On August 13, 2017, the American Bar Association hosted two back-to-back panel discussions on the current state and future of international criminal law and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The first was a panel on US policy on the ICC and international criminal justice writ large. The panel included Janet Benshoof, president of the Global Justice Center and founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights, John Bellinger, former legal adviser of the Department of State, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a partner at Arnold & Porter, and Stephen Lamony, senior advocate for Africa at Amnesty International.

The second panel focused on recent developments in the ICC and the institution’s role in a shifting global political culture. The panel hosted hosted Fatou Bensouda, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court – the first woman to hold this position – and Ambassador David Scheffer, who served as the first US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes issues and is currently a professor of law.