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Blaine Sloan Lecture on International Law

The Blaine Sloan Lecture on International Law honors F. Blaine Sloan for developing the international law studies program at Pace. A member of the United Nations Legal Office for three decades and Director of the General Legal Division, Professor Sloan has contributed significantly to the development of private and public international law. He represented the Secretary General at the 1978 UN Conference on the Carriage of Goods by Sea; at the sessions from 1969–1978 of the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); and at the 1966–1978 sessions of the Legal Sub-Committee on the Peaceful uses of Outer Space. His UN service involved him in the organization’s work on Vietnam, relief for Palestinian refugees, peacekeeping in the Middle East, the UN Commission on Korea, and as Legal Advisor to Security Council sessions in Africa and Latin America.

Past Lectures

Jorge Islas Lopez, Consul General of Mexico in New York

Jorge Islas López

Consul General of Mexico in New York
February 1, 2023
"The Consular Duty and the Protection of Human Rights in New York"

Sarah Cleveland, Professor at Columbia Law School

Professor Sarah Cleveland

Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, Columbia Law School
April 5, 2019
"Human Rights Productivity"

Richard Ashby Wilson, Gladstein Chair and Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Connecticut School of Law

Professor Richard Ashby Wilson

Gladstein Chair and Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
April 30, 2018
"Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes"

Dr. Boris Kozolchyk, President and Executive Director, National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade

Dr. Boris Kozolchyk

President and Executive Director, National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade
April 1, 2016
"Cuba & Iran: A Look at Global Trade and Development"

Jens David Ohlin, Professor at Cornell Law School

Professor Jens David Ohlin

Cornell Law School
April 13, 2015
"The Assault on International Law"

Donald Francis Donovan, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP

Donald Francis Donovan

Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
October 29, 2014
"The Advocate in the Transnational Justice System"

Ibrahim Gambari, Joint Special Representative African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)

Professor Ibrahim Gambari

Joint Special Representative African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)
October 13, 2012
"Making Peace in Darfur (Sudan): Stubborn Reality and the Audacity of Hope"

Richard Goldstone, Constitutional Court of South Africa

Justice Richard Goldstone

Constitutional Court of South Africa
September 15, 2011
"The Developing Global Rule of Law"

The Honorable Michael Kirby, Australian Jurist and Academic

The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG

October 4, 2010
"The Use of Foreign Judicial Authority…Why Justice Scalia is Wrong."

  • 2009

    Scott Horton
    Contributing Editor, Harper's Magazine
    "After Gitmo: Obama Grapples with Preventive Detention"

    2007

    Mark D. Welton, PhD (Lt. Col., Ret.)
    Professor of Law, United States Military Academy, West Point
    "Islam, the West, and the Rule of Law"

    2006

    José E. Alvarez
    Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University School of Law
    "The Promise and Perils of International Organizations"

    2005

    Philippe Kirsch
    President, International Criminal Court (ICC); and Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Division
    "The International Criminal Court and the Enforcement of International Justice"

    2004

    Barbara Stark
    Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law
    "Women and Globalization: A World of Change"

    2003

    Michael Greenhalgh Bridge
    Professor of Commercial Law and Dean of the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL)
    "Uniformity and the Law of International Sale"

    2002

    George J. Annas
    Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
    Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
    Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences, Boston University School of Medicine
    Founder and first Director, Boston University's Law, Medicine, and Ethics Program
    "Human Rights and Health in a World of Inequality"

    2001

    Harold G. Maier
    David Daniels Allen Professor of Law Emeritus, Vanderbilt University Law School
    "The Cuban Democracy Act: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?"

    2000

    M. Cherif Bassiouni
    President Emeritus, International Human Rights Law Institute; and Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
    President, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC), Siracusa, Italy
    "International Humanitarian Law"

    1999

    David J. Scheffer
    Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law; and Director of the Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University
    First U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (1997–2001)
    "War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity"

    1998

    W. Ramsey Clark
    Sixty-Sixth Attorney General of the United States
    "The Legality and the Effects of the United Nations Sanctions against Iraq"

    1997

    Benjamin B. Ferencz
    Chief Prosecutor for the United States Army, Einsatzgruppen Trial of the 'Subsequent Nuremberg Trials' at Nuremberg, Germany
    Adjunct Professor of International Law (1985-1996), Pace University School of Law
    "International Criminal Courts: The Legacy of Nuremberg"

    1996

    Ronald St. John Macdonald, CC, QC
    Founding President, Canadian Council on International Law
    Judge, European Court of Human Rights
    Solidarity in International Public Law

    1995

    Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC, FBA
    Chichele Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford; and Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
    "The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes in Practice"

    1994

    David O'Keeffe
    Emeritus Professor of European Law, University of London (UCL)
    "The Constitutionalization of Europe and Legal Issues of the Maastricht Treaty"

    1993

    Stephen M. Schwebel
    Judge, International Court of Justice (President from 1997–2000)
    "The Performance and Prospects for the International Court of Justice"

    1993

    Shoshana Netanyahu
    Justice, Supreme Court of Israel
    "The Supreme Court of Israel: A Safeguard of The Rule of Law"

    1992

    W. Michael Reisman
    Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law, Yale Law School; Chairman, Hague Arbitration Tribunal, Bank for International Settlements
    International Election Observation

    1991

    Louis Henkin
    University Professor Emeritus and Special Service Professor, Columbia Law School; and chairman, Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights; former president, American Society of International Law
    "Congress, the President, and the United Nations"

    1990

    John N. Hazard
    Nash Professor Emeritus of Law, Columbia Law School;
    President, International Academy of Comparative Law; President, American Foreign Law Association and of the American Branch of the International Law Association; Former president of the International Association of Legal Sciences
    "New Thinking in Soviet Approaches to International Politics and Law"

    1989

    Oscar Schachter
    Hamilton Fish Professor Emeritus of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia Law School; Advisor, UN Commission on Transnational Corporations
    "Just War and Human Rights"

    1988

    F. Blaine Sloan
    Professor Emeritus of International Law and Organization, Pace Law School
    "The United Nations Charter as a Constitution"