Nobel Peace Prize nominee speaking in area Saturday

8/4/2006 - Area residents are invited to attend two events featuring Nobel Peace Prize nominee and international law expert Michael Scharf Saturday, presented by the Robert H. Jackson Center.

The first event will be held free of charge at 11 a.m. in the Carl Cappa Auditorium of the Jackson Center, 305 East Fourth St., Jamestown. The program will feature Jackson Center Chairman Greg Peterson interviewing Scharf in a relaxed, living room-type setting. The event is co-sponsored by the Artone Manufacturing Company Inc., Jamestown Awning Inc., Caprino Management Services, Loyalton of Lakewood, Merrill Lynch-Cynthia Peterson and Safety Compliance Inc. He will later appear at 3 p.m. at the Hall of Philosophy at Chautauqua Institution, co-sponsored by the Jackson Center and the Chautauqua Women’s Club.

Scharf is a professor at Case School of Law, Cleveland, and heads the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center. He is one of the nation’s leading experts in international criminal law. He and the Public International Law and Policy Group — a non-governmental organization Scharf co-founded — were nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize by six governments and the Chief Prosecutor of an International Criminal Tribunal for the work they have done to help in the prosecution of major war criminals, such as Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein. During the first Bush and Clinton administrations, Scharf served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he held positions of counsel to the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, attorney-adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, attorney-adviser for United Nations Affairs and delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Human Rights Commission. Scharf is the author of more than 50 scholarly articles and eight books, including “Balkan Justice,” nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. “The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda” was awarded the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding Book in International Law in 1999. Several other books also won awards.

Scharf has testified as an expert before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and in July testified before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on Standards of Military Commissions and Tribunals. His opinion editorials have been published by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and International Herald Tribune. He has appeared as an expert commentator on ABC News, “Nightline” with Ted Koppel, “The O’Reilly Factor,” “The Charlie Rose Show” and “Newshour with Jim Lehrer,” as well as CNN, the BBC, Court TV and National Public Radio.

Greg Peterson is known as a local historical interviewer who now has spoken with all living Jackson-related Supreme Court law clerks (including the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist), Jackson’s fellow Nuremberg prosecutors and anyone living who may have known or worked with Jackson. These interviews comprise a large video archive which will one day be made available to the public in the Jackson Center archives and on www.roberthjackson.org.
Peterson’s interview with Scharf will be added to the center’s archives.

The second appearance of Scharf at Chautauqua Institution requires a Chautauqua gate ticket. Scharf will speak and Peterson will serve as moderator.

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