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"WILL SADDAM HUSSEIN GET A FAIR TRIAL?"
Noon – 1 PM  *  Thursday, January 13, 2005
Case Western Reserve University School of Law * Moot Courtroom (A59)

• Is the Iraqi Tribunal legitimate under international law?
• Can Saddam get a fair trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal
• Does Saddam Hussein have any valid defenses to the crimes charged? 

DEBATERS:
Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler –
Curtis Doebbler is a member of the legal team representing Saddam Hussein. He is an international human rights lawyer with more than fifteen years experience representing individuals before international human rights bodies including the U.N., and the European, African and Inter-American systems for the protection of human rights. Dr. Doebbler has advised governments and non-government organizations and taught international human rights law at universities in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In addition, he has lectured at several law schools in the U.S. and South America. His articles are regularly published in both scholarly journals and national newspapers. Dr. Doebbler is Professor of Law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. He is also qualified to practice before the courts of the District of Columbia. His latest books are International Human Rights Law: Cases and Materials (2004) and An Introduction to International Human Rights Law (2005).

Professor Michael P. Scharf –
Michael Scharf is Professor of Law and Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case School of Law.  In October 2004, he was one of five international experts invited to London to train the judges of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, which will be trying Saddam Hussein.  During the G.H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations, he worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, as Attorney-Adviser for U.N. Affairs and as Attorney Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, and served as a member of the U.S. delegations to the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Prior to that, he was clerk to the Honorable Gerald B. Tjoflat of the 11th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. Author of eight books, Professor Scharf has won two National Book Awards and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

MODERATOR:
Hiram Chodosh, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Joseph C. Hostetler – Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law, Case School of Law