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Welcome! International and comparative law has long been part of education at the George Washington University, which was founded in 1821. In 1898, public international law courses were offered at GW's School of International Jurisprudence and Diplomacy. Our Intellectual Property Law Program, which has made GW Law a world leader in intellectual property law, was founded in 1895 when the law school added the degree in Master’s in Patent Law. Other programs and centers have contributed to GW Law's engagement in international law: The Government Procurement Law Program, started in the 1960s; the International Rule of Law Center, founded in the 1990s; the Center for Law Economics and Finance (C-LEAF) and the National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law program, established in 2005; and the Center for Competition Law, started in 2008. We hope you enjoy these 150 insights into our history. We appreciate that many people beyond those listed have made GW Law a leader, so we celebrate all who have contributed. The collective representation is remarkable; a diverse group of people found its way to GW Law and forever shaped the world around them. SUSAN L. KARAMANIAN Burnett Family Professorial Lecturer in International and Comparative Law and Policy Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies
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The 150th anniversary of the George Washington University Law School allows us to reflect on GW Law’s contribution to international and comparative law. Since its founding in 1865, GW Law has had a distinguished faculty. Early professors teaching international law included U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Harlan and David Brewer, U.S. Secretary of State John W. Foster, Rear Admiral Charles Herbert Stockton, and one of the founders of the American Society of International Law, James Brown Scott. In recent decades, Louis B. Sohn; Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice; and Dinah Shelton, President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, have been on the faculty.
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Foreign lawyers began attending GW Law in the late 1800s. Graduates from abroad include: His Excellency Chimed Saikhanbileg Prime Minister of Mongolia The Honorable Árpád Bogsch Second Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization The Honorable Dhia Sheet Khattab Chief Judge, Conseil d’Etat, Iraq The Honorable Dasho Tshering Wangchuk Chief Justice of Bhutan The Honorable Shera Lhendup Attorney General of Bhutan GW Law has a tradition of service. This is true of our faculty and foreign graduates as well as our U.S. alumni, such as Belva Lockwood, who attended numerous European Peace Conferences and twice ran for President of the United States; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; and Senators J. William Fulbright, Daniel Inouye, and Harry Reid.
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Presidents: His Excellency José Abad Santos (LLM 1909), de facto Head of the Philippines; former Chief Justice of the Philippines; image on Philippine 1000 peso. His Excellency Syngman Rhee (LLD Hon. '54), First President of the Republic of Korea. The Honorable Phongthep Thepkanjana (MCL ’79, MCL ’83), Deputy Prime Minister, Education Minister, Energy Minister, and Minister of Justice of Thailand. The Honorable Mihnea Motoc (LLM ’92), Minister of Defense of Romania.
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The Honorable Dasho Tshering Wangchuk (LLM ’03), Chief Justice of Bhutan.
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The Honorable Shera Lhendup (LLM ’01), Attorney General of Bhutan.
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His Excellency Chimed Saikhanbileg (LLM 2004) Prime Minister of Mongolia.
The Honorable Dhia Sheet Khattab (MCL ’63), Chief Judge, Conseil d’Etat; Chief Judge, Court of Cassation, Iraq. The Honorable Árpád Bogsch (MCL ’56), second Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization. The Honorable John Chen Chung Deng (MCL ’82, MCL ’85), Minister of Economic Affairs, Republic of China. His Excellency Clovis Maksoud (JD ’51), Arab League Ambassador to United States; he helped move the U.N. General Assembly to Geneva when the United States denied a visa to PLO Chair Yasser Arafat.
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His Excellency Dr. Ta-Tung Chang (SJD ’88), representative of the Republic of China to Singapore. His Excellency George Cristian Maior (LLM ’92), Ambassador of Romania to the United States. His Excellency Mahmoud D. Hmoud (LLM ’93), Legal Adviser to the Foreign Ministry of Jordan; member, U.N. International Law Commission. His Excellency Wilson Masilingi (LLM ’95), Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania to the United States. His Excellency Jorge Cicero Fernandez (SJD ’95), Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to UNESCO. The Honorable Félix Córdova Dávila (LLB 1903), Puerto Rico’s fourth Resident Commissioner to the U.S. Congress; Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. The Honorable Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia (JD ’84), Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. Congress. Dr. Luis José Diez Canseco Núñez (MCL ’88), Past President, Court of Justice of the Andean Community.
