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"Distinguished Visiting Jurist" Larry Johnson was Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs at the U.N. from 2006–2008. Formerly, he was Legal Adviser of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1997–2001) and Chef de Cabinet, Office of the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (2003–2005). He joined the U.N. Secretariat in 1971 as an Asst. Legal Officer in the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs and served at Headquarters as Principal Legal Officer in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the Office of Legal Affairs (1989–1997). Prior to his last position at the U.N., Mr. Johnson was Professor of Global Affairs at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and Visiting Prof. of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Mr. Johnson graduated from the University of Nebraska (B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D.) and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (Master in Public Admin.).

“Distinguished Visiting Jurist” William A. Schabas is director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he also holds the professorship in human rights law. Prof. Schabas has litigated human rights cases before domestic and international tribunals and served as a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Prof. Schabas holds post-graduate degrees in history and in law from universities in Canada, and was selected to receive an honorary degree from Case Western Reserve University at commencement in May 2009. Author of 18 books and more than 200 articles dealing with international human rights law and international criminal law, he is an Officer of the Order of Canada (Canada’s version of knighthood).

Kathleen Clark teaches ethics and national security law at Washington University in St. Louis, and has led government and legal ethics workshops in Europe, Africa, and South America. She previously served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. A graduate of Yale Law School, Prof. Clark is currently a member of the American Law Institute; and is past Chair of the National Security Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Charles McManis is the Thomas & Karole Green Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law. He is active in the intellectual property area both nationally and internationally. McManis has taught or researched in the United States, China, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan and has served as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization. Professor McManis has made Fulbright visits to Korea to lecture and do research at the International Intellectual Property Training Institute, Taejon, Korea. Professor McManis was the co-chair for the Conference on Patenting Genetic Products (2002), organizer for the Conference on Intellectual Property, Digital Technology & Electronic Commerce (2001) and the Conference on RE-engineering Patent Law (2000). Along with Professor William Jones, he organized the East Asian Intellectual Property Conference in 1994. He is the co-author of “Licensing of the Intellectual Property in the Digital Age” and the author of “Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition in a Nutshell” (4th ed.) published by West Publishing Company.

Cassandra Burke Robertson joined the Case Western Reserve University School of Law faculty in 2007 after practicing in the Office of the Attorney General of Texas and working at the Texas Supreme Court. In addition to her law degree, Prof. Robertson holds master’s degrees in Public Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her teaching and scholarship interests include procedure (including comparative and international procedure), professional responsibility, and remedies.

Michael Scharf, Co-Director of the Summer Institute for Global Justice, is Professor of Law and Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. During the first Bush and Clinton Administrations, Prof. Scharf was Attorney-Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence and Attorney Adviser for U.N. Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Prof. Scharf has won two national book of the year awards, recently received the Case School of Law’s “Distinguished Teacher Award,” and was nominated in 2005 for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with five war crimes tribunals.

Elies van Sliedregt is Professor of International Criminal Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She was previously Associate Professor of Criminal Law at Leiden University, and Lecturer at Utrecht University. Recipient of the prestigious Modderman Prize for Criminal Law in 2006, and author of The Individual Criminal Responsibility for Violations of International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004), Prof. van Sliedregt has served on the defense team for major defendants before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Tom Zwart is Professor of Law at Utrecht University, and Director of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, a joint initiative of the faculties of law of several Dutch universities. He was formerly Dean of Graduate Studies, and LL.M. Director of the Utrecht University Law Faculty. A leading authority in the field of comparative law and the internationalization of public law, he has been a visiting scholar at a number of law schools around the world. Prof. Zwart served as Head of the European and Legal Affairs Department of the Dutch Home Office from 1993–1997. In this capacity, he acted as counsel to the Dutch Deputy Prime Minister, the Council of Ministers of the European Communities in Brussels, and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

: Stephen Rapp, Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and Richard
Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the Yugoslavia Tribunal address the summer
institute students in the state of the art university classroom facilities.