Reply #10: Saddam on Trial: Understanding and Debating the Iraqi High Tribunal

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On Saturday, December 23 at 2:00 pm
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Saddam on Trial: Understanding and Debating the Iraqi High Tribunal
Michael Scharf and Gregory McNeal
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Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death in early November for crimes against humanity. In "Saddam on Trial" co-authors Michael Scharf and Gregory McNeal discuss the trial's legitimacy and describe the roles they played in preparing the Iraqi High Tribunal for the first of several planned court cases. This event was hosted at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lyndhurst, Ohio.

Michael Scharf is a law professor and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Scharf served as a member of the international team of experts that provided training to the judges and prosecutors of the Iraqi High Tribunal. In 2005 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to help in the prosecution of war criminals. Gregory McNeal is senior fellow in Terrorism and Homeland Security and assistant director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Mr. McNeal has served as executive editor on the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and his editorials have appeared in the Washington Times, National Review Online and the New York Times. During the Saddam Hussein trial, Gregory McNeal served as part of the international academic consortium that provided legal memoranda to the Iraqi High Tribunal.