Kenneth Anderson, Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University, is the founder and former Director of the Human Rights Watch Arms Division. He was the legal editor for Crimes of War: What the Public Needs to Know (Eds. Gutman and Rieff. 1999) and is the author of many articles.

Andrew Arato is Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Sociology and Co-chair of the Committee for the Study of Democracy at the New School University’s Graduate Faculty. He is the author of Civil Society, Constitution and Legitimacy (2000).

Gary J. Bass is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the author of Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals (2000). A former reporter for The Economist, he has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, and other publications.

Col. Charles Garraway is with the Directorate of Army Legal Services, Ministry of Defence, Great Britain. He has been a participant in the UK delegation for ICC negotiations as well as in various weaponry conventions and is a visiting instructor at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Italy.

Justice Richard J. Goldstone sits on the South African Constitutional Court and serves as chairman of the International Bar Association’s Task Force on International Terrorism. He was the chairman of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Col. Anthony E. Hartle is Professor of Philosophy and English, United States Military Academy. He helped to design the United States Military Academy ethics curriculum. He is the author of Moral Issues in Military Decision-Making (1989).

Arthur C. Helton is Senior Fellow in Refugee Studies and Preventive Action, and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is co-author of Forced Displacement and Human Security in the Former Soviet Union: Law and Policy (year), and his articles have appeared in the New York Times and Newsweek.

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is the former U.S Permanent Representative to the U.N. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Special Presidential Envoy to Cyprus, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Stephen Holmes is Professor of Law at New York University. His books include The Cost of Rights (1999) and Passions and Constraints: The Theory of Liberal Democracy (1995).

Michael Ignatieff is director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His books include The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (1997) and Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (1999). He writes frequently for the New York Review of Books, New Republic and New York Times Magazine.

Bob Kerrey is President of the New School University. He is a former United States Senator from Nebraska and former Governor of Nebraska.

Theodor Meron, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at New York University, is currently serving as the American Judge (appeals chamber) of the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague. His books include Henry’s Wars and Shakespeare’s Laws: Perspectives on the Laws of War in the Later Middle Ages (1993) and War Crimes Law Comes of Age: Essays (1998).

Aryeh Neier is President of the Open Society Institute. Formerly Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, he also served as National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. His books include War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror and the Struggle for Justice (1998), and his articles have appeared in numerous publications.

W. Hays Parks is Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the Army at the Pentagon and Adjunct Professor of International Law, American University School of Law. In 2001 he received the U.S. Special Operations Command Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, their top civilian award. His articles have appeared in numerous military and legal journals.

Martin Peretz is Chairman and Editor in Chief of the New Republic. He holds numerous honorary degrees, as well as the Medal of Distinction of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism and the National Magazine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Essays and Criticisms of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Samantha Power, a policy fellow at the Open Society Institute, is the former Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. She covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the US News and World Report and The Economist. She is the author of “A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (2002).

David Rieff is a Senior Fellow of The World Policy Institute at the New School University. He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic. His most recent book, a Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, was published in 2002

Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, is a former federal prosecutor who has conducted human rights investigations around the globe.

David Scheffer was U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues in the Clinton Administration, where he was engaged in the establishment of and support for international criminal tribunals and led the U.S. delegation to U.N. talks on the International Criminal Court. He is currently Senior Vice President of the United Nations Association of the U.S.

Judge Patricia M. Wald Outgoing U.S. judge on 14-member panel at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, which hears cases about wartime atrocities in the former Yugoslavia. Formerly she was Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Michael Walzer, a Professor at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, is co-editor of Dissent. Among his many books are On Toleration (2000) and Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (1983).