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OAKLAND, Calif., Apr. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is a summary of news sources who are willing to discuss international law as it applies to war in Iraq. Each of these organizations issued news releases on the AScribe newswire. This summary of sources is provided by AScribe as a service for the media.

Amy Ross / University of Georgia

Ross, a geography professor, has followed the trials of Slobodan Milosevic, including several visits to the Hague. Her expertise lies in the study of human rights and wrongs, international justice, geographies of justice, international institutions and the global civil society, genocide and the spatiality of violence. Contact Ross at or (o) 706-542 1617; rossamy@uga.edu.

Kathleen Clark / Washington University, Saint Louis

Clark, professor of law, is an expert on ethics and national security law. She can address privacy issues that may arise in the U.S. during a war in the Middle East. She serves on the board of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. Clark also has worked on behalf of the Center for National Security Studies, commenting on the recent Justice Department regulation permitting the DOJ to listen in on lawyer-client conversations, and has submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the unconstitutionality of military tribunals. Contact Clark at (o) 314-935-4081; kathleen@wulaw.wustl.edu.

Leila Sadat / Washington University, Saint Louis

Sadat, professor of law, is an expert on the international criminal court and international criminal law. She can discuss issues such as the use of military tribunals during and after a war with Iraq. As chair of the International Law Association Committee on a Permanent International Criminal Court, she stresses that any international criminal court must be impartial and independent of political influence. She has studied legal issues surrounding the use of war tribunals against World War II-era criminals and more recent proposals for international tribunals to pursue modern-day war criminals. Contact Sadat at (o) 314-935-6411 or (h) 314-721-0958; sadat@wulaw.wustl.edu.

Burns Weston / University of Iowa

Weston is emeritus professor of law and director of the UI Center for Human Rights. He is an expert on international law, including human rights law, the laws of war, and the United Nations. Contact Weston at (o) 319-335-3900 or 319-335-9169; burns-weston@uiowa.edu.

Karima Bennoune / Rutgers University, Newark

Bennoune is assistant professor of law and a former a legal advisor at Amnesty International. She has published extensively on human rights issues in the Middle East. She can discuss public international law, international protection of human rights, women's legal issues and humanitarian law. Contact Bennoune at (o) 973-353-3375.

William Bradford / Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Bradford, an assistant professor of law, teaches national security law, military law and the laws of armed conflict. A retired officer of the U.S. Army who served overseas in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia, Bradford also holds a doctoral degree in political science with concentrations in U.S. foreign policy and Middle East politics. Contact Bradfor at (o) 317-274-4884; wibradfo@iupui.edu.

Harry Vanden / University of South Florida

Vanden, professor of government and international affairs, is an expert on international law and third world politics. Contact: Michelle Carlyon, USF Media Relations, 813-974-9082.

Saul Mendlovitz / Rutgers University, Newark

Mendlovitz, professor of law emeritus with the Rutgers School of Law-Newark, is the director of the World Order Models Project and a founding member of Global Action to Prevent War. He has written and spoken extensively on issues relating to international law and the promotion of a just world order. He can discuss international law, the United Nations, and transnational efforts to reduce armed violence. Contact Mendlovitz at (o) 973-353-5516.

William A. Lovett / Tulane University

Lovett, professor of law, is an expert on national security policy and international law. He can comment on U.S. efforts to gather international support for an attack on Iraq; regime change pressure; the U.S. attempt to isolate Sadaam Hussein; reaction in the international community to U.S. policy in the Middle East and economic implications of U.S. national security policy on a global scale. Contact Lovett at (o) 504-865-5960; wlovett@law.tulane.edu. Alternate contacts: Fran Simon or Madeline Vann, Tulane Media Relations, 504-588-5221.

Jonathan Marks / Wake Forest University

Marks, a visiting scholar at the School of Law, is a practicing barrister in London's Matrix Chambers. He is an international law expert who is teaching a class in the university's political science department on lawful responses to terrorism. Marks is available to discuss the question of going to war with Iraq, and the role of the United Nations in the ongoing conflict. Contact the Wake Forest News Service at 336-758-5237.

Paul J. Magnarella / University of Florida

Magnarella, professor of anthropology and law, is an expert on humanitarian, international and human rights law. A former expert on mission with the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and current special counsel to the Association of Third World Studies and the American Anthropological Association's Human Rights Committee, he can discuss the law of war, human rights law, Iraq and the Middle East. Contact Magnarella at (o) 352-392-4453, ext. 307; Magnarella@law.ufl.edu or paulmag@anthro.ufl.edu.

Scott Silliman / Duke University

Silliman, director of Duke's Center for Law, Ethics and National Security, is a former colonel in the U.S. Air Force who provided legal support to U.S.A.F. commanders during the Persian Gulf War. Contact Silliman at (o) 919-613-7138; silliman@law.duke.edu.

Marcella David / University of Iowa

David, professor of law, is an expert on economic and other sanctions, international criminal law, and questions related to international organizations. She teaches Introduction to Public International Law, International Organizations, US Foreign Relations Law, and Human Rights. She traveled to Iraq in 1992 as a Ford Foundation Fellow and recently served as guest editor to a symposium edition addressing economic sanctions on Iraq. Contact David at (o) 319-335-9133:marcella-david@uiowa.edu.

Robinson Everett / Duke University

Everett, a law professor, teaches a course on national security law. From 1980-90, served as chief judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals. Contact Everett at (o) 919-613-7047; everett@law.duke.edu.

William Banks / Syracuse University

Banks, professor of law, says "there remains a serious legal question about war with Iraq and U.S. law: Does the October 2002 congressional resolution permit the President to determine that the conditions merit an attack by the U.S.? Some think not, that additional domestic law authority is required before the President may take the U.S. to war against Iraq." Contact Banks at (o) 315-443-3784. Alternate contact: SUNews@syr.edu.

Michael Byers / Duke University

Byers is director of Duke Law School's Program in Comparative and International Law. He teaches international law, international economic law, international dispute settlement.He served as an adviser to a coalition of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, which intervened before the British House of Lords in the Pinochet case. Contact Byers at (o) 919-613-7016; byers@law.duke.edu.

Madeline Morris / Duke University

Morris, a law professor, is an expert on the international criminal law and issues relating to U.S. responses to the attacks. She has provided consultation to the U.S. State Department, Office of War Crimes Issues; served as advisor on justice to the president of Rwanda; special consultant to the Secretary of the U.S. Army; and co-convener of the Inter-African Cooperation on Truth and Justice program. Contact Morris at (o) 919)-613-7049; morris@law.duke.edu.

Louis Rene Beres / Purdue University

If America were to act against Iraq it would not violate international law, according to Beres, an expert in international law and relations. "America has the right to use force in Iraq under international law," says Beres, who has published extensively on the threat of nuclear terrorism and regional nuclear war. He also can talk about how international law handles countries that use civilian populations as part of their military strategy to deter attack. Contact Beres at (o) 765- 494-4189; beres@polsci.purdue.edu.