NEWS 5 CLEVELAND — He has testified on Capitol Hill. He has been cited and interviewed in publications far and wide. But now, the co-dean of Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law will have the distinct opportunity rarely afforded to American attorneys: argue a case before the world’s highest criminal court, the International Criminal Court. Michael Scharf, a preeminent expert in international law, will present a friend-of-the-court argument before the Appeals Chamber of the International Crimes Court (ICC) in The Hague on Monday, Feb. 14. The ICC investigates and tries people charged with crimes against humanity as well as the gravest crimes of concern to the international community, including genocide, war crimes, crimes of humanity and crimes of aggression. A total of 123 countries are members of the ICC. Scharf will be presenting the appellate argument in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a brigadier general of the Lord’s Resistance Army, an extremist and insurgent group linked to alleged crimes against humanity across Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among other African nations.