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Three Duke Law Professors Appointed to Secretary of State's Advisory Committees

Curtis Bradley, Madeline Morris and Donald Horowitz to serve on two committees

 

 Duke law professors Curtis Bradley and Madeline Morris have been appointed to the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law, and law professor Donald Horowitz has been appointed to the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion.

 

The Advisory Committee on International Law brings together professors, practitioners and policymakers to provide advice on significant issues of international law to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and her legal adviser. The committee typically meets twice a year at the State Department, and will next meet in early 2007.

 

 

The Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, which held its inaugural meeting on Nov. 6 in Washington, D.C., includes 15 academics and leaders of institutions and organizations who work globally in electoral system reform, constitution-building and the promotion of human rights and civil society, among other areas. Rice established the committee to provide her and the administrator of the Agency for International Development (USAID) with advice on issues related to democracy promotion in formulating and implementing foreign policy and foreign assistance.

 

Bradley, the Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law, is a specialist in international law and U.S. foreign relations law. He joined the Duke faculty in 2005 after teaching at the University of Virginia and University of Colorado law schools. In 2004, he served as counselor on international law in the Legal Adviser's Office of the U.S. State Department. He has written numerous articles and co-authored two casebooks concerning both international law and U.S. foreign relations law, and is currently working on a book concerning international law in the U.S. legal system.

 

 

Bradley is the director of Duke Law School's new Center for International and Comparative Law.

 

Morris is an expert in public international law and, in particular, international criminal law and international criminal jurisdiction. She currently serves as adviser to the chief defense counsel for the detainees at Guantanamo in their proceedings before U.S. military commissions, and is director of Duke Law School's Guantanamo Defense Clinic.

 

Morris has served as senior legal counsel, Office of the Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone; has provided consultation to the U.S. State Department, Office of War Crimes Issues; and has served as advisor on justice to the president of Rwanda. She is a member of the advisory board of the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative, and has published widely in the areas of international criminal law and human rights.

 

Horowitz, the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, has written extensively on the problems of divided societies and issues related to constitution building. His books include "The Deadly Ethnic Riot" (2001), "Ethnic Groups in Conflict" (1985; 2d ed. 2000), and "A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society" (1991). He also has published an extensive study of Islamic law and the theory of legal change. He has consulted widely on institutions and policies that might be adopted to promote democracy and reduce ethnic strife in such areas as Russia, Romania, Nigeria, Tatarstan, Fiji and Northern Ireland.

 

 

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