Professors Curtis Bradley and Madeline Morris appointed to Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law
Duke Law Professors Curtis Bradley and Madeline Morris have been appointed to the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law.
The Advisory Committee on International Law brings together professors, practitioners, and policymakers who are expert in international law to provide timely and relevant advice on significant issues of international law to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and her legal adviser.
The Advisory Committee typically meets twice a year at the State Department, and will next meet early in 2007.
A specialist in international law and U.S. foreign relations law, Bradley, Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law, 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 concerning both international law and U.S. foreign relations law and has co-authored two-casebooks, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (with Jack Goldsmith), and International Law (with Barry Carter and Phillip Trimble). He 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, United States Department of Defense, 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; has served
as advisor on justice to the president of Rwanda, as 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
consultant and adjunct faculty member of the U.S. Naval Justice School. 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 public international law, international human rights, international criminal law, and international criminal jurisdiction.
For more information contact Frances Presma at (919) 613-7248 or presma@law.duke.edu.