, and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("ICTY").  Mr. Funk is the author of various academic and popular articles and book chapter, as well as Stemming the Suffering:  Victims' Rights and the International Criminal Court (Oxford University Press, Spring 2010) and the Kosovo Trial Skills Handbook (U.S. Department of Justice, 2006).

Mr. Funk Co-Chairs the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Human Trafficking, and is a Member of the ABA's Darfur Task Force.