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The Honorable Su Pu Kao (SJD ’98), Minister for Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs, Republic of China. The Honorable Najem Al Zaid (SJD ’10), Commissioner, Capital Markets Authority, Saudi Arabia. The Honorable Wynante Mary Adrien-Roberts (LLM ’01), High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, assigned to Grenada. His Excellency Masaichi Noma (LLB 1890), Japanese diplomat; in a February 10, 1904 letter to South China Morning Post, he announced Japan’s declaration of war on Russia. Prosecutors: The Honorable Kenkichi Kodera (LLB, LLM 1900; Doctorate in Civil Laws 1901), member, Imperial Japanese Diet; later, Mayor, Kobe, Japan.
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Hsiang Che-Chun (LLB ’25), Chinese prosecutor, International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo (Tokyo Trials); Cheol Kyu Hwang, Deputy Minister for Crime Prevention Policy, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea and vice-president, International Association of Prosecutors. Members of Legislative Bodies: The Honorable Sara Adwao Safo (LLM ’05), Member of Parliament, Ghana; The Honorable Pearnel Charles, Jr. (LLM ’09), Senator and Minister of State, Ministry of Security, Jamaica; and The Honorable Mariam Sajaia (LLM ’14), Member of Parliament, Georgia. The Honorable Anderson Ray Zikonda (LLM '80), High Court Judge of Zambia.
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Cabinet, State or War: The Honorable John Foster Dulles (LLB 1911), U.S. Secretary of State; The Honorable Patrick J. Hurley (LLB 1908), member of Choctaw Nation who was U.S. Secretary of War; later, Special Envoy to New Zealand and U.S. Ambassador to China. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury: The Honorable David M. Kennedy (LLB ’35, LLM ’37) (also, U.S. Ambassador to NATO) and The Honorable John Snow (JD ’67).
30 The Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris (JD ’60), first African American woman to serve as a U.S. Ambassador (Ambassador to Luxembourg); first African American woman in the U.S. Cabinet, first as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and then as Secretary of Health and Human Services (previously Health, Education, and Welfare); after leaving government, GW Law faculty member.
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The Honorable Dan Glickman (JD ’69), U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; later, Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America. The Honorable William Barr (JD ’77), U.S. Attorney General; later, General Counsel, Verizon.
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The Honorable Robert Daniel Murphy (LLB ’20, LLM ’28), Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; U.S. Ambassador to Japan. The Honorable Allen Dulles (LLB ’26), Director, Central Intelligence Agency. FBI Directors: The Honorable Stanley Finch (LLB 1908, LLM 1909); The Honorable A. Bruce Bielaski (LLB 1904); and The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover (LLB 1916, LLM 1917). FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt (JD '40), as Special Agent was "Deep Throat," the Watergate informant to Robert Woodward of The Washington Post. U.S. Senators: J. William Fulbright (LLB ’34, LLD ’59), founder, Fulbright Scholarship Program; Daniel Inouye (JD ’53), earned Medal of Honor, then after WW II strengthened U.S.-Japanese ties, and received Japan’s Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun; and Harry Reid (JD ’64), former Senate Majority Leader. Additional U.S. Ambassadors: His Excellency E. Ross Adair (LLB ’33), U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and member, U.S. House of Representatives; His Excellency William Tapley Bennet, Jr. (JD ’48), U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, and U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO; and His Excellency Charles T. Manatt (JD ’62), U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Chair, Democratic National Committee. Leon Jaworski (MCL '26) was the Watergate Special Prosecutor and argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ordered President Richard Nixon to produce his secret tapes. U.S. Department of Justice: Gregory Garre (JD ’91), U.S. Solicitor General; argued Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council relating to U.S. Navy’s use of sonar and the environment; now, Partner, Latham & Watkins; Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell (JD '82), heads the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division.
39 Grace Kanode Llewellyn (LLB ’31), member, U.S. prosecution team, Tokyo Trials; first woman to appear as counsel before an international criminal tribunal.
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James E. Webb (LLB ’36), Administrator, NASA; previously, Under Secretary of State.
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Paul G. Dembling (JD ’51), General Counsel, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, precursor to NASA; authored legislation that established NASA. Federal judges: The Honorable Randall R. Rader (JD ’78), retired Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and expert in international and comparative patent law; The Honorable Carlos F. Lucero (JD ’64), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, involved in judicial outreach to Central and South America; The Honorable Barbara Milano Keenan (JD ’74), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, author of an opinion reinstating claims under the Alien Tort Statute due to the situation at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; The Honorable James Robertson (LLB ’65), retired U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court but resigned in protest; The Honorable Gerald E. Rosen (JD ’79), former Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, due to prosecutorial misconduct dismissed a conviction against two Moroccans alleged to be part of a sleeper cell, and later presided over the Detroit bankruptcy case. The Honorable John D. Holum (JD ’70), Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; later, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security under President William J. Clinton.
