David J. Scheffer

David J. Scheffer is visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a law professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for Crimes Issues, serving during the second term of the Clinton Administration. Scheffer is also the Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow working with the Ferencz International Justice Initiative at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum. From 2012 to 2018 he was the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Expert on U.N. Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. His recent books are All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Princeton, 2012) and The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace (Oxford, 2019). 

A medical professional shows a negative test for novel coronavirus in front of Mane Garrincha Stadium, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 21, 2020. The photo shows a health worker holding a test at the camera with a stadium in the background. the photographer is using a telephoto/macro lens so that everything is blurred out in the shot, including the man, with the exception of the small plastic cassette-like test. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
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Don’t Discriminate Against Those Who Remain Uninfected

by David J. Scheffer

Could barring people who were never sick from returning to work and school perversely incentivize getting COVID-19?