June 24, 2004
Speaker Biographies
John R. Bolton has been serving as under secretary of arms control and international security since 2001. Before his appointment, Secretary Bolton was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute. Secretary Bolton held a number of posts in both the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. From 1989 to1993, he served as assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the Department of State and as assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice from 1985 to 1989. Secretary Bolton is also an attorney. In addition to other law work, from 1993 through 1999 he was a partner in the law firm of Lerner, Reed, Bolton & McManus.
Christopher DeMuth has been the president of AEI since 1986. He is the coeditor of The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (1995). His writings on government regulation and other subjects have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, and the Yale Journal on Regulation.
Lee Feinstein is deputy director of studies and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of expertise include nonproliferation, the United Nations, and international law. His recent work includes "A Duty to Prevent" with Anne-Marie Slaughter in the January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs, on the need to develop new rules to prevent authoritarian governments from acquiring Weapons of Mass Destruction. Mr. Feinstein codirects a roundtable on global governance with the American Society of International Law and directed the 2002 independent task force on Enhancing U.S. Relations with the UN. He served in senior positions at the Departments of Defense and State from 1994 to 2001, including as principal deputy director of the Policy Planning Staff under Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York and Washington, D.C.
Madeline Morris is a professor of law at Duke University and director of the Duke/Geneva Institute in Transnational Law. She has published widely in the field of international criminal law. Ms. Morris currently serves as adviser to the prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and directs the Duke Legal Clinic, which provides legal support to that court. She has provided consultation to the U.S. State Department and the Office of War Crimes Issues and served as an adviser on justice to the president of Rwanda; as a special consultant to the secretary of the U.S. Army; as co-convenor of the Inter-African Cooperation on Truth and Justice program; and as a consultant and adjunct faculty member of the U.S. Naval Justice School. Ms. Morris is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association, the Central and East European Law Initiative, and the Board of Advisers of the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security at Duke University. She teaches public international law, international human rights, and international criminal law.
Eric Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is author of (with Jack Goldsmith) A Theory of International Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2004) and Law and Social Norms (Harvard University Press, 2000) and editor of Chicago Lectures in Law and Economics (Foundation Press, 2000) and (with Matthew Adler) Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives (University of Chicago Press, 2001). He is also an editor of the Journal of Legal Studies. He has published articles on bankruptcy law, contract law, international law, cost-benefit analysis, constitutional law, and administrative law and has taught courses on international law, contracts, employment law, bankruptcy law, secured transactions, and game theory and the law. His current research focuses on international law, including the laws of war, international adjudication, and war crimes trials.
Jeremy Rabkin is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He teaches courses on international law and American constitutional history at Cornell University, where he is a professor in the Department of Government. He is the author of Why Sovereignty Matters (1998), The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome American Independence (AEI Press, 2004), and his upcoming book Law without Nations: Why Constitutional Government requires Sovereign States will be released next year. His scholarly work has appeared in journals of law and political theory, and his essays have appeared in such publications as The Weekly Standard, The National Interest, and National Review. He has lectured on sovereignty and international law in London, Canberra, Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, and numerous forums in the United States. He has testified before both houses of Congress.
Stephen Rademaker serves as assistant secretary of state for arms control and was chief counsel to the Select Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he spearheaded the drafting of legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security. Secretary Rademaker held a number of positions on the staff of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives. While serving on the Committee on International Relations, he dealt extensively with issues such as arms control, nonproliferation, foreign assistance, international law, the deployment of U.S. armed forces abroad, NATO enlargement, the reorganization of foreign affairs agencies and the promotion of democracy and human rights. Secretary Rademaker held a joint appointment as associate counsel to the president in the Office of Counsel and as deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council from 1989 to 1992.
David Rivkin is a partner in the Washington office of Baker & Hostetler LLP, a visiting fellow at the Nixon Center, and a member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (an expert body, supporting the UN Human Rights Commission). He specializes in regulatory and litigation work, with a particular emphasis on constitutional and public policy issues. Before to returning to the private sector, Mr. Rivkin served in a variety of legal and policy positions in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, including stints at the White House Counsel's office and the Departments of Justice and Energy. Mr. Rivkin is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a prolific writer and has published numerous papers, articles, book reviews, and book chapters on a variety of international, legal, constitutional, defense, arms control, foreign policy, environmental, and energy issues for various newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, National Review, and the Harvard Journal of Law & Policy. In particular, Mr. Rivkin has written widely about various aspects of the international law of armed conflict, including jus in bello, treatment of unlawful combatants, and jus ad bellum-related matters.
Gabor Rona has been a legal advisor in the ICRC Legal Division for nearly five years. His duties include negotiation of the ICRC's diplomatic privilege and immunity agreements with the various countries in which the ICRC works to provide protection and assistance to victims of armed conflict; analysis and promotion of the aspects of laws of war that address criminal responsibility; teaching and promotion of the laws of armed conflict to governmental, academic, and private audiences; and analyzing the application of the laws of armed conflict to terrorist acts and counterterrorist action. Mr. Rona has recently written articles appearing in the Fletcher Forum on World Affairs and in the Financial Times on the role of the laws of armed conflict in the so-called “Global War on Terror.” He was a partner in a small civil and criminal litigation firm in Vermont for fifteen years, before moving to the ICRC in Geneva.
Ruth Wedgwood is the Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and director of the International Law and Organization Program of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Previously, she was the Charles Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College. She has served on the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law and as director of studies at the Hague Academy of International Law. She is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, was a member of the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security in the Twenty-first Century, and is the special representative to the UN secretary-general for Children and Armed Conflict. Ms. Wedgwood is also the editor of After Dayton: Lessons of the Bosnian Peace Process (1999) and coauthor of Toward an International Criminal Court? (1999).
John Yoo is a visiting scholar at AEI and a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he focused on foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. He is a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago. Mr. Yoo has published articles on foreign affairs, national security, and constitutional law in a number of the nation's leading law journals, and he is the author of War, Peace, and the Constitution, which will be published next year by the University of Chicago Press.
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