Register of Copyrights: The Honorable Marybeth Peters (JD ’71), 11th U.S. Register of Copyrights (1994-2011), led implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994 and other laws addressing international copyright matters; and The Honorable Maria Pallante (JD ’90), U.S. Register of Copyrights.
45 The Honorable Mary Schapiro (JD ’80), first woman to chair U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC; 2009-12); oversaw SEC after 2008 international financial crisis.
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The Honorable Mary DeRosa (JD ’84), Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel to the President; National Security Council Legal Adviser to President Barack Obama. The Honorable Carmen Oritz (JD ’81), U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts; prosecutor on the Boston Marathon bombing case.
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Ed Cummings (JD ’75), Assistant Legal Adviser for Politico-Military Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Counselor for Legal Affairs, U.S. mission in Geneva; U.S. head of delegation to negotiations on the Convention on Conventional Weapons. Probir Mehta (JD ’02), Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for Intellectual Property and Innovation, Office of the USTR Eric O’Neill (JD ’03), undercover FBI agent whose work led to arrest of fellow agent, Robert Hanssen, a Russian spy. His role in outing Hanssen is documented in the film Breach. Jodi Herman (JD ’04), Democratic Staff Director, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Recent lawyers in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State: Alicia Cate (JD ’01), Samuel W. McDonald (JD ’05), Kevin Baumert (JD ’06), Julie Martin (JD ’06), Emily Newton (JD ’10), Emily Pierce (JD ’11), and Niels Von Deuten (JD ’11).
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General Earl E. Anderson (JD ’52), youngest active duty Marine to become four-star general; veteran of WW II, Korea, and Vietnam; awarded American Bar Association Medal. Major General John L. Fugh (JD ’60), first Asian American general, U.S. Army; Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army; Executive Vice President, Boeing in Beijing. Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Navy: Real Admiral John Jenkins (JD ’61), Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy and later, GW Law Senior Associate Dean; and Vice Admiral Nanette Derenzi (LLM ’96), first female Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy. Captain Frank Barrows Freyer (LLB 1913), U.S. Navy Captain; 14th Naval Governor of Guam.
Captain Weston Burnett (JD ’75, LLM ’93), Judge Advocate, U.S. Navy; GW trustee; family established GW Law’s Burnett Family International and Comparative Law and Policy Dean’s Fund.
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Major Steven Schooner (LLM ’89), Judge Advocate, U.S. Army; GW Law Nash and Cibinic Professor of Government Procurement Law; Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program; lectures around the world on comparative public procurement.
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Kingsley K. K. Ampofo (LLM ’98), Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ghana School of Law; intellectual property law. Dr. Vincent Nmehielle (SJD ’00), Professor, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg; international law.
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Dr. Michael F. Noone, Jr. (SJD ’65), Professor, Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law; international humanitarian law; law of war.
62 Dr. M. Cherif Bassiouni (SJD ’73), Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, DePaul University; international criminal law.
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Dr. Nadia de Araujo (MCL ’84), Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; private international law. Dr. Shavit Matias (SJD ’97), Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; former Deputy Attorney General, Israel; international law. Dr. Jo Pasqualucci (SJD ’02), Professor, University of South Dakota Law School; international law and human rights.
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Hsen Shuen Foo (LLB ’11), first graduate from China; helped develop Comparative Law School of China (Soochow University Law School), which moved from Shanghai to Taipei.
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Chang-Sop Shin (JD ’93), Professor, Korea University College of Law; international trade and international business. Dr. Abdullah Al-Attas (LLM ’98, SJD ’03), Dean, Faculty of Law, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah; Professor Sohn’s last doctoral student; international arbitration.
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Dr. Nilufer Oral (SJD ’12), Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University; Board of IUCN Academy for Environmental Law; advisor to Turkish Foreign Ministry.
71 Dr. Anja Seibert-Fohr (LLM ’00, SJD ’04), Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Law Faculty, Göttingen University; Vice-Chair, U.N. Human Rights Committee.
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Dr. Cecilia Marcela Bailliet (JD/MA ’96), Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo; international law.
