Prof. David Scheffer is the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law. He teaches international criminal and human rights law and corporate compliance, and is the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Expert on U.N. Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. He was awarded the Berlin Prize to the American Academy in Berlin in 2013. He was selected as one of Foreign Policy's "Top Global Thinkers of 2011." Prof. Scheffer was U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and the International Criminal Court. He also led the US delegation to the Rome Conference. During 1993-1996 he was senior adviser and counsel to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Madeleine Albright, and served on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council. He is author of "All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals", which received the 2012 Book of the Year Award by the American National Section of L'Association Internationale de Droit Penal.
Trying individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression