Ambassador David Scheffer - Insight Into War Crimes and Genocide
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Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project talks with David Scheffer, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Amb. Scheffer was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for Crimes Issues, serving during the second term of the Clinton Administration. Bio: Amb. David J. Scheffer is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, with a focus on international law and international criminal justice. Scheffer was the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law (2006-2020) and is Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He is Professor of Practice at Arizona State University (Washington offices). He was Vice-President of the American Society of International Law (2020-2022) and held the International Francqui Professorship at KU Leuven in Belgium in 2022. From 2012 to 2018 he was the UN Secretary-General’s Special Expert on UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, and he was the Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow working with the Ferencz International Justice Initiative at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (2019-2021). Amb. Scheffer book All the Missing SoulsCouncil on Foreign RelationsArizona State University School of Politics and Global Studies
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