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  Scharf, Michael
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NameMichael Scharf
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Born April 25, 1963 (60 years)
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InfoMr. Scharf is one of the nation's leading experts in the field of international criminal law. During the first Bush and Clinton Administrations, he served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he held the positions of Counsel to the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Attorney-Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Attorney-Adviser for United Nations Affairs, and delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He is the author of over forty scholarly articles and eight books, including Balkan Justice, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which was awarded the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding book in International Law in 1999, Peace with Justice, which won the International Association of Penal Law's Book of the Year Award for 2003, and casebooks on The Law of International Organizations and International Criminal Law. He has testified as an expert before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; his Op Eds have been published by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribunbe; and he has appeared as an expert commentator on ABC News' "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" and "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," as well as CNN, the BBC, Court TV, and National Public Radio. He also serves as Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group -- a nonprofit corporation and U.N.-designated N.G.O. that provides pro-bono international legal services to foreign governments and international organizations. He teaches in the areas of public international law, international criminal law, the law of international organizations, and international humanitarian law.


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