Statement Against US Sanctions on ICC Investigations (Updated)

Along with 187 other American lawyers and legal scholars, I have signed a statement condemning the Trump administration’s Executive Order permitting the US to sanction individuals involved with the ICC’s investigation into the situation in Afghanistan. It’s quite a list of signatories, including three former US war-crimes ambassadors and a number of former judges and prosecutors at various international criminal tribunals. Here is the text, which was principally drafted by Doug Cassel:

Signatures (in alphabetical order; affiliations are for identification only and do not represent endorsement by law firms or institutions):

William J. Aceves, The Dean Steven R. Smith Professor of Law, California Western School of Law

David Akerson, Former Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Raquel E. Aldana, Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

Karen Alter, Lady Board of Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professor of Political Science and Law, Northwestern University

Roxanna Altholz, Co-Director & Clinical Professor, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Jose E. Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law

Diane Marie Amann, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law

Thomas Antkowiak, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law

Ashley Binetti Armstrong, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, NYU

Sahar Aziz, Professor of Law & Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights, Rutgers University Law School

Richard B. Bilder, Foley & Lardner Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

Susan H. Bitensky, Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law

Robert C. Blitt, Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law

Eric Blumenson, Research Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School

J.D. Bowers, Ph.D. (History), Director and Professor, Honors College, University of Missouri School of Law

Emma Brandon, Doctoral Research Fellow, PluriCourts Centre at the University of Oslo (U.S. citizen and member, District of Columbia and Virginia Bars)

William Burke-White, Richard Perry Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Barbara Carlin, Adjunct Professor of International Criminal Law, Duquesne University

Linda Carter, Emerita Professor, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law,

Douglass Cassel, Emeritus Professor, Notre Dame Law School

Anna Cave, Executive Director, Center on National Security & the Law, Georgetown Law

John P. Cerone, Visiting Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts

Matthew Charity, Professor of Law, Western New England University School of Law

Roger S. Clark, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers Law School

Sarah H. Cleveland, Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, Columbia Law School

Jeffrey Colman, Partner, Jenner & Block LLP

David M. Crane, Founding Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone

Evan J. Criddle, Ernest W. Goodrich Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School

John Crook, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University Law School

Williamson B.C. Chang, Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, The University of Hawaii at Manoa

Harlan Grant Cohen, Gabriel M. Wilner/UGA Foundation Professor in International Law, and Faculty Co-Director, Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law

Nancy Combs, Ernest W. Goodrich Professor of Law, Director Human Security Law Center, William & Mary Law School

Omar M. Dajani, Professor of Law, and Co-Director, Global Center for Business & Development McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific

Lori F. Damrosch, Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia Law School

Perry Dane, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School

Tom Dannenbaum, Assistant Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University

Benjamin G Davis, Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law Frederick T. Davis, Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School

Mary McGowan Davis, Retired Justice, Supreme Court of the State of New York

Constance de la Vega, Marshall P. Madison Professor and Academic Director of International Programs and Dean’s Circle Scholar, University of San Francisco School of Law

Margaret M. deGuzman, James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

Sara Dillon, Professor of Law, Director of International Programs and Co-Director of the International Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School

William S. Dodge, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, University of California Davis School of Law

Jason Dominguez, Former Legal Officer, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and Adjunct Professor of Law, Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law

Mark A. Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University

Gabriel Eckstein, Professor of Law, and Director, Energy, Environmental, & Natural Resources Systems Law Program, Texas A&M University School of Law

Diane Penneys Edelman, Director of International Programs, Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Frank Emmert, John S. Grimes Professor of Law, and Director, Center for International and Comparative Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Khaled Abou El Fadl, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Megan Fairlie, Professor of Law, Florida International University

Michael Fakhri, Associate Professor, University of Oregon School of Law

Tom Farer, University Professor and Dean Emeritus (1996-2010), Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

Brian R. Farrell, Lecturer in Law and Associate Director, Center for Human Rights, University of Iowa College of Law

Stephanie Farrior, Distinguished Lecturer and Human Rights Scholar, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College

Rebecca Feldmann, Assistant Professor of Clinical Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law.

