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In an event sponsored by the Human Rights and National Security Law Program, Jordan J. Paust, Professor of International Law at the University of Houston, will speak at the Law School on Thursday, September 27. Jordan J. Paust, Baker Law Center Professor of International Law at the Law Center of the University of Houston, will present a lecture titled Human Rights at Stake in the War on Terror at 5 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, in room 124 at the William & Mary Law School. Professor Paust’s talk is free and open to the public and is part of the Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Human Rights and National Security Law Program.

Paust, an expert in international law, human rights, and terrorism, will focus on the human rights at stake in what has been labeled the “war” on terror.” He will address the claims and counter-claims about whether such rights are legally applicable and were violated in any manner, as well as possible sanctions in case of violations.

Paust is the Mike and Teresa Baker Law Center Professor of International Law at the Law Center of the University of Houston. He received an A.B. and J.D. from UCLA, an LL.M. from the University of Virginia, and is a J.S.D. Candidate at Yale University. Currently the Co-Chair of the American Society’s International Criminal Law Interest Group, he has served on several committees on international law, human rights, laws of war, terrorism, and the use of force in the American Society of International Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the American Bar Association. He was also the Chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools and was on the Executive Council and the President’s Committee of the American Society of International Law.

Paust has been a Visiting Edward Ball Eminent Scholar University Chair in International Law at Florida State University, a Fulbright Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and a member of the faculty of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School, International Law Division.

In addition to the numerous books he has authored or co-authored in the areas of international law and human rights, Paust has published over 150 articles, book chapters, papers and essays in law journals around the world —many of which address treaties, customary international law, jurisdiction, human rights, international crimes, and the incorporation of international law into U.S. domestic law.

For more information, call the Law School at 757-221-1840 (lawcom@wm.edu).

Media contact: Brian Whitson at 757-221-7876 (bwwhit@wm.edu).