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David Scheffer
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<h2 id="education-and-career">Education and career</h2> <p>Scheffer received <a href="/facts/Bachelor_of_Arts/2pa1nwfR">B.A.s</a> from <a href="/facts/Harvard/Lhy9L1cx">Harvard</a> and <a href="/facts/Oxford_University/ExVVQL6V">Oxford University</a>, and an <a href="/facts/LL.M./a7Igvr42">LL.M.</a> from <a href="/facts/Georgetown_University_Law_Center/g3tfh82D">Georgetown University Law Center</a>. He began his legal career at the international law firm <a href="/facts/Coudert_Brothers/es0oPDr3">Coudert Brothers</a>, working for a time in their <a href="/facts/Singapore/CQDkhUvD">Singapore</a> office. He also served as counsel to the <a href="/facts/U.S._House_Committee_on_Foreign_Affairs/VtDSxaUS">U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs</a>. During Clinton's first term, he was initially the senior advisor to <a href="/facts/Madeleine_Albright/ENqgsAEQ">Madeleine Albright</a>, who then served as <a href="/facts/United_States_Ambassadors_to_the_United_Nations/Sg5b7DRY">ambassador to the United Nations</a>. Scheffer then sat on the <a href="/facts/National_Security_Council_Deputies_Committee/Xc6aIfJE">Deputies Committee</a> of the <a href="/facts/United_States_National_Security_Council/HYwSNFA6">National Security Council</a> from 1993 until 1996, and then became the first Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. </p><p>As ambassador, Scheffer participated in the creation of the <a href="/facts/International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_the_former_Yugoslavia/n0cQyk8p">International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia</a> and <a href="/facts/International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_Rwanda/1LaIJT3D">Rwanda</a>, the Special Court for <a href="/facts/Sierra_Leone/gWP9YL0v">Sierra Leone</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Khmer_Rouge_tribunal/mlD60hrN">Khmer Rouge tribunal</a>. He also led the U.S. negotiating team in <a href="/facts/United_Nations/fgXLnmgT">United Nations</a> talks on the <a href="/facts/International_Criminal_Court/z0VwbKkz">International Criminal Court</a>. Though Scheffer signed the <a href="/facts/Rome_Statute/7DIxjny1">Rome Statute</a> that established the ICC on behalf of the U.S. in 2000, he was a highly vocal critic of many aspects of the court and the negotiation process. He particularly opposed the prohibition on any party making <a href="/facts/Treaty/KCfhDfDV">reservations</a> to the Rome Statute and the manner in which the Statute structured the court's <a href="/facts/Jurisdiction/0Kb8hao4">jurisdiction</a>. Clinton's successor, <a href="/facts/George_W._Bush/mYSgM515">George W. Bush</a>, later withdrew the signature of the U.S. </p><p>Scheffer has also taught classes on <a href="/facts/International_law/WJEPeq44">international law</a> and <a href="/facts/War_crimes/36qQAugC">war crimes</a> as a law professor at <a href="/facts/Northwestern_University/4dunJHBf">Northwestern</a>, <a href="/facts/Georgetown_University/GRubgGhB">Georgetown</a>, <a href="/facts/Columbia_Law_School/KK8HtkHA">Columbia</a>, <a href="/facts/Duke_University/BFMHVjsB">Duke</a>, and <a href="/facts/George_Washington_University/RBAg9f0r">George Washington University</a>. He is an endorser of the <a href="/facts/Genocide_Intervention_Network/ALxbgYb6">Genocide Intervention Network</a>. </p><p>In his capacity as director of the Center for International Human Rights and afterwards, Scheffer runs the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor website,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> the primary source for accessing news, information, and video of trial proceedings from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. </p> <p>In December 2011, Scheffer published a memoir and history, <i>All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals</i> about the rise of international tribunals in the 1990s.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> On January 18, 2012, Scheffer was appointed by Secretary General <a href="/facts/Ban_Ki-moon/8pbxnYhE">Ban Ki-moon</a> as the U.N. Special Expert to advise on the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>He was awarded a 2013 <a href="/facts/Berlin_Prize/qbxBBRwg">Berlin Prize</a> Fellowship at the <a href="/facts/American_Academy_in_Berlin/eVTVXYQb">American Academy in Berlin</a>. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.cambodiatribunal.org/">Cambodia Tribunal Monitor</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?16456">Appearances</a> on <a href="/facts/C-SPAN/MdgMU5eM">C-SPAN</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/DavidScheffer/">Faculty profile at Northwestern University Law School</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130604204913/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/02/the_least_wanted_most_wanted_man?page=full">Foreign Policy article on the 2011 arrest of Ratko Mladic, "The Least Wanted Most Wanted Man"</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140730233025/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/29/justice_league?page=full">Foreign Policy article on enforcing the ICC's 2011 al-Qaddafi arrest warrant, "Justice League"</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.today/20130906142120/http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/david-scheffer">David Scheffer at the American Academy Berlin as Bosch Public Policy Fellow</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Permanent Faculty Chairs". Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. <a href="https://www.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/faculty/chairs/permanent/" target="_blank">https://www.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/faculty/chairs/permanent/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Faculty Profiles: David J. Scheffer". Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Archived from the original on September 10, 2006. <a href="https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/DavidScheffer/" target="_blank">https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/DavidScheffer/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Faculty Profiles: David J. Scheffer". Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Archived from the original on September 10, 2006. <a href="https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/DavidScheffer/" target="_blank">https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/DavidScheffer/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Dworkin, Anthony (January 27, 2011). "Review of "All the Missing Souls"". Washington Post. Retrieved January 30, 2012. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/all-the-missing-souls-a-personal-history-of-the-war-crimes-tribunals-by-david-scheffer/2011/12/28/gIQADzsEWQ_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/all-the-missing-souls-a-personal-history-of-the-war-crimes-tribunals-by-david-scheffer/2011/12/28/gIQADzsEWQ_story.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Sands, Phillippe (January 13, 2012). "Justice for Others". Financial Times. Retrieved January 30, 2012. <a href="https://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/1d2e1b58-3af1-11e1-be4b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1kxoK5hMn" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/1d2e1b58-3af1-11e1-be4b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1kxoK5hMn</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Cambodia: Ban designates new adviser for Khmer Rouge trials". UN News Centre. January 18, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2012. <a href="https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40969&Cr=cambodia&Cr1=" target="_blank">https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40969&Cr=cambodia&Cr1=</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>