JACKSON CENTER
PRESENTS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERT MICHAEL SCHARF
AT JAMESTOWN AND CHAUTAUQUA EVENTS
August 1, 2006 Immediate Release
Area residents are invited to attend two unique events featuring Nobel Peace Prize nominee and international law expert Michael Scharf on Saturday, August 5, presented by the Robert H. Jackson Center.
The first event will be held free of charge at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 5, in the Carl Cappa Auditorium of the Jackson Center, 305 East Fourth Street, Jamestown. The program will be “one-of-a-kind,” with Jackson Center Chairman Greg Peterson interviewing Mr. Scharf in a relaxed, living room-type setting.
The events are 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.
Mr. 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 the field of international criminal law. He and the Public International Law and Policy Group – a non-governmental organization Mr. 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, Mr. 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 to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
Mr. Scharf is the author of more than 50 scholarly articles and eight books including “Balkan Justice,” which was 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 of his books won awards.
Mr. 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 Op Eds 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 archives which will one day be made available to the public in the Jackson Center archives and on www.roberthjackson.org. Mr. Peterson’s interview with Professor Scharf will be added to the Center’s archives.
A local attorney with the law firm of Phillips Lytle, LLC, Peterson began his hobby of interviewing many years ago, interviewing local and nationally-known sports figures, historical figures and other notable people in various fields of interest. The hobby led to the founding of the Robert H. Jackson Center, after Mr. Peterson interviewed local industrialist, the late Carl Cappa, and local attorney Stanley Weeks who planted seeds with Mr. Peterson to consider starting such a Center in the Scottish Rite Temple.
The second appearance of Mr. Scharf will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, August 5, at the Chautauqua Women’s Club program in the Hall of Philosophy, Chautauqua Institution. A Chautauqua gate ticket is required. Professor Scharf will speak and Mr. Peterson will serve as moderator.
The Robert H. Jackson Center advances the legacy of Justice Jackson’s work in constitutional and international law through programs, education and exhibitry. The Center is located at 305 East Fourth Street, Jamestown, and at www.roberthjackson.org. Tour hours include 10 a.m. – 4p.m. Monday-Friday and Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. The Center’s telephone number is (716)483-6646.
For more information: (716)483-6646
Rolland E. Kidder, Executive Director
Becky Irwin Robbins, Director of Development
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Jackson Center To Host
Two Events Featuring Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
The Robert H. Jackson Center will host two events featuring Nobel Peace
Prize nominee and international law expert Michael Scharf on Saturday.
The first event will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Carl Cappa
Auditorium of the Jackson Center, 305 E. Fourth St., Jamestown. The program
will be ‘‘one-of-a-kind,’’ with Greg Peterson, Jackson Center chairman,
interviewing Scharf in a relaxed, living room-type setting.
The events are co-sponsored by Artone Manufacturing Company Inc.,
Jamestown Awning Inc., Caprino Management Services, Loyalton of Lakewood,
Merrill Lynch-Cynthia Peterson and Safety Compliance Inc.
Scharf is a professor at Case School of Law in 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
International Criminal Tribunal chief prosecutor for the work they have done to
help prosecute major war criminals, including 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. State Department, 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 to the United Nations Human
Rights Commission.
Scharf is the author of more than 50 scholarly articles and eight books
including Balkan Justice, which was
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 of his books 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 pieces 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.
Scharf’s second appearance will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Chautauqua
Women’s Club program in the Hall of Philosophy, Chautauqua Institution. A
Chautauqua gate ticket is required. Scharf will speak and Peterson will serve
as moderator.
The Center is located at 305 E. Fourth St., Jamestown. For more
information, visit the center’s Web site at www.roberthjackson. org. Tour hours
are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays. The center’s telephone number is -483-6646.
The Post-Journal
Jamestown, New York
Friday, August 4, 2006
Vol. 180, No. 44
Section B, Page 6
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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.
The Observer
Dunkirk, New York
Friday, August 4, 2006
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JACKSON CENTER HOSTS
NOBEL PRIZE NOMINEE
By ANASTASIA CONKLIN
The visions of suffering from faraway lands that Michael Scharf sees don’t
come from history textbooks or the Internet.
Sometimes, the Nobel Prize nominee sees those visions in his sleep, a
byproduct of his work on international criminal tribunals that have prosecuted
the likes of Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein.
On Saturday, Scharf spoke to a room of about 12 people at the Robert H.
Jackson Center about his knowledge of the Nuremberg trials. He spoke later in
the day at Chautauqua Institution in a program sponsored by the Jackson Center.
