David Scheffer is visiting professor of international law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches public international law, international institutions law, and atrocity law. He is the former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and led U.S. support for international and hybrid criminal tribunals. Amb. Scheffer headed the U.S. delegation to U.N. talks on the International Criminal Court until 2001. He also led the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group. During the first Clinton Administration, he was senior adviser and counsel to the U.N. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Madeleine Albright, and served on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council. Amb. Scheffer practiced with the international law firm of Coudert Brothers (1979-1986), served as senior consultant to the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs (1986-88), and was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1989-1992). In recent years he was a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Institute of Peace and Senior Vice President of the U.N. Association of the U.S.A. Amb. Scheffer has written extensively on international law and politics. He is a graduate of Harvard, Oxford (Knox Fellow), and Georgetown Universities.