Ambassador David Scheffer

David Scheffer is the former Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2006-2020). He was the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation to U.N. talks to establish the International Criminal Court. He was Vice President of the American Society of International Law and International Francqui Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) and is currently Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and recipient of the American Bar Association’s 2024 Eleanor Roosevelt Prize for Global Human Rights Advancement. His latest book is The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace (Oxford 2019). He is also on LinkedIn.