Michael P. Scharf is co-dean at Case Western Reserve Law School and Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group. He has led USAID-funded transitional justice projects in Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, and Turkey (for Syria), and maritime piracy projects in Kenya, Mauritius, and the Seychelles. During the elder Bush and Clinton Administrations, he served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State.