The Jackson Center interview was conducted by Greg Peterson, Jackson
Center chairman, in a relaxed living room-type setting. Scharf is a professor
at the Case University School of Law in Cleveland, heading the Frederick K. Cox
International Law Center. He has an extensive knowledge of Justice Robert H.
Jackson and the Nuremberg trials and co-founded the Public International Law
and Policy Group — for which he was nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace
Prize by six governments and the chief prosecutor of an international criminal
tribunal for the work done to prosecute war criminals.
The main focus of Scharf’s visit to both the Jackson Center and the Hall
of Philosophy at Chautauqua Institution was to express how well international
law and criminal tribunals have learned lessons and from mistakes from the
Nuremberg Trials.
‘‘I
train judges around the world for criminal tribunals,’’ Scharf said. ‘‘I helped
create the Yugoslavia tribunal and create a new set of rules.’’
Scharf said when he is working on a tribunal, it becomes a part of his
life — the good and the bad parts. He reads what has happened to the men,
women and children of these areas and sometimes it wakes him up at night. But,
then there are days where he knows he is making an important difference by
bringing accountability for the worst crimes.
‘‘I
love international law,’’ Scharf said. ‘‘If you want peace, you have to work
for justice. Everyone must work together for it.’’
Recently, Scharf testified before the U.S. Congress about his knowledge
of criminal tribunals and on standards of military commissions.
‘‘That
was an interesting experience,’’ Scharf said.
According to Scharf, he works on international law because each tribunal
has an educational value. The Geneva Convention, for example, wrote the rules
of war, governs treatment of prisoners of war and drew the line between war and
being barbaric.
‘‘There
is a moral high ground,’’ Scharf said. ‘‘There is a line that we can’t cross.
There is a question I am wrestling with — when you are at war with
terror, where do you draw the line?’’
He said Jackson’s goal was to make future tribunals learn from
Nuremberg. There is a line said by Spencer Tracey from the Trials of
Nuremberg movie Scharf said sums up the
lesson from the tribunal.
Judge Dan Haywood, played by Spencer Tracey, said, ‘‘A country isn’t a
rock. And it isn’t an extension of one’s self. It’s what it stands for, when
standing for something is the most difficult’’
The Post-Journal
Jamestown, New York
Sunday, August 6, 2006
Vol. 180, No. 46
Section A, Pages 1 and 7
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Law professor to address
issues surrounding Saddam Hussein trial
by Lois Vidaver
Staff writer
Michael Scharf, professor at Case Western Reserve Law School, speaks at 3
p.m. Saturday in the Hall of Philosophy on “Lessons Learned from the Saddam
Hussein Trial.” The Chautauqua Women’s Club programs this presentation. The
trial has just concluded in Baghdad, Iraq, Scharf said, and the verdict is due
on Oct. 16.
“Since
the Robert Jackson Center (in Jamestown) has organized this, I will also talk a
bit about whether we have learned lessons from the Nuremberg (war crime) trial
which took place 60 years ago, as well as lessons from the more recent trial of
Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague,” he said.
Hussein’s trial has been characterized as the messiest one in history
with more people around the world watching it than O. J. Simpson’s. “Consequently,
it could spell the difference between civil wars and lasting peace in the
Middle East –– weighty issues here,” said Scharf.
Scharf will be interviewed by Robert Jackson Center Chairman G r e g
Peterson at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Carl Cappa Auditorium of the Jackson
Center, 305 East Fourth Street, Jamestown. The program will be held free of
charge and take place in a relaxed living room setting.
Scharf visited Chautauqua once before while attending a conference
sponsored by the Robert Jackson Center.
In February of 2005, Scharf and the Public International Law and Policy
Group, a nongovernmental organization he co-founded, were nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize by six governments and the Prosecutor of an International
Criminal Tribunal for the work they have done to help in the prosecution of
major war criminals, such as Hussein, Milosevic and Charles Taylor.
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 the
position 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 to the United Nations Human
Rights Commission. In 1993, he was awarded the State Department’s Meritorious
Honor Award “in recognition of superb performance and exemplary leadership” in
relation to his role in the establishment of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, including the drafting of its Statute and
Rules of Procedure.
A graduate of Duke University School of Law, Scharf is the author of
more than 50 scholarly articles and seven books, including Balkan Justice, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
The Chautauquan Daily
Chautauqua, New York
Weekend Edition, August 5
& 6, 2006
Volume CXXX, Issue 37
Page A3
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