Michael A. Newton is a West Point graduate who serves as
Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt University Law
School. During his distinguished military career, Lieutenant
Colonel (Ret.) Newton served in both the Clinton and Bush
administrations as Advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for War
Crimes Issues at the U.S. Department of State, where he played a
key role in negotiating the Statutes of the Special Court for
Sierra Leone and the Elements of Crimes for the International
Criminal Court. Newton advised Iraqi jurists as they drafted the
Statute for the Iraqi High Tribunal, provided training to the
Tribunal's judges, and shuttled back and forth to Baghdad to
provide assistance to the judges during the trial of Saddam
Hussein.
Michael P. Scharf is Professor of Law and Director of the Frederick
K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University
School of Law. As Attorney-Adviser for United Nations Affairs at
the U.S. Department of State during the elder Bush and Clinton
administrations, Scharf was instrumental in the establishment of
the Yugoslavia Tribunal. In February 2005, Scharf and the Public
International Law and Policy Group, an NGO he cofounded, were
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by six governments and the
Prosecutor of an International Criminal Tribunal for the work they
have done to help in the prosecution of major war criminals,
including Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor, and Saddam
Hussein.
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