The University of California,Davis School of Law is the professional graduate law school of the University of California,Davis. The school received ABA approval in 1968. It joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1968.
Philip Caryl Jessup was a 20th-century American diplomat,scholar,and jurist notable for his accomplishments in the field of international law.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. with campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
Harold Hongju Koh is an American diplomat,lawyer,legal scholar,politician,and writer who served as the legal adviser of the Department of State in the Obama administration. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23,2009,and confirmed by the Senate on June 25,2009. He left the State Department in January 2013,returning to Yale University as a Sterling Professor of international law. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007.
JoséAlberto Cabranes is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a former presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ("FISCR"). Formerly a practicing lawyer,government official,and law teacher,he was the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal judgeship in the continental United States (1979).
Louis Henkin was an American legal scholar. He was considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States. He was a former president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and University Professor emeritus at Columbia Law School. He was until his death the chairman of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Russell Morris Dallen Jr. or Russ Dallen was an American economist,financial advisor,international lawyer,publisher,and journalist. From 2000 to 2007,he was head of the Latin American office of investment bank Oppenheimer &Co. in Caracas,Venezuela.
Diane Pamela Wood is an American attorney who serves as the director of the American Law Institute and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. She previously served as a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Michael P. Scharf is co-dean,Joseph C. Hostetler –BakerHostetler professor of law,and the director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Scharf is also co-founder of the Public International Law &Policy Group (PILPG),a non-governmental organization (NGO) which provides pro bono legal assistance to developing states and states in transition. Since 1995 PILPG has provided pro bono legal assistance to states and governments involved in peace negotiations,drafting post-conflict constitutions,and prosecuting war criminals. Since March 2012,Scharf has also been the producer and host of Talking Foreign Policy,a one-hour radio program aired on a quarterly basis on Cleveland’s NPR affiliate WCPN 90.3 ideastream.
Sarah Elizabeth Savoia Vance is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Samuel Estreicher is Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Public Law at New York University School of Law,Director of its Center for Labor and Employment and Director of its Institute of Judicial Administration. He has published dozens of articles and several books on labor law,employment law,employment discrimination law,U.S. foreign relations law,international law,and Supreme Court decision-making.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University,in Medford,Massachusetts. Fletcher is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations. As of 2017,the student body numbered around 230,of whom 36 percent were international students from 70 countries,and around a quarter were U.S. minorities.
Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at Washington University School of Law and the former Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. She has served as Special Advisor on Crimes Against Humanity to Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court since December 12,2012. Sadat is the Director of The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative,a multi-year project to study the problem of crimes against humanity and draft a comprehensive convention addressing their punishment and prevention. She has spearheaded the international effort to establish this new global convention. In 2012 Sadat was elected to membership in the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations,and in 2018 was elected as the President of the American Branch of the International Law Association for a two-year term in October 2018.
Oona Anne Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School,Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science,Professor at the Jackson School of Global Affairs,and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges. She is also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State since 2005. In 2014-15,she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense,where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. She is the Director of the annual Yale Cyber Leadership Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also Executive Editor of and regular author at Just Security,and she writes often for popular publications such as The Washington Post,New York Times,and Foreign Affairs. She is one of the most highly cited international law scholars in the United States,and she regularly appears as a public commentator on issues of international law,national security law,foreign relations law,and constitutional law.
Sean David Murphy is an American international law scholar and practitioner currently serving as the Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington,D.C.,where he has been teaching since 1998. His primary areas of scholarly research are public international law,foreign affairs and the Constitution of the United States,international organizations,international dispute settlement,and law of the sea. Murphy served for ten years on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and is a former president of the American Society of International Law. He was elected twice by the United Nations General Assembly to serve as a Member of the U.N. International Law Commission (ILC) during 2012-2022. He was named by the ILC as Special Rapporteur for Crimes Against Humanity,a topic on which he has lectured widely.
Sarah E. Mendelson is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Mendelson was confirmed by the Senate on October 8,2015,and sworn into her post on October 15,2015. In 2017,Mendelson was named Distinguished Service Professor and head of Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College's program in Washington,D.C.
Jennifer Gillian Newstead is an American attorney who served as the Legal Adviser of the Department of State.
Diane Orentlicher is a professor of international law at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington,D.C.,and serves as Co-Faculty Director of its Center on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In the mid-1990s,she founded the law school's War Crimes Research Office,which provides legal analysis in support of international and transitional justice initiatives.
Beth Van Schaack is an American attorney and academic who serves as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice.
