C.V. Starr Lecture I
How “Wilsonian” was Woodrow
Wilson? with speaker Mark Weston Janis, William F.
Starr Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law
Approved for 1.5 CLE credits in Professional Practice (CLE
credits are free for graduates of New York Law School)
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Wednesday
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Prof. Mark Janis will explore how Woodrow
Wilson's interest in international law developed only late in life –
from disdain as a Princeton professor to a passion as a war-time
President. By exploring Wilson's conversion from an international law
skeptic to one of its most notable proponents, Prof. Janis will show how
Wilson's changing world view reflected and shaped both American foreign
policy and the development of international law.
About
Mark Weston Janis
Mark Weston Janis is William F.
Starr Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He
graduated from Princeton University, Oxford University (where he was a
Rhodes Scholar), and from Harvard Law School. He served as a U.S. naval
officer and practiced corporate and financial law with Sullivan &
Cromwell in New York and Paris. He teaches Public International Law,
European Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, and Conflict of Laws.
Prof. Janis is the author of three widely-used books:
International Law (Aspen 5th edition 2008), Cases and
Commentary on International Law with John Noyes (West 3rd edition
2006), and European Human Rights Law with Richard Kay and Anthony
Bradley (Oxford 3d edition 2008). He is also the author of The American
Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations (Oxford 2004),
America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939 (Oxford 2010,
forthcoming), and of more than 60 articles concerning public and private
international law. Prof. Janis is the co-editor of Religion and
International Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2nd edition 2004) and
International Law Stories (Foundation 2007). He is a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
