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| Authors: | Ruth Wedgwood Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University John R. Bolton Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch |
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| Related Bio: | Alton Frye, Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus |
July 1999
94
ISBN 087609261X
$10.00
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Memorandum to the President - Anne-Marie Slaughter
Speech One: Endorse the International Criminal Court - Kenneth Roth
Speech Two: Reject and Oppose the International Criminal Court - John Bolton
Speech Three: Improve the International Criminal Court - Ruth Wedgwood
Background Materials
Appendix A: U.S. Objections to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Appendix B: Excerpts from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
About the Authors
John Bolton is the Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute. During the Bush Administration, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, where he was responsible for U.S. policy throughout the U.N. system. In the Reagan Administration, he was the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division, the Department of Justice's largest litigating division, where he personally argued several major constitutional law cases.
Alton Frye is the Presidential Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he has also served as President and as National Director. Previously a member of the RAND Corporation and a U.S. Senate staff director, he has taught at UCLA and Harvard. A frequent consultant to Congress and the executive branch, his books include A Responsible Congress: The Politics of National Security.
Kenneth Roth is Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S.-based human rights organization, which he has led for six years. He served previously as a federal prosecutor in New York and in the Iran-Contra investigation. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Mr. Roth has conducted numerous human rights missions around the world. He has testified frequently before Congress and international bodies and has written extensively on human rights abuses, international justice, and war crimes.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and Director of Graduate and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. She writes and teaches on a range of subjects in international law and international relations, including the effectiveness of international tribunals and the relationship between national government institutions and international organizations. She recently published "The Real New World Order" in the 75th anniversary issue of Foreign Affairs.
Ruth Wedgwood is Senior Fellow for International Organizations and Law at the Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of Law at Yale University. In 1998-99, she served as the Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College. She was a law clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a Federal Prosecutor in the Southern District of New York City.
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