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Belva Ann Lockwood (LLB 1875), represented the United States at European peace conferences; first woman to argue before U.S. Supreme Court; twice ran for U.S. President, well before women could vote. Masuji Miyakawa (LLM 1903), first Japanese student admitted to bar in United States; led fight against U.S. discrimination against Japanese. Ernest L. Wilkinson (LLB ’26) successfully represented Ute Indian Nation in claim under Treaty of 1880 for land taken by the United States; became President of Brigham Young University.
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76 Susan Bastress (JD '81) of Squire Patton Boggs was the the first woman to head a law firm in Doha, Qatar. Her colleague, Joseph L. Brand (JD '63), taught comparative law at GW Law and was Vice-Chair of the GW Board of Trustees and Chaired the Center for Justice and Accountability.
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Yasuhiro Hagihara (MCL ’68), Senior Counsel, Squire Patton Boggs, Tokyo; leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer; Director of major Japanese corporation; Lecturer at Keio University; founder, GW Law alumni chapter in Japan. Ira “Ike” Sorkin (JD ’68), Partner, Mintz & Gold; handled major cases as head of the New York Office, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; former Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York.
79 Michael D. Hausfeld (JD ’69), Chair, Hausfeld Global Litigation Solutions; at forefront of international antitrust, human rights, and discrimination litigation.
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Carol Elder Bruce (JD ’74), Partner, K&L Gates; conducts high-profile independent investigations, including of Attorney General Edwin Meese and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.
81 Corinne Ball (JD ’78), Partner, Jones Day; led team on Chrysler Chapter 11 reorganization; at the forefront of reorganization of companies in the United States and Europe.
82 Bruce Sewell (JD ’86), Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Apple.
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David Buchen, (JD ’89), Chief Legal Officer, Actavis PLC. Stanimir Alexandrov (LLM ’92, SJD ’94), Partner, Sidley Austin; coleads firm’s International Arbitration Group; teaches foreign direct investment and dispute settlement at GW Law; was Bulgaria’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ayman A. Khaleq (LLM ’94) heads Morgan Lewis’s Middle East practice in Dubai; taught transactional Islamic finance law at GW Law.
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John R.W.D. Jones QC (LLM ’98), leading international criminal lawyer at Doughty Chambers, who helped draft procedure rules for International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; appeared before many international criminal courts; represented Julian Assange and Saif Al Islam Gadaffi.
87 Dr. Raj Davé (LLM ’03), Partner, Pillsbury; helped found GW Law’s India Initiative to address Indian intellectual property, competition, and corporate law.
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): Jean-Marie Henckaerts (SJD ’94), co-author of the 2005 ICRC study on customary international humanitarian law; Ramin Mahnad (JD ’03); and Heike Niebergall (LLM ‘03). International Court of Justice law clerks: Daniel Fromm (JD ’08), Luke Wilson (JD ’09, LLM ’11), Emily Newton (JD ’11), and Tulio di Giacomo Toledo (LLM ’13). World Trade Organization: Xiaoping Wu (LLM ’99) and Lauro Locks (LLM ’01). International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes: Anneliese Fleckenstein (LLM ’08), Aurélia Antonietti (LLM ’09), Daniela Arguello (LLM ’11), Martina Polasek (LLM ’12), and Peik Mäkelä (LLM ’13).
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U.S. Attorney General Caleb Cushing (1870-71); international law. The Honorable William Beach Lawrence (1872-78), Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of Rhode Island; Professor on the Law of Nations. James C. Welling (1874-93), Professor of Public and Private International Law; co- founder, National Geographic Society.
95 The Honorable John Marshall Harlan (1889-1910), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court; international law.
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96 The Honorable David Brewer (1890-1910), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court; Professor of International Law
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The Honorable John W. Foster (1898-1909), later, U.S. Secretary of State; taught the first class of the School of International Jurisprudence and Diplomacy. Robert M. Hughes (1904-07); admiralty law; helped establish Old Dominion University. Henry St. George Tucker III, GW Law Dean (1904-05); author of Limitations on the Treaty-Making Power under the Constitution of the United States (Little, Brown, 1911).
100 James Brown Scott (1905-06), co-founder, American Society of International Law; member, U.S. delegation to Second Hague Peace Conference.
101 Alfred Nerincx (1906-07), on leave as Chair of Constitutional Law, University of Louvain, Belgium; comparative constitutional law.
102 Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. (1907-08), Undersecretary of State under President Calvin Coolidge; later, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University are named after him.