Ben Ferencz, Former Chief Prosecutor, Einsatzgruppen Case (USA v. Ohlendorf et al.), Military Tribunal II, Nuremberg

Don Ferencz, Research Associate, Oxford University Faculty of Laws, Centre for Criminology

Martin Flaherty, Leitner Family Chair in International Human Rights, Fordham Law School, Visiting Professor, Princeton University

Stuart Ford, Professor of Law, UIC John Marshall Law School, The University of Illinois at Chicago

Gregory H. Fox, Professor of Law, and Director, Program for International Legal Studies, Wayne State University Law School

Niels W. Frenzen, Sydney M. and Audrey M. Irmas Endowed Clinical Professor of Law, University of Southern California

Barbara A. Frey, Director, Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota

Maryellen Fullerton, Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Paolo Galizzi, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Sustainable Development Legal Initiative & Corporate Social Responsibility, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law

Hannah Garry, Clinical Professor of Law, and Director, International Human Rights Clinic, USC Gould School of Law, University of Southern California

James Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair of International Law and Professor of Law, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law

David J. Gerber, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Program in International and Comparative Law, Chicago Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tyler Giannini, Clinical Professor of Law, and Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School

Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago Law School

Donald Glascoff, Former Chair of a Wall Street Law firm and a producer of the 2007 Oscar-winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, concerning U.S. treatment of detainees in Afghanistan

David Glazier, Professor of Law, Lloyd Telvis Fellow, Loyola Marymount University, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Robert K. Goldman, Professor of Law & Louis C. James Scholar, American University Washington College of Law

Colleen Graffy, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso Law School

Michael Greco, Boston, Massachusetts

Thomas Graham Jr, Former Ambassador, Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

Alexander K.A. Greenawalt, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, International Criminal Court Moot

Court Competition, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University

Dermot M. Groome, Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law, Former prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Nienke Grossman, Professor of Law, and Co-Director, Center for International and Comparative Law, University of Baltimore School of Law

Adil Haque, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School

Kip Hale, Former Prosecutor, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and Advisor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Oona A. Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Dina Francesca Haynes, Professor of Law, and Director, Human Rights and Immigration Law Project, New England Law Boston

Kevin Jon Heller, Associate Professor of International Law, University of Amsterdam; Professor of Law, Australian National University; Academic Member, Doughty Street Chambers (U.S. citizen and member, California Bar)

Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair, University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, University Term Professor, University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law

Alexandra Huneeus, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School Elizabeth Iglesias, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law

Jens Iverson, Assistant Professor of International Law, Leiden University (U.S. citizen and member, California Bar)

Larry Johnson, Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

David Kader, Emeritus Professor of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Daniel Kanstroom, Professor of Law, Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar, Faculty Director,

Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, Co-director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College Law School

Zachary D. Kaufman, Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Houston Law Center

David Kaye, Clinical Professor of Law, and Director, International Justice Clinic, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Patrick Keenan, Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law

Thomas Kelley, J. Dickson Phillips, Jr. Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law

J. Patrick Kelly, Professor of Law Emeritus, Widener University Delaware Law School

Michael J. Kelly, Senator Allen A. Sekt Endowed Chair in Law, School of Law, Creighton University, Director of the International Criminal Law and Holocaust Education summer program “From Nuremberg to The Hague”

Walter J. Kendall, Professor Emeritus of Law, UIC John Marshall Law School, The University of Illinois at Chicago

Frederic L. Kirgis, Law Alumni Association Professor of Law, Emeritus, Washington & Lee University School of Law

Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School; Former Legal Adviser (2009-2013) and Ass’t Sec’y, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1998-2001), U.S. Department of State

William P. Kratzke, Cecil C. Humphreys Professor of Law, University of Memphis School of Law

Christopher Kutz, C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor Law, University of California Berkeley School of Law

Bert Lockwood, Distinguished Service Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Law

David Luban, University Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Asaf Lubin, Associate professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (beginning Fall 2020); Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

Linda A. Malone, Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law, and Founding Director, Human Security Law Center and LLM in American Legal Studies, William & Mary Law School

I. Maxine Marcus, Director, Partners in International Justice

Craig Martin, Professor of Law and Co-Director, International and Comparative Law Center, Washburn University School of Law

Michael J. Matheson, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University Law School, former Acting Legal Adviser, US State Department, former Ambassador

Wayne McCormack, E.W. Thode Professor of Law, University of Utah

Gabrielle K. McDonald, Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Thomas M. McDonnell, Former Chair of the International Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools and Professor of Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Gay J. McDougall, Senior Fellow and Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice/Center for Race, Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law

Alexandra A. K. Meise, Senior Fellow, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania

Katie Herbert Meyer, Assistant Professor of Practice, and Director, Immigration Law Clinic, Washington University School of Law

Jonathan M. Miller, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School

William Mock, Professor of Law, UIC John Marshall Law School, The University of Illinois at Chicago

Saira Mohamed, Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley School of Law

