The International Criminal Law specialists on our faculty have worked for the International Tribunals, International Monetary Fund, U.N. Counter-Terrorism Task Force, U.S. Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Justice; have published 14 books related to this area of law; have testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives; and have appeared more than 300 times in the national and international media during the past three years.

MICHAEL P. SCHARF Courses: International Criminal Law and Procedure
Michael Scharf is the John Deaver Drinko – Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Global Legal Studies, with supervisory responsibility over the international law centers, institutes, and programs at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Scharf is also the host of “Talking Foreign Policy,” a radio program broadcast on WCPN 90.3 FM (Cleveland’s NPR station). In addition, he serves as President of the International Criminal Law Network and Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO. During a sabbatical in 2008, Scharf served as Special Assistant to the Prosecutor of the Cambodia Genocide Tribunal. During the elder Bush and Clinton Administrations, Scharf served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he held the positions of Attorney-Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Attorney-Adviser for United Nations Affairs, and delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. A graduate of Duke University School of Law (Order of the Coif and High Honors), and judicial clerk to Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat on the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, Scharf is the author of over seventy scholarly articles and fourteen books, including “The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda” which was awarded the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit for outstanding book in 1999, and “Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein,” which won the International Association of Penal Law’s book of the year award for 2009 . His latest book is “Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser” (Cambridge University Press, 2010). A past recipient of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alumni Association’s “Distinguished Teacher Award” and Ohio Magazine’s “Excellence in Education Award,” Scharf teaches International Law, International Criminal Law, the Law of International Organizations, and the War Crimes Research Lab.

JONATHAN H. ADLER Courses: International Environmental Law
Jonathan Adler is Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation. A prolific scholar, his articles on environmental and regulatory law and policy have appeared in numerous publications, ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Supreme Court Economic Review to the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The author or editor of three books, he is a regular commentator on legal and regulatory issues, appearing on CNN World News, NPR's Talk of the Nation, the Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" and PBS' Newshour with Jim Lehrer. In 2004, Professor Adler received the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students, and in 2007 he received the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association's "Distinguished Teacher Award." Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online, where he covers environmental and legal topics, and is a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, "The Volokh Conspiracy."

MICHAEL J. BENZA Course: International Law and the Death Penalty
Michael Benza was the 1992 Biskind Fellow from the School of Law and spent a year working for the Legal Resources Centre, a civil and human rights law firm in South Africa. Upon returning to the States, he spent four years in the Capital Defense Unit at the Office of the Ohio Public Defender. He was assistant counsel at the Cleveland Bar Association working with the Certified Grievance Committee as well as other committees. Professor Benza teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure I, Death Penalty Issues, and the Death Penalty Lab, and coached the Mock Trial team. The Student Bar Association selected Professor Benza as the Professor of the Year in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2009 Professor Benza was elected as an alumni member to the Society of Benchers. He continues to represent death row inmates in state courts and federal habeas proceedings. He has litigated capital cases in state trial courts, state appellate and post-conviction courts, and federal courts including arguing Smith v. Spisak before the Supreme Court of the United States.

AVIDAN COVER Courses: International Human Rights
Prior to his appointment at Case Western, Professor Cover taught at the Seton Hall University School of Law, where he supervised the Urban Revitalization Project in Newark, New Jersey. In addition, he was a Gibbons Public Interest and Constitutional Law Fellow from 2007 to 2009 during which time he litigated prisoner’s rights, same-sex marriage, national security and education cases in federal and state court. Professor Cover also served as Senior Counsel in Human Rights First’s Law and Security Program where he researched and analyzed U.S. military and intelligence agencies’ interrogation and detention policies and practices.

CAROL T. FOX Courses: International War Crimes Research Lab
Carol Fox graduated from law school after a career as a teacher of English in the Shaker Heights City Schools and a trainer of teachers through programs with The College Board. After completing her JD with an International Law Concentration and interning at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Professor Fox became Deputy Director of the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office, and for two years was co-advisor of the Journal of International Law. She continues to teach (with Professor Michael Scharf) in the International War Crimes Research Lab each semester. Professor Fox also designed and serves as director of the school’s Academic and Writing Support Program (AWSP).

RICHARD GORDON Courses: Global Financial Integrity Lab, International Tax
Richard Gordon joined the law faculty and began teaching courses on International Business, Corporate Governance, and Financial Sector Integrity. Earlier, he practiced law at Dewey Ballantine in Washington, D.C. and taught at Harvard Law School, where he was deputy director of the International Tax Program. He also taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He has done extensive fieldwork on law and development in both Indonesia and rural India. For nearly 10 years, Prof. Gordon worked with the International Monetary Fund, as both senior counsel and senior financial sector expert working on tax, sovereign debt restructuring, and government corruption. Following the 9/11 attacks, he was appointed to the select IMF Task Force on Terrorism Finance and was a principal author of the report on the role of the IMF and World Bank in countering terrorism finance and money laundering.

JUSTIN HERDMAN Courses: Counter-terrorism Law and Policy
Justin Herdman has been an adjunct professor at the School of Law since 2005. He is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Ohio, National Security Division. Mr. Herdman's work as a federal prosecutor focuses on the investigation and prosecution of terrorism, espionage, and other national security crimes.

STEPHEN LYNCH Course: Formation of Government Contracts (Military Procurement Law)
Stephen Lynch is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, who currently serves as a legal assistance attorney for U.S. Coast Guard members in the Ninth District of Ohio. He is also a trainer on military law for military legal assistance attorneys and civil legal aid providers.

DALE NANCE Course: International Antiquities/Archaeology Law
Dale Nance has taught and written about the law and theory of property for many years. Before joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve University, he taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law as well as in the law schools of Cornell University, the University of San Diego, the University of Colorado, and Northern Illinois University. He earned his J.D. from Stanford University and his M.A. (Jurisprudence and Social Policy) from the University of California, Berkeley.

CRAIG ALLEN NARD Courses: International Intellectual Property Law
Craig Allen Nard is the founding director of the law school’s Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts. He is a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy, and Principal Advisor to the Center for Studies and Research in Intellectual Property in Calcutta, India.

GREGORY P. NOONE Courses: International Humanitarian Law
Gregory P. Noone has taught at the School of Law since 2002. He is director of the Fairmont State University National Security and Intelligence Program and an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law. A member of the Public International Law and Policy Group PILPG), Prof. Noone previously worked for the U.S. Institute of Peace, where he received a Special Act Award for his work in Afghanistan. Now a Captain in the Navy Reserve, he served as a judge advocate in the U.S. Navy. Prof. Noone held various positions in the Navy, including acting Head of the International Law Branch and the Foreign Military Rights Affairs Branch in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) International and Operational Law Division at the Pentagon.

ROBERT N. STRASSFELD Courses: Intervention and Law: Iraq and Vietnam, National Security Law
Robert Strassfeld is Director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center. A legal historian and advisor to the ACLU, Prof. Strassfeld has published major law review articles about torture and extraordinary rendition and about the Vietnam War.