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The Role of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State

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In October 1988 the American Branch of the International Law Association and the American Society of International Law established a Joint Committee on the Role of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State. The Committee’s charge was to examine the role of the Legal Adviser in encouraging respect for international law in the U.S. government decisionmaking process, and to make suggestions and recommendations to enhance the Legal Adviser’s effectiveness in this regard. The thirty-four members of the Committee included nine former Legal Advisers, a former President’s counsel, other past and present U.S. government officials, academics and private attorneys. Collectively, the Committee reflected broad experience and a variety of perspectives as regards issues of U.S. foreign policy and international law. (The members of the Committee are listed in footnote 1.)

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 358 - 371
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1991

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1 The members of the Committee were as follows: Professor Oscar Schachter (Chairman), Professor Richard B. Bilder (Rapporteur), John Lawrence Hargrove (Ex Officio), Professor Cynthia C. Lichtenstein (Ex Officio), Professor Louis B. Sohn (Ex Officio), Charles Brower, Professor Goler Butcher, Professor Abram Chayes, Lloyd Cutler, Professor Lori Damrosch, Professor Thomas M. Franck, Professor Michael Glennon, Professor Edward Gordon, Ernest A. Gross, Herbert J. Hansell, Rita E. Hauser, Professor Louis Henkin, Professor Keith Highet, Monroe Leigh, Professor Harold G. Maier, Leonard Meeker, Professor John Norton Moore, Roberts B. Owen, Professor Bernard H. Oxman, Professor Jane Picker, Davis Robinson, Robert Rosenstock, Arthur W. Rovine, Professor Eugene Rostow, Professor Alfred P. Rubin, Judge Stanley Sporkin, John R. Stevenson, Robert Turner and Robert von Mehren. The roster of the Committee constituted Appendix A to the report.

The members of the Advisory Group were Professor Rosalyn Higgins, Leonard Legault, Professor Ronald St. John Macdonald, John H. McNeill, Elliot Richardson, Professor Dean Rusk, Sir Ian Sinclair, Sir Francis Vallat and Cyrus Vance. The membership of the Advisory Group constituted Appendix B to the report.