ADVISORY BOARD PILPG is fortunate to be able to call upon eminent experts in international law and international relations who serve as members of PILPG's Advisory Board. The Advisory Board includes a number of former legal advisors from the United States and Canadian foreign ministries as well as a number of distinguished academics with a significant involvement in matter of international law and policy. Our Advisory Board includes the following members: Advisory Board Chair: Justice Richard J. Goldstone Richard J. Goldstone, 1959 B.A., 1962 LL.B. (Wits), practiced as an Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. In 1980, he was made Judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court. In 1989, he was appointed Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. From July 1994 to October 2003, he was a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. In the spring of 2005, he was the Henry Shattuck Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 15 August 1994 to September 1996, he served as the Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. From August 1999 until December 2001, he was the chairperson of the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo that was established by Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson. In December 2001, he was appointed as the co-chairperson of the International Task Force on Terrorism that was established by the International Bar Association. He is presently the co-chairperson of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. From 1999 to 2003, he served as a member of the International Group of Advisers of the International Committee of the Red Cross. He is presently a member of the committee, chaired by Paul A. Volcker, appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to investigate allegations regarding the Iraq Oil for Food Program. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple , London , an Honorary Fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Member of the Association of the Bar of New York. He is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on the boards of Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights and the Institute for Justice in Transition. Advisory Board Members: Professor John Barton John Barton has devoted his academic career to the examination of questions at the intersection of science and the law. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor rarely bestowed upon a law professor, Professor Barton has focused his scholarship on international law concerns ranging from national defense to issues surrounding the distribution of intellectual property across the developed and undeveloped world. His current work involves the study of the transfer of technologies, including vaccines and steel, between scientifically sophisticated and developing nations, and the development of a political theory of international organization and globalization. Professor Barton has chaired or been a member of more than a dozen academic and international advisory commissions, most recently heading up the International Commission on Intellectual Property Rights. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969, Professor Barton was an engineer with Sylvania Electronic Defense Laboratories. Professor David M. Crane Former Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone Professor Crane was appointed to the Senior Executive Service of the United States in 1997. Mr. Crane has held numerous key managerial positions during his three decades in the federal government of the United States, including Senior Inspector General, Department of Defense, Assistant General Counsel of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Waldemar A. Solf Professor of International Law at the United States Army Judge Advocate Generals School. In 2002, he was appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, with the rank of Undersecretary General. In 2006 he was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Practice at Syracuse University College of Law. He has received several awards and honors including the Intelligence Community Gold Seal Medallion, the Department of Defense/DoDIG Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit. Professon Crane received a George Arents Pioneer Medal in June 2006 from Syracuse University. In 2005, he was awarded the Medal of Merit from Ohio University and the Distinguished Service Award from Syracuse University College of Law for his work in West Africa. Prior to his departure from West Africa, Professor Crane was made a Paramount Chief by the Civil Society Organizations of Sierra Leone. Mr. Maurice Copithorne After being called to the BC Bar in 1956, Copithorne joined the Canadian Foreign Service. From 1975 to 1979 he served as Legal Advisor and Director General of Legal Affairs. From 1979 to 1982 he served as Canadian Ambassador to Austria and UN Agencies in Vienna, which also included the Chairmanship of the International Atomic Energy Board of Governors from 1980 to 1981. He served as Assistant Under Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific from 1982 to 1983, and Canadian Commissioner to Hong Kong from 1983 to 1986. Retiring in 1986, he took a visiting professorship with the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law, teaching Public International Law, where he continues to teach today. He has held a variety of external appointments including United Nations Special Representative on the Human Rights Situation in Iran from 1995 to 2002 and has been active in a variety of other professional and community groups including the UBC International House Advisory Board. He was a fellow at the Harvard Centre for International Affairs from 1974 to 1975. He has received several awards and honors including being appointed Queen's Counsel in 1981, the Great Trekker Award from the UBC Alma Mater Society in 1997, appointed to the Certified Management Accountants Society of British Columbia in 1998, and the Renata Shearer Award for "outstanding contributions to human rights" in 2000. He received an honorary degree from UBC in 2003. Professor Malcolm Grant Professor Malcolm Grant is a barrister, an environmental lawyer, academic and public servant. He took up the post of President and Provost – the principal academic and administrative officer of UCL – on 1 August 2003. Born in New Zealand in 1947, Professor Grant was awarded the LLB (1970), LLM (1973) and LLD (1986) by the University of Otago , New Zealand . He was a Lecturer in Law at Southampton University (1982–1986), and has been Visiting Professor at the School of Law and Centre for Growth Management, University of Florida (1991) and Senior Research Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Boston (1991). He was elected an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (2000). Professor Grant’s professional qualifications include: Barrister and Solicitor, New Zealand (1969–); Honorary Member, Royal Town Planning Institute (1993–) and Member of Council (1998–2001); Honorary Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (1995–), Member of Governing Council (1997–2001) and Member of International Governing Council (2001–); Barrister, Middle Temple (1998–); and Honorary Life Member, New Zealand Resource Management Law Association (1999). He was elected a Bencher of Middle Temple in 2004. Professor Grant was awarded the CBE in 2003 for services to planning law and local government. He was appointed Officier dans l'Ordre de Mérite by the French Government in 2004. He was Chair of the Agriculture & Environment Biotechnology Commission (2000–2005), leading the provision of strategic advice to the government on the implications of biotechnology, including genetic modification, for agriculture and the environment. He was also Chair of the UK Independent Steering Board for the Public Debate on GM (2002–2003). He is currently Chair of The Russell Group of UK research universities (2006–) and Chair of the Standards Committee of the Greater London Authority, and has been Chair of the Association of London Government’s Independent Panel on the Remuneration of Councillors in London (1998–2005). He served two terms of appointment as Chair of the Local Government Commission for England (1996–2001), having been originally appointed a member of the commission from 1992. Professor Grant’s international activities have included consultancy: for the European Commission, on environmental liability; for UNESCO, on an environmental management plan for the protection of the archaeological remains of Angkor Area, Cambodia; for the Singapore government for its planning law reforms in 1998; and for the Malaysian government, on new legislation for the protection of historic buildings. Professor Grant has researched and published widely in areas including: planning and environmental law; regulation of biotechnology; local government structures, finance and political management; central–local government relations; human rights, property and participation; and environmental dispute resolution. Zorica Maric Zorica Maric-Djordjevic was until recently based in Washington, DC as Head of the Republic of Montenegro's Trade Mission to the United States. In her nine years at the Mission, Ms. Maric-Djordjevic oversaw the negotiation of political, economic, defense, trade, and foreign assistance agreements between the United States and Montenegro. As her country's diplomatic liaison to Washington, Ms. Maric-Djordjevic coordinated lobbying efforts for the U.S. government's recognition of Montenegrin independence in June 2006. Prior to this post, she was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. She also previously held high level positions in the Offices of the Montenegro's President and Prime Minister, and co-led numerous reforms and diplomatic initiatives. She began her public service career at the Montenegrin Central Bank. Ms. Maric-Djordjevic has authored many articles on international finance and international political economy. She holds and MS in Economics/MBA from the European Institute in Amsterdam and a BA in Economics from the University of Podgorica. Ms Maric-Djordjevic has been stationed in Sierra Leone - Freetown and Bo - since April 2007 as a member of international delegation, composed of experienced political and civic leadres, conducting observation of the first democratic elections in this country, under umbrela of NDI/DIFID. Professor Jiri Toman JUDr, Charles University, Prague Professor Toman’s prior appointments include teaching at the School of Economics and School of Law at Charles University in Prague . From 1969 until June 1998, he was director of the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva , the research and training center of the International Red Cross. He also taught at the University of Geneva and was a visiting professor at Santa Clara University , George Washington University , and Université de Franche-Compte in Besançon. His areas of specialization include the legal aspects of war, humanitarian law, international organizations, and a seminar in international human rights, international law. Professor Toman is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and is a member of several international associations. Since 1994, he has been a foreign member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Mr. Edwin Williamson Upon his resignation as the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State in January 1993, Mr. Williamson rejoined Sullivan & Cromwell's Washington, D.C. Office. He originally joined the Firm in 1964 after graduating from New York University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He became a partner of the Firm in 1971, moved to its London office in 1976, returned to its New York office in 1979, and moved to its Washington, D.C. Office in 1988. At Sullivan & Cromwell, Mr. Williamson has engaged in a broad and wide-ranging domestic and international financing and transactions practice. He is the co-author of the Firm's comprehensive memorandum on U.S. economic sanctions and also advises on issues arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Dean Louis W. Goodman Louis Goodman has been Professor and Dean of the School of International Service since 1986 and in 1992 served as the President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. Prior to assuming this position, he directed the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the Social Science Research Council and served on the faculty of Yale University ’s Sociology Department. The author of numerous books and articles, Dr. Goodman’s current research focuses on democracy-building and civilian control of the armed forces in Latin America . His Small Nations, Giant Firms: Capital Allocation Decisions in Transnational Corporations (Holmes and Meier: 1987) discusses the determinants of capital allocation decisions in transnational corporation and the impact of transnational corporations on national development. The Military and Democracy in Latin America (D.C. Heath-Lexington: 1990) and Lessons from the Venezuelan Experience (Johns Hopkins: 1995) are volumes he has co-edited which focus on the role of the military in political and economic development. His publications also include works on international affairs education including International Affairs Education on the Eve of the 21st Century (APSIA, 1994). |
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