Four central players in creation of the new International Criminal Court will be honored at a dinner Nov. 10 at the University of Cincinnati.

        M. Cherif Bassiouni, Hans Corell, Philippe Kirsch and William R. Pace “all played key roles in the successful drafting of the Rome treaty that created a permanent International Criminal Court,” their host, Bert Lockwood, said Wednesday.

        Mr. Lockwood directs the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights at UC's law school.

        Mr. Bassiouni teaches at DePaul University law school. Mr. Corell is United Nations undersecretary general for legal affairs. Mr. Kirsch is Canada's ambassador to Sweden. Mr. Pace convened the coalition of non-governmental organizations that supports creation of the court.

        The dinner will follow a 6 p.m. reception at UC's Kingsgate Conference Center.

        It is open to the public. Tickets are $50. Reservations are requested by Nov. 2. Details: Nancy Ent at UC, 556-0068 or www.law.uc.edu/morgan.

        Mr. Lockwood said 60 countries must ratify the Rome treaty before the court can begin working at The Hague, in the Netherlands.

        Thirty-seven countries have ratified it so far and he expects the rest to do so before the end of 2002.

        Former President Clinton signed the treaty shortly before leaving office and left it to President Bush to decide whether to submit it to the Senate for required ratification.

        Initially, Mr. Lockwood said, it appeared Mr. Bush and the GOP-controlled Senate would oppose the treaty and pressure other countries to ignore it.

        However, Republicans lost control of the Senate and its foreign relations committee, Mr. Lockwood said, and terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 altered President Bush's go-it-alone approach to international problems.

        Now, Mr. Lockwood said, the International Criminal Court “would seem to fall into place as a useful part of the strategy in the war against terrorism.”

        That said, crimes of Sept. 11 will not fall under court jurisdiction because they occurred before it formally was created.

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