103 Retired Rear Admiral Charles Herbert Stockton (1910-18), GW
President; President, U.S. Naval War College (1891-93); the Charles H. Stockton Professorship of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College is named in his honor, as is GW Law’s Stockton Hall.
104 William Miller Collier (1918-22), GW President; U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1905-09); U.S. Ambassador to Chile (1921-28).
105 Charles S. Lobinger (1927-30), Professor of Roman and Civil Law;
later, Judge, U.S. Court for China; Judge, Court of First Instance for the Philippine Islands.
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106 Oswald Symister Colclough (1950-67), Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy.
107 Frederick Bernays Wiener (1951-56); argued Reid v. Covert (354
U.S. 1 1957), which held that the U.S. constitution was superior to a treaty.
108 William Thomas Mallison, Jr. (1951-87), first Director,
International and Comparative Law Program; twice the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law, U.S. Naval War College; negotiator, U.S.-Japan Comprehensive Atomic Energy Treaty of 1958.
109 Herbert J. Liebesny (1955-79), taught near-eastern law,
which was likely the earliest Islamic law course given at a U.S. law school; co-editor, Law in the Middle East: Origins and Development of Islamic Law (1955) and The Law of the Near and Middle East: Readings, Cases & Materials (1975).
110 David J. Sharpe (1961-98), co-editor, Cases and Materials on Admiralty.
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John A. Spanogle (1988-2014), co-author of the first case book on international business transactions; member, U.S. delegation to UNCITRAL; delegation chief to Working Group on Payment Systems.
112 Thomas Buergenthal (1989-2000; 2010-15), one
of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz; major figure in international law, including as a Judge, International Court of Justice; President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights; and member, U.N. Truth Commission for El Salvador.
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113 Louis B. Sohn (1991-2006), attendee, San Francisco
conference that led to the creation of the United Nations; Bemis Chair, Harvard Law School; Dean Rusk Chair, University of Georgia.
114 Dinah Shelton (2004-15), President, Inter-American
Commission of Human Rights; recognized for work in remedies for human rights violations, hierarchy of norms in international law, and intersection of human rights and environmental law.
115 Harold Koh (1983-88), former Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, and Dean of Yale Law School; GW Law adjunct professor while an associate at Covington & Burling and then a lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice; now at Yale Law School.
116 JosĂŠ Alvarez (1989-93), former President, American Society of International Law; now at NYU Law School.
117 Michael K. Young (1998-2004), GW Law Dean; now
President, Texas A&M University; taught law of Japan; built ties between GW Law and Supreme Court of Japan, Supreme Court of Korea, and Ministry of Justice of Korea; launched Munich Intellectual Property Law Center.
118 The Honorable Joan Donoghue (2005), Judge, International Court of Justice.
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119 International law: Laura Dickinson, human rights expert
and a Future of War Fellow at the New America Foundation, examines challenges of privatizing foreign affairs.
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Sean D. Murphy has represented the United States and foreign governments before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and other international tribunals. Michael J. Matheson also has appeared as an agent before the ICJ, led efforts to create the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and led efforts to create the U.N. Compensation Commission for Gulf War damage.
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Ralph Steinhardt was counsel on U.S. Supreme Court cases Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell and Sosa v. Alvarez Machain; he is at the forefront of research and advocacy on enforcing human rights.
Bradford R. Clark's writings also examine the role of international law in U.S. courts.
Edward T. Swaine is co-reporter on treaties, American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
120 American Society of International Law: Charles N. Brower,
President; Thomas Buergenthal, Honorary President; Steve Charnovitz, John Crook, Michael Matheson, Sean D. Murphy, and Dinah Shelton, board of editors of the American Journal of International Law; John Crook, Susan L. Karamanian, Sean D. Murphy, and Dinah Shelton, former Vice Presidents.
121 U.N. International Law Commission: Sean D. Murphy,
member and Special Rapporteur on Crimes against Humanity; Michael Matheson, former member and, before joining GW Law, Deputy Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State.
122 Comparative and foreign law: Francesca Bignami,
European law expert, sits on the board of the American Society of Comparative Law and the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Donald Clarke is editor of the Chinese Law Prof blog. Robert J. Cottrol is an expert on slavery and race in the Americas.
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David Fontana, comparative constitutional law scholar, has advised foreign governments on drafting constitutions. Jeffrey Rosen, also a constitutional law scholar, heads the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, where he regularly welcomes foreign judges and scholars.
Renée Lettow Lerner focuses on English legal history and judicial systems from a comparative perspective.
