John Norton Moore
Born (1937-06-12) June 12, 1937 (age 87)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materThe University of Virginia
Scientific career
FieldsInternational law
National Security Law
Law of the sea
Palestinian-Israeli conflict
War on terrorism
The Gulf War
War crimes
Conflict management
Terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Central American conflict
Foreign affairs
Vietnam War
Intelligence
Constitutional law
Democracy and the rule of law
InstitutionsU.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Naval War College
University of Virginia
WebsiteJohn Norton Moore, Professor of Law

John Norton Moore (born June 12, 1937) was the Walter L. Brown Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He also directed the University's Center for National Security Law and the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, and was the Director of the Graduate Law Program at Virginia for more than twenty years. Viewed by many as the founder of the field of national security law, Professor Moore chaired the prestigious American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security for four terms.

He is the author or editor of over 35 books and over 170 scholarly articles and served for two decades on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, the American Society of International Law, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, and numerous other professional and honorary organizations. In 2013 he was presented with the American Bar Association's Morris I. Liebman Award in National Security Law.

In addition to his scholarly career, Professor Moore has a distinguished record of public service. Among seven Presidential appointments, he has served two terms as the Senate-confirmed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace and, as the first Chairman, set up this new agency. He served as the Counselor on International Law to the Department of State, and as Ambassador and Deputy Special Representative of the President to the Law of the Sea Conference, Chairman of the National Security Council Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea, and as a member of the United States' legal team before the International Court of Justice in the Gulf of Maine and Paramilitary cases. He also served as a Member of the Director of Central Intelligence's Historical Review Board.

He has served as a Consultant to both the President's Intelligence Oversight Board and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He has also been a member of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, the United States Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Presidential Delegation of the United States to observe the elections in El Salvador. In 1990, he served, with the Deputy Attorney-General of the United States, as the Co-Chairman of the first United States-USSR talks on the Rule of Law. He also served as the legal advisor for Kuwait to the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission.”

He explored running for the United States Senate from Virginia in 2016 and made an extensive presentation that year to the Republican Party advance at the homestead.

Education

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Moore earned his BA in Economics from Drew University in 1959. He earned his JD with distinction from Duke Law School in 1962. Later, he became a post doctorate fellow at the University of California International Legal Studies Program in 1963. Subsequently, he earned an LL.M. from the University of Illinois in 1965. Moore became a post-doctorate fellow at Yale Law School in 1965-66.

Career

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Moore was the Director, Centers for Oceans Law & Policy and National Security Law; Walter L. Brown Professor of Law, University of Virginia. He is also a former United States ambassador.

Late Sixties and the Seventies

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During the Summer of 1969 Moore was Co-Director at University of Virginia Council on Legal Education Opportunity Program (CLEO). From 1972 to 1973 Moore served as Counselor on International Law to the Department of State, with rank of Foreign Service Reserve ONE. Among other duties he drafted the United States sponsored treaty to prevent the spread of terrorism; worked extensively on constitutional issues concerning Legislative-Executive relations in the conduct of foreign affairs, including the War Powers Resolution, the Case Amendment (on international agreements), international agreements and Circular 175 (on international agreement practice); chaired the 75-member United States Delegation to the United Nations Seabed Committee (March-April 1973); supervised preparation and congressional introduction of the joint State-Justice Department sovereign immunity bill; initiated a proposal to add the first Legal Adviser to the National Security Council; and drafted a study on a new recognition policy for the United States. From 1972 to 1975 Moore was a member of the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. In 1972 he sat as Arbitrator in, International Bank v. Overseas Private Investment Corporation. From 1971 to 1972 he was a Sesquicentennial Associate at the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia. From 1973 to 1976 he served as Chairman of the National Security Council Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea; and Deputy Special Representative of the President for the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, with rank of Ambassador. Among other duties, he served as a United States Representative to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea; conducted extensive negotiation with United States allies, the Soviet Union, and developing countries; coordinated with the Congress and the private sector; and shaped and implemented a unified Executive Branch position on oceans issues. In 1976 Moore was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars before returning full time to the Faculty at Virginia.

The Eighties

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Moore has been a Consultant at the President's Intelligence Oversight Board from 1982 to 1989 and at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1987 to 1991. From 1982 to 1986 he served as Chairman of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security. He was appointed Special Counsel for the United States in, the Gulf of Maine Case before the International Court of Justice (1981-84) and, the Nicaragua Case before the International Court of Justice (1984). Later, in 1984 he served as Legal Counsel at the National Strategic Materials and Minerals Program Advisory Committee of the Department of the Interior. In 1984 he was a Member of the United States Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Athens). The same year, he was a Member of the Presidential Delegation of the United States to observe the elections in El Salvador. From 1984 to 1985 he was a Member of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. Later in 1985, he became an Honorary Member of the Faculty of the Judge Advocate General’s School of the Army. In 1985 he was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate (1985-89), reappointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate (1989-1991) as Chairman, and member, Board of Directors, The United States Institute of Peace. In 1989 to 1991 he was elected by the Board of the Institute as the first Board-elected Chairman. Since 2002, he is a Member at the Chairman’s Advisory Council. During the summer of 1986 he was a Lecturer in Law at the People's University, Beijing in China.

