The School of Law’s Tyrrell Williams Lecture will be delivered by His Excellency Thomas Buergenthal, JD, the U.S. judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague. The lecture, “The International Judicial System: Its Growing Influence,” will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 8, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Buergenthal’s legal career spans five decades and includes work as a judge, teacher, scholar and advocate.
Before joining the ICJ in 2000, Buergenthal served as judge and president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as well as the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank.
His numerous professional affiliations include service on the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador, United Nations Human Rights Committee, Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, among others.
One of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, Buergenthal emigrated from Germany to the United States at age 17. His autobiography, A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, chronicles his extraordinary resiliency in the Nazi camps until his liberation at age 11.
Buergenthal’s academic career includes service as dean and professor of international law at American University and on the law faculties of a number of law schools around the country. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including International Human Rights in a Nutshell and Public International Law in a Nutshell.
This lecture offers one hour of Missouri Continuing Legal Education credit. For more information, call (314) 935-6430.