Charles W. Mooney, Jr., Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Jennifer Moore, Professor of Law and Pamela Minzner Chair in Professionalism, University of New Mexico School of Law

Alberto Mora, Former General Counsel, Department of the Navy

Ved Nanda, Distinguished University Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Kimberly Norwood, Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law

John E. Noyes, Roger J. Traynor Professor Emeritus, California Western School of Law

Sara L. Ochs, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

Mary Ellen O’Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School

Diane Orentlicher, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

Mark J. Osiel, Aliber Family Chair in Law, University of Iowa College of Law

Alexander Papachristou, Executive Director, Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice

John T. Parry, Associate Dean of Faculty and Edward Brunet Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School

Ted Piccone, Nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution

Jordan J. Paust, Professor Emeritus, University of Houston Law Center, Former Captain, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and Faculty member, The Judge Advocate General’s School (1969-1973)

Rafael A. Porrata-Doria, Jr., Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Stephen Rapp, Former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2009-2015); Former Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone; Chief of Prosecutions, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Steven R. Ratner, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Henry J. Richardson, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

George (Rock) Pring, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

John Quigley, Professor Emeritus, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University

Alan Raphael, Curt and Linda Rodin Associate Professor of Law and Social Justice, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

John C. Reitz, Edward L. Carmody Professor of Law, and Director, SJD and LLM Program and Visiting Scholars, University of Iowa College of Law

L. Kathleen Roberts, Co-Director, Partners in International Justice

Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Albert Abramson Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of Law

Susana SáCouto, Director, War Crimes Research Office, Professorial Lecturer-in-Residence, American University Washington College of Law

Leila Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law Stephen P. Sawyer, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Beth Van Schaack, Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights, Stanford Law School

Michael P. Scharf, Joseph C. Hostetler – BakerHostetler Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University

David J. Scheffer, Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes issues (1997-2001)

Stephen J. Schnably, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law

Steven M. Schneebaum, Practitioner-in-Residence, Interim Director, International Law and Organizations Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University

Michael Seng, Professor of Law, and Director, Fair Housing Legal Support Center, Director, Czech/Slovak Legal Institute, Co-Director, Restorative Justice Project, UIC John Marshall Law School, The University of Illinois at Chicago

John Shattuck, Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1993-1998), and U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (1998-2000)

Stephen C. Sieberson, Professor of Law, Creighton University School of Law

Beth A. Simmons, Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law, Political Science and Business Ethics University of Pennsylvania

David Sloss, John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law

Frédéric Gilles Sourgens, Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law, and Editor-in-Chief, InvestmentClaims.com (Oxford University Press)

Ralph G. Steinhardt, Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence, George Washington University Law School

Beth Stephens, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law

Milena Sterio, The Charles R. Emrick Jr. – Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor of Law & LLM Programs Director, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

David P. Stewart, Professor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center, Chair Bd. Dirs. American Branch International Law Association

Melissa Stewart, Dash-Muse Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute

Rebecca K. Stewart, Associate Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Andrew Strauss, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Dayton School of Law

Jane Stromseth, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law, Georgetown University Law Center

David Tolbert, Former Deputy Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Jennifer Trahan, Clinical Professor and Director of the Concentration in International Law and Human Rights, NYU Center for Global Affairs

Johan D. van der Vyver, I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Emory University School of Law

Melissa A. Waters, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law

Lesley Wexler, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law

Clint Williamson, Former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2006-2009)

Mark Wojcik, Professor of Law, UIC John Marshall Law School, The University of Illinois at Chicago

Allen S. Weiner, Senior Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School, Director, Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law

Adrien K. Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law, Director, UI Center for Human Rights, University of Iowa College of Law

Ellen L. Yee, Professor of Law & Director of International Programs, Drake University Law School

Mark Zaid, Adjunct Professor, John’s Hopkins University, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Global Studies

Enid H.Adler, Esq., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jutta F. Bertram-Nothnagel, Vice President, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy

Geoffrey T. Dancy, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University

Dolores A. Donovan, Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco School of Law

Jessica Dorsey, Assistant Professor of International and European Law, Utrecht University (U.S. citizen)

Stephen Dycus, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Anne Marie Goetz, Clinical Professor, Center for Global Affairs, School of Professional Studies, New York

University

Deena R. Hurwitz, Earlysville, Virginia

Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., World Without Genocide at Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Larry Locker, Partner, Summit Law Group, Seattle, Washington

David Schwendiman, Former prosecutor, Deputy Chief Prosecutor and Head of the Special Department for War Crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina; former Specialist (Chief) Prosecutor, Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office

Ronald C. Slye, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law

Rachel E. VanLandingham, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School