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About—Center Personnel
John P. CeroneDirector of the Center
Professor John P. Cerone teaches Public International Law, Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Law, and serves as director of the law school's Center for International Law and Policy. He has been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and a visiting scholar at the International Criminal Court. He has also received two Fulbright awards, as a Fulbright scholar at both the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Before joining the New England faculty in 2004, Professor Cerone was executive director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University Washington College of Law, where he served as a legal adviser to various international criminal courts and tribunals. He has taught courses and given guest lectures in various countries throughout the world, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Kosovo, Japan, Germany, Albania, East Timor, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Laos, Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Serbia, Colombia, Malta, Sweden, Canada, Kenya, Tanzania, Cambodia, Malaysia, China, and Indonesia. As a practicing international lawyer, Professor Cerone has worked for a number of different intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, including the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, and the International Crisis Group. He also has extensive field experience in conflict and post-conflict environments, such as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and East Timor. He is accredited by the United Nations to represent the American Society of International Law before various U.N. bodies. 
Tawia Ansah
Professor Tawia Ansah teaches Contracts and International Business Transactions. Before joining the New England faculty, he was a visiting professor at Syracuse University's College of Law. He previously was a legal consultant with JP MorganChase in New York, conducting investigative research into Securities and Exchange Commission compliance issues, respecting initial public offerings and the self-regulation of the investment banking industry. He has also worked as a contract attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, researching telecommunications mergers and acquisitions, anti-trust, and corporate issues. He served as an assistant prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada. His international legal experience includes service with the Council of Europe (Kosovo and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the United Nations Human Rights Field Operation (Kigali, Rwanda), and the United Nations Centre for Human Rights (Geneva). He received a B.A., an M.A., and an M. Phil. from Columbia University, an LL.B. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. 
Michael P. Scharf,Chairman of the Board of Advisers
A member of the New England faculty from 1993-2002, Professor Scharf was the founder and first director of the New England Center for International Law and Policy. Before joining the New England faculty in 1993, Professor Scharf worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State, where he served as attorney-adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, attorney-adviser for United Nations affairs, and a member of the United States Delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and Human Rights Commission. A former clerk for the Honorable Gerald Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, he is the author of numerous articles and several books on international criminal law and international human rights law, including "Balkan Justice", which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, and "The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda", which won the American Society of International Law's Book of the Year award for 1999. A past chair of the Washington, D.C., Bar's International Law Section and of the program committee of the International Law Association's International Law Weekend, he is currently the executive director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, chair of the American Bar Association's International Institutions Committee, chair of the American Society of International Law's International Organizations Interest Group, and a member of the board of directors of the International Law Students Association. He teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, the Law of International Organizations, the International War Crimes Project, and International Criminal Law. During a sabbatical in the spring of 2000, he was a visiting professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and served as foreign policy adviser to the Bill Bradley presidential campaign. 
Thomas C. Fischer,Chairman of the Board of Associated Scholars and Advisers
A former dean of New England School of Law, Professor Fischer has been on the faculty since 1978. Before coming to New England, he served as assistant dean of Georgetown University Law Center, assistant executive director of the American Bar Foundation (the research arm of the American Bar Association), and associate dean of the University of Dayton School of Law. He is the author of numerous books, including "The Europeanization of America: What Americans Need to Know About the European Union" (1996), "Allies or Adversaries? The United States, the European Union, and the Globalization of World Trade" (2000), and "Quick Review of Conflict of Laws" (2000). He teaches Conflict of Laws and European Union Law. In 1996-97, he was a fellow of the Inns of Court (London) and Wolfson College, Cambridge, and he spent spring 2000 in England, researching and lecturing. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Education. Associated ScholarsThe Center receives continuing support and guidance from its associated scholars and board of advisers, which includes faculty members at New England School of Law, as well as scholars, practitioners, and administrators from outside the law school who share a common interest in the activities of the Center. Associated Scholars (New England School of Law faculty)
Board of AdvisersJose Alvarez
M. Cherif Bassiouni
Werner F. Ebke, L.L.M.
Mark Ellis
Valerie Epps
Thomas C. Fischer
Richard G. Huber
John Norton Moore
Daniel Partan
Barry A.K. Rider
Alfred Rubin
William Schabas
Michael P. Scharf
Scott Silliman
John Usher
Sir David G.T. Williams, Q.C., DL
Paul Williams
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