The Dean Rusk Center 25th Anniversary Lecture Series

This four-lecture series in the fall of 2002 was organized to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Dean Rusk Center and to pay tribute to Professor Dean Rusk, who provided the inspiration for the Center's creation and its continuing role at the Law School and the University.

The four distinguished lecturers spoke on subjects which were important to Professor Rusk—relations between Europe and the United States, the creation of a new Europe, the law of human rights, and the work of the United Nations. The texts of the lectures have been published in the Occasional Papers series of the Center.

Eric Stein

University of Michigan School of Law
Democracy Beyond Nation State: World Trade Organization and European Union
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom

Hessel E. Yntema Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, Eric Stein holds Doctor of Law degrees from the University of Michigan and Charles University, Prague, and Honorary Doctor of Law degrees from both Free Universities of Brussels and from the West-Bohemian University in Pilsen, Czech Republic. He served in the U.S. Department of State and was adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. General Assembly and to the U.S. representatives at the U.N. Security Council and the International Court of Justice. He has taught and lectured widely at American, European, and Asian universities and at the Hague Academy of International Law. Professor Stein is former Honorary Vice President and current Counselor of the American Society of International Law.

Louis Henkin

Columbia University School of Law
Constitutional Rights & Human Rights
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom

At Columbia University, Professor Louis Henkin is University Professor Emeritus, chair of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, and director of the Law School's new Human Rights Institute. Professor Henkin previously held chairs in Constitutional Law and in International Law and Diplomacy. He was the Chief Reporter of the Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States (1979-87), Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law (1978-84), and president of the American Society of International Law (1992-94).

Abiodun Williams

Director, Strategic Planning, Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations
The United Nations and Peacebuilding
Thursday, October 17, 2002
Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall

Director of Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Abiodun Williams served in three peace-keeping operations as Special Assistant to the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2000), Special Assistant to the Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti (1998-2000), and Political and Humanitarian Affairs Adviser to the U.N. Preventive Deployment Force in Macedonia (1994-98). He was Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Assistant Professor of International Relations and 1988-94 graduate program academic adviser, teaching courses in International Organization, Theory and Practice of International Relations, and Honours Seminar on Power and Justice in the International System.

Manuel Medina Ortega

Member, European Parliament
The European Union and the United States: Political Cleavages and the Use of Law
Monday, October 28, 2002
Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom

Dr. Manuel Medina Ortega has been one of Spain's members of the European Parliament for the Group of the Party of European Socialists for many years. He is a 1999-2004 term member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market and was its coordinator during the 1994-99 term. He currently is on the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice, and Home Affairs. He serves as a member of the delegation for relations with South American countries and MERCOSUR. Dr. Medina received his law degrees at La Laguna, Columbia (LL.M.), and Madrid (Ph.D.). He holds a chair and teaches at the University of La Laguna and at Complutense University, Madrid.