WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW WHITNEY R. HARRIS WORLD LAW INSTITUTE
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY INITIATIVE
FORGING A CONVENTION ON CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY MARCH 11 – 12, 2010
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Steering Committee Members
Chair: Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, Washington University School of Law; Director, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute
Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University College of Law; President Emeritus of the International Human Rights Law Institute.
Ambassador Hans Corell, former U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
Justice Richard J. Goldstone, Georgetown University Law Center; former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda
Mr. Juan E. Méndez, Visiting Professor, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C.
Professor William A. Schabas, Director, The Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway
Judge Christine Van den Wyngaert, International Criminal Court
Expert Participants
Ms. Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Assistant Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Mr. Mike Abramowitz, Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mr. Anees Ahmed, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
Professor Payam Akhavan, McGill University
Ms. Elizabeth Andersen, Executive Director, American Society of International Law
Ms. Evelyn Ankumah, Executive Director, Africa Legal Aid
Mr. James Apple, President, International Judicial Academy
Ms. Cecile Aptel, International Justice Expert
Judge Micki I. Aronson, Administrative Appeals Judge, U.S. Social Security Administration
Professor John Barrett, St. John’s University School of Law
Mr. John Berger, Cambridge University Press
Mr. Gilbert Bitti, International Criminal Court
Dr. Michael Bohlander, Durham University Law School
Ms. Andrea Bosshard, First Secretary, Legal and Political Section, Embassy of Switzerland
Mr. Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Mr. Scott Carlson, U.S. Department of State
Mr. David Crane, Syracuse University; former Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone
Professor Robert Cryer, Birmingham Law School
Ms. Mélanie Deshaies, University of Montreal
Mr. Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
Professor Yoram Dinstein, Tel Aviv University
Mr. Nick Donovan, The Aegis Trust
Professor Max du Plessis, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Institute for Security Studies
Mr. Mohamed El Zeidy, International Criminal Court
Dr. Elizabeth Ferris, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Mr. Jerry Fowler, President, The Save Darfur Coalition
Ms. Julia Fromholz, Human Rights First
Ms. Jacqueline Geis, The Brookings Institution
Ms. Heloisa Griggs, Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
Mr. Morton Halperin, Senior Advisor, Open Society Institute
Mr. Larry Johnson, Columbia University; former U.N. Assistant-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
Professor Michael Kelly, Creighton University School of Law
Mr. Michael Kleinman, Humanity United
Mr. Neil Kritz, United States Institute of Peace
Mr. Magnus Lennartsson, The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Dr. Edward Luck, International Peace Institute; Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General
Mr. Henk Marquart Sholtz, Secretary-General, International Association of Prosecutors
Dr. Guénaël Mettraux, Defence Counsel, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Professor Sean Murphy, George Washington University Law School
Ms. Catherine Newcombe, U.S. Department of Justice
Mr. Steven Cash Nickerson, Executive Vice President, CFO and General Counsel, PDS Technical Services
Judge Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko, International Criminal Court
Professor Hèctor Alonso-Olàsolo, Utrecht University
Ms. Laura Olson, Senior Counsel, The Constitution Project
Mr. Gregory Peterson, The Robert H. Jackson Center
Mr. Theodore Piccone, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Ambassador Constancio Pinto, Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the United States
Judge Árpád Prandler, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
Mr. Markus Reiterer, Attaché for Public Diplomacy and Political Matters, Embassy of Austria
Mr. Steve Riskin, United States Institute of Peace
Professor Darryl Robinson, Queen’s University
Mr. Eli Rosenbaum, U.S. Department of Justice
Professor Michael Scharf, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Professor David Scheffer, Northwestern University; former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
Professor Dinah Shelton, George Washington University Law School
Mr. Andrew Solomon, Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Professor Jane Stromseth, Georgetown University Law Center
Mr. Frederick Swinnen, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Dean Kent Syverud, Washington University School of Law
Mr. Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution
Mr. Colin Thomas-Jensen, The ENOUGH! Project
Mr. Igor Timofeyev, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Judge Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Mr. Rob van Bokhoven, Netherlands Ministry of Justice
Professor Elies van Sliedregt, VU Amsterdam University
Ms. Francesca Varda, Coalition for the International Criminal Court
Ms. Patricia Viseur Sellers, former Legal Advisor for Gender-Related Crimes, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Mr. John Washburn, Convener, American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court
Judge Inéz Mónica Weinberg de Roca, President, U.N. Appeals Tribunal
Ambassador Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the U.N.; President, Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Ms. Mary Werntz, Head of Regional Delegation to the U.S. and Canada, International Committee of the Red Cross
Mr. Clint Williamson, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
Mr. Lawrence Woocher, United States Institute of Peace
Chancellor Mark Wrighton, Washington University in St. Louis
HRH Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States
Ambassador Urs Ziswiler, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
Mr. Joseph R. Zogby, Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Richard Durbin
Harris Institute Personnel
Mr. B. Don Taylor III, Executive Director of the Harris Institute, Cash Nickerson Fellow
Ms. Erika Detjen, Cash Nickerson Fellow
Mr. Jason Meyer, Cash Nickerson Fellow
Ms. Margaret Wichmann, Cash Nickerson Fellow
Brookings Institution Personnel
Ms. Erin Bourgois, The Brookings Institution
Ms. Natalie Lempert, The Brookings Institution
Ms. Chareen Stark, The Brookings Institution
Ms. Erin Williams, The Brookings Institution