The Nineties

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In 1990 Moore set up and headed the United States Institute of Peace, the then newest federal agency with a budget of approximately $8.0 million. In January 1990, he was an Observer on behalf of the Foundation for Democracy in Namibia of the constitutional drafting process in Namibia. In 1991 he served as Chairman at the United Nations Advisory Panel of the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea. He was a Member from 1988 to 1990. From 1991 to 1996 he served as Legal Adviser to the Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States in the Gulf Crisis (1991-94) (including serving as the Legal Adviser to the Kuwait Representative to the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission). In 1992 he served as Legal consultant to the United States Information Agency. He is the Founding Director of The Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law, Rhodes in Greece. He has held this position since 1996.

The 21st Century

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Moore served as Consultant to Iceland and Ireland in setting up the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland and the Marine Law and Ocean Policy Centre of Ireland in 2000 and 2005. He was the Director of the Center for Oceans Law & Policy and Center for National Security Law; the Walter L. Brown Professor of Law (1966-72; 1976-2020); the Director of the Graduate Law Program (for over 20 years ending in 1993), University of Virginia School of Law. He has been a Professor Emeritus at Virginia Law since 2020.

His academic duties included teaching courses and seminars on International Law, National Security Law, Oceans Law & Policy, The Constitution and Foreign Relations Powers, Contemporary Legal Thought (jurisprudence); The Rule of Law: Controlling Government; War & Peace: New Thinking About the Causes of War and War Avoidance; Ethics in Foreign Policy, Indo-China Seminar, directing the post-graduate (Master of Law and Doctor of Jurisprudence) and scholar-in-residence programs of the Law School for over 20 years ending in 1993; and directing the Centers for Oceans Law & Policy and National Security Law, which run substantial national programs of teaching, research and public information in these respective areas. Moore taught the first course in the nation on National Security Law, conceived and co-authored the first casebook on National Security Law and pioneered this new field.

In addition, he served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center (teaching National Security Law and War & Peace seminar); Adjunct Professor of Law at American University (teaching National Security Law); and occasional Consultant or Lecturer at the National War College, Naval War College, Army War College, Foreign Service Institute, and Judge Advocate General's School of the Army. Moore also lectured widely on national security issues, foreign policy issues, international law issues, international boundary delimitations, United States maritime policy, constitutions and the rule of law, and resource and energy issues. He was a frequent witness before congressional committees on maritime policy, legal aspects of foreign policy, national security, war powers, treaty powers, human rights, democracy building, war avoidance, and other issues concerning foreign affairs and Legislative-Executive relations in the conduct of foreign affairs.

He prepared for Freedom House the final draft of what became the Community of Democracies.

He is the only person to have delivered the SOLF lecture twice to the Judge Advocate General’s School of the Army

Sports

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Moore has been a sixteen time Member of the United States Masters Powerlifting Team for the Bench Press. This included the United States team for the Pan American Championships 2012 & 2014, North American Championships 2015, 2016, 2017, & 2019 and the Bench Press World Championships, 2012, 2013, 2015 (bronze medal), 2016 (silver medal), 2017 (bronze medal), 2019 (gold and bronze medals).[1][2]

Honors and recognition

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Moore is a Member of the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, and Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. During his time at Duke Law her served as Articles Editor at the Duke Law Journal, and was First in class during his senior year. At Yale he was Co-chairman of the Yale Graduate Student Association (1965-1966).

  • He is the recipient of Phi Beta Kappa Award for Law and the Indo-China War; the Alternate Selection of Conservative Book Club for The Secret War in Central America; and the Drew University College Alumni Achievement Award in the Arts, 1976.
  • He was a Fellow of the Marine Technology Society in 1989.
  • He received the Hardy Dillard Award in International Law of the Virginia Bar Association in 1984; the George Washington Honor Medal of The Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge in 1985; the MTS-sponsored “Compass Distinguished Achievement Award,” in 1994.
  • He is an Honorary Member of Staff and Faculty, Judge Advocate General's School of the Army.
  • He was the Myres McDougal Lecture in International Law, University of Denver, 1981; Brendon Brown Lecture, Catholic University, 1982; Delivered the first Waldemar Solf Lecture in International Law, Judge Advocate General's School of the Army, 1983, and the most recent in 2020; Corliss Lamont Lecture, University of Wisconsin, 1987; The Secretary's Open Forum, U.S. Department of State, 1988; Andrew R. Cecil Lecture on Moral Values In a Free Society, University of Texas 1991; Thurlow M. Gordon Lecture, Dartmouth College, 2003; and the inaugural Douglas M. Johnston Lecture on Ocean Governance, Dalhousie Univ., 2009.

In recognition of work for United States adherence to the Genocide Convention, participated in Presidential signing ceremony for the law implementing and permitting United States ratification of the Convention, November 4, 1988.

  • He is a Member of the Bars of Florida (1962), Illinois (1963), Virginia (1969), District of Columbia (1974), United States Supreme Court (1973), United States Court of Claims (1980), United States District Court for the District of Columbia (2002), Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, and other courts.
  • He is a of Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law (1972-87), Comparative Strategy, Marine Technology Society Journal (1976-1991), Terrorism: An International Journal, and Journal of Political Communication and Persuasion; Member, International Advisory Board, Terrorism: An International Resource File, The American University Journal of International Law and Policy; Member, International Editorial Board of the 1986 Annual on Terrorism; Member, Academic Advisory Board, The Journal of Law & Politics; