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International Law

Feb. 8, 2013

Norb Ehrenfreund and the International Criminal Court

The Obama administration has created a working relationship between the U.S. and the ICC, though we still have yet to ratify the Rome Statute or join the ICC as a party. By Dan Lawton

Dan Lawton

Partner, Klinedinst PC in San Diego

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San Diego , CA 92101

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Email: dlawton@klinedinstlaw.com

Georgetown Univ Law Center

The views expressed here are his own.


By Dan Lawton


In 1939 an American teenager, Norb Ehrenfreund, came home from school to find his mother in tears. She sat on the sofa, clutching several envelopes. Norb asked her what was wrong. Too choked up to answer, she handed the envelopes to him. They were unopened letters she had sent to her father (Norb's grandfather) in Czechoslovakia. The grandfather was a letter-writer; he would not have moved without telling his family in America about it. Someone ...

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