December 2025
Event Details
DATE:
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
TIME:
12:45 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
Lunch will be provided to those who register.
LOCATION:
W420
Ambassador David J. Scheffer was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues and led the U.S. delegation to the UN talks establishing the International Criminal Court. He negotiated the creation of five war crimes tribunals and chaired the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group. Ambassador Scheffer also served on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council and as Senior Adviser and Counsel to Dr. Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. His latest book is The UN Charter: Five Pillars for Humankind(Springer 2025, co-author Mark S. Ellis).
Event Chair: Ruti G. Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School; Co-Director, Center for International Law and the Institute for Global Law, Justice, and Policy; and author of Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice: An American Legacy of Responsibility and Reconciliation (Oxford University Press, 2025).
This event is for the NYLS community only. Outside visitors will not be admitted.