David Scheffer is a genuine legend of international criminal justice and the defense of a just rule of law. A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, during the Clinton Administration he was the first-ever US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues and led the US delegation to the UN talks that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). He also has negotiated the creation of four other war crimes tribunals; chaired the Atrocities-Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group; was senior advisor and counselor to the late US Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright; and served on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council. His recent publications include the award-winning "All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals”; “The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace”; and (with Mark Ellis) “The UN Charter: Five Pillars for Humankind.”

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