123 Business law: Lisa Fairfax has been nominated to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Karen Brown writes about economic development throughout the world from the tax law perspective and regularly teaches at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Neil H. Buchanan, economist and law professor, lectures around the world on U.S. budgetary policy and its constitutional dimensions, inequality, and generational justice.
Steve Charnovitz is on the boards of the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of Environment & Development, and the World Trade Review.
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The books of Lawrence Cunningham, expert in corporate governance, accounting, and investing, have been translated into 12 languages, and he has taught at four universities abroad; his articles on international financing reporting standards appear in the overseas press. Theresa Gabaldon’s Securities Regulations (co-edited) is used in foreign countries. Susan L. Karamanian, who focuses on the intersection of human rights and investment, also has taught at the Sorbonne and the National Law University of India Bangalore. Thomas Schoenbaum, a leading admiralty scholar, is the author of leading books on the WTO and international business. Arthur Wilmarth, Jr., member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Banking Regulation in the United Kingdom, has published articles analyzing the comparative responses to the 2008 global financial crisis.
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124 National security: Peter Raven-Hansen is co-author of the first casebook on National Security Law and has been counsel on major terrorism cases.
Gregory Maggs, Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, is a member of the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals. The work of Lisa Schenck, retired Army Colonel, is at the forefront of determining whether military or civilian courts should oversee cases of sexual harassment.
125 Cyber arena: Daniel Solove is co-reporter of the American
Law Institute’s Restatement of Information Privacy Principles; his recent work examines privacy from the perspectives of the United States and Europe. Orin Kerr was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; he examines cybercrimes in the context of the global internet.
Paul Schiff Berman and Dawn Nunziato address jurisdictional and other challenges arising from the internet.
126 Global intellectual property: Scott Kieff (on leave) is
Commissioner of the International Trade Commission. Joseph Straus, former Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, co-teaches a biotech patent course with Martin Adelman. Robert Brauneis, an international copyright expert, was recently recognized for his argument that the world’s most popular song, “Happy Birthday,” is not subject to copyright.
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Professors Adelman and Brauneis and Associate Dean John Whealan regularly teach at Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. Michael Abramowicz, who has used economic principles to examine patent law, applies those principles to understand a wide range of business activity. Roger Schechter sits on the advisory board of BNA’s Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Journal. The work of Dmitry Karshtedt, GW Law’s newest faculty member, focuses on damages and causation in patent infringement cases.
127 Government procurement: Chris Yukins supported U.S.
efforts to rewrite the UNCITRAL model procurement law. Professors Yukins, Steven Schooner, and Joshua Schwartz lecture around the world on procurement law. Jessica Tillipman is Senior Editor of the FCPA Blog.
128 Environmental and energy: In 1970, GW Law launched the
first environmental law program at a U.S. law school. Robert Glicksman, who focuses on environmental law, has incorporated sustainable development and human rights principles into his scholarship. Emily Hammond has written for, and participated in, international discussions concerning Smart Grid deployment and regulatory approaches.
Lee Paddock, a member of a number of organizations, co-teaches an annual Energy Law Summer School with Professor Martha Roggenkamp of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Richard Pierce, prolific scholar on energy issues, uses comparative approaches to better understand limiting CO2 emissions.
129 Clinics: The Immigration Clinic, under the direction of Alberto BenÍtez, has enabled individuals fleeing unwanted persecution to start anew in America.
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The International Human Rights Clinic, established by Arturo Carrillo, engages students in an array of human rights matters, with recent work addressing human rights implications of the operations of internet companies such as Facebook, Google, and Mozilla. Joan Meier, who heads the Domestic Violence Project, works with lawyers and officials from around the world engaged in parallel work in their respective countries.
130 New ways of problem solving: John F. Banzhaf III has been at the forefront of the global effort to abolish smoking. His mathematical technique, The Banzhaf Power Index, which explains voting strength based on the ability of the voter to shape an outcome, has been used to explain elections throughout the world.
Eleanor Brown studies immigration and property from a number of angles, including historical and racial. Naomi Cahn writes about gender issues, including those related to post-conflict environments, and the role of children in conflicts. Burlette Carter advised the Chinese National People’s Congress on a proposed trust and estates code. Mary Cheh, a member of the D.C. City Council, spent a sabbatical working at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies in South Africa. Suzanne Jackson has written about mail-order brides as slavery. Having argued 20 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, including Chadha v. INS, Alan Morrison regularly speaks to foreign judges and lawyers about the U.S. legal system. The work of Spencer Overton, an expert on election laws and interim President and CEO of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, is relevant to both U.S. elections and elections in foreign countries. Alfreda Robinson, who is active in the National Bar Association, has traveled to Cuba on three occasions to speak about comparative law. Joan Schaffner applies international law to protect animals. Michael Selmi’s work on disparate impact in the workplace and known indirect discrimination in a number of countries has been of specific interest in Japan and the Netherlands.
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131 William Kovacic, former Chair of the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission, is the first non-United Kingdom national to serve on the U.K. Competition Authority. He is also Director of the Competition Law Center, which engages in an array of activities, including consulting with competition agencies around the world on the design and implementation of competition law.
132 Blake D. Morant was the 2015 president of the
Association of American Law Schools, which plays an influential role in legal education around the world.
133 Jonathan Turley represented U.S. House of Representatives
members against President Barack Obama challenging the Libyan war and represented Navy Petty Officer Daniel King, accused of spying, with charges being dismissed after questions about interrogation methods.
134 The Honorable Charles N. Brower is a former Judge on Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and a leading international arbitrator. Under his guidance, GW Law students assist on major arbitrations.
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135 Courses: The first international law course was offered in the late
1800s. The Intellectual Property Law Program was launched as a Master's in Patent Law degree in 1895. Graduates of the IP Program have patented innovations such as the Wright Brothers’ airplane, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, and the Fermi/Szilard nuclear reactor. In the early 1960s, the first Government Procurement Law Program in the U.S. was established, which includes a strong focus on international and comparative procurement standards.
136 In the 1980s, GW Law educated more than 20 Afghan lawyers
under a USAID grant, including The Honorable Nematullah Shahrani, Vice President and Chair, Constitutional Commission, and The Honorable Abdul Jabar Sabet, Attorney General.
137 In 1994, GW Law joined University of Oxford to launch the International Human Rights Law Summer Program, which has educated more than 1,500 students.
138 In 2003, with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the University of Augsburg, and Technische Universität München, GW Law established the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC). Approximately 300 students have obtained LLM degrees at MIPLC. Robert Brauneis was one of the founders of the program. The Honorable Randall R. Rader has taught at MIPLC since its founding.
139 The George Washington International Law Review, founded in 1966, has published articles from leaders in international and comparative law.
140 GW Law serves as the designated U.S. institution for International
Law in Domestic Courts, established by Oxford University Press in 2007, which provides online commentary on domestic judicial decisions involving international law issues from around the world.
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141 In 2006, GW Law linked up with Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, to help establish the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, one of India’s premier law schools. Benefactor Vinod Gupta has supported this relationship. The relationship is part of GW Law's outreach to India, started by Dean Frederick M. Lawrence.
142 For more than 25 years, GW Law has co-hosted , with the Internal Revenue Service, an annual international tax conference.
143 GW Law was co-host of the first World Congress of the Academy of Comparative Law (2010) held in the United States.
144 In 2011, under a grant from Microsoft Corp., GW Law launched a lecture series on Global Internet Freedom and Human Rights. Professor Dawn Nunziato helps run the program.
145 In 2012, GW Law was co-host, with the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, of the first meeting between the U.S. Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
146 Constitutional law scholars gather annually at GW Law to assess the role of comparative principles in better understanding the world’s constitutions.
147 The annual Potomac Foreign Relations Roundtable gathers experts drawn from academia, government, and the NGO community.
148 International Moot Courts: Teams in 1992, 2005, 2007, and 2010 won the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, which serves as a record for the number of victories. Teams have twice won the Gujarat National Law University Moot Court Competition in Gujarat, India (2010 and 2011), and in 2011, a GW Law team won the K.K. Luthra Competition in New Delhi.
149 The Jacob Burns Law Library, directed by Associate Dean
Scott Pagel, has one of the largest U.S. collections of Hugo Grotius’s work, including his poetry, religious writings, and more than 100 editions of De Iure Belli ac Pacis, including the very rare 1625 first edition. Under the Cummins Grant, scholars have been supported as they use the library’s French Collection.
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150 More than 300 foreign students have earned LLM degrees
from GW Law, under the Thomas Buergenthal Scholarship, the Benjamin Gupta Scholarship, and the Momsen Scholarship, as well as the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship. In 2016-17, the Licks Attorneys LLM Scholarship will be offered. GW Law Lobingier Professor Emeritus Thomas Buergenthal donated proceeds from his Gruber Foundation Justice Prize to support the Thomas Buergenthal Scholarships. The Benjamin Gupta Scholarship was established by Vinod Gupta in memory of his son, Benjamin, a JD student who died in his final year at GW Law. The Momsen Scholarship was established by the law firm Momsen, Leonardos & Cia in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the estate of Richard P. Momsen (LLB 1912). As well as being a prominent lawyer, Mr. Momsen helped found the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil.
The Licks Attorneys LLM Scholarship has been established by the law firm of Licks Attorneys in Rio de Janeiro. Its principal, Otto Licks (LLM ’93, international law; LLM ’94, intellectual property law), is recognized as one of Brazil’s leading intellectual property lawyers.
We are grateful to the following for their help and insights in preparing 150 Ways: Professor Emeritus Jerome Barron GW Law
Shehernaz Joshi Director, Graduate Programs GW Law
Professor Robert Brauneis GW Law
Professor Xiang Longwan Director, Tokyo Trial Research Center Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Deané Fenstermaker Director of Development GW Law
Associate Dean Scott Pagel GW Law
Professor Emeritus Jack Friedenthal GW Law
Professor Steven Schooner GW Law
Professor Haider Hamoudi University of Pittsburgh Law School
Professor Shana Tabak Georgia State University College of Law
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HISTORY IN THE MAKING
1865-1939
1899
Law classes move to the Columbian Building at 1420 H Street, NW.
1865
The Department of Law is established, offering a two-year law program with classes in the Old Trinity Episcopal Church.
1895
1870
National University Law School opens.
1860
1870
Walter S. Cox becomes first dean of the law school.
1880
1890
1895
1873
Bachelor’s degree in law (LLB) is extended from two years to three.
Lydia S. Hall and Belva Lockwood become the first female graduates of National University Law School.
1867
1891
The first law class—with 60 students—graduates.
The Patent Law Program begins.
1884
Samuel Laing Williams is the first African-American to earn a law degree from GW. The university later bars black students.
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1934
1910
The Student Bar Association forms.
The school moves to rented quarters in the Masonic Temple (now the National Museum of Women in the Arts).
1932
The George Washington Law Review launches.
1916
Marion Clark becomes the first woman to receive the LLB degree from GW Law.
1924
Stockton Hall is built for GW Law.
1900
1910
1920
1914
The Department of Law is renamed the Law School.
1930
1925
The law school relocates to GW’s campus.
1904
Morning classes start.
1924 1902
Emma Reba Bailey is the first woman to receive a Master of Laws degree.
William C. Van Vleck named dean of the law school (longest serving dean).
1936 1900
Female students are accepted into the Master of Laws program.
The law school becomes a graduate school offering a JD.
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1940-2015
1966 1963
Elyce Zenoff becomes the first woman to join the tenuretrack faculty.
1940
1970
1960
The Doctor of Juridical Science degree is offered.
Studies in Law and Economic Development (later the George Washington International Law Review) is founded.
Professor Ralph C. Nash, Jr. joins the faculty and, with John Cibinic, Jr. (joins in 1962) establishes what ultimately becomes the nation’s first Government Procurement Law Program.
Community Legal Clinics start operation.
1954
National University Law School and GW merge. The university ends its policy barring black students. 1940
1950
1960
1970
1954
Leah Brook McCartney is believed to be the first African-American female graduate of the law school.
1970
1959
Environmental Law Program is introduced.
The school is reestablished as the National Law Center.
1946
Graduates from non-U.S. schools are accepted into certain programs.
1965
International and Comparative Law Program begins.
1967
Phase 1 of Jacob Burns Law Library is completed.
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1977
James Phillip Chandler becomes the first African-American to join the tenuretrack faculty.
1996 1994
GW Law-Oxford International Human Rights Law Summer Program begins.
The National Law Center officially renamed The George Washington University Law School.
Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-LEAF) is launched. The LLM in business and finance law is launched.
1994
2006
2010
Public Contract Law Journal moves to GW.
AIPLA Quarterly Journal moves to GW.
1980
2009
1990
George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law begins.
2000
2010
2005
James F. Humphreys Complex Litigation Center is founded.
1984
Lerner Hall is completed, as is Phase 2 of the Jacob Burns Law Library.
2003
Munich Intellectual Property Law Center opens. The law school occupies E Building, Stuart Hall, and parts of Lisner Hall following renovations.
2013
Renovations of the Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics are finished. The Law Learning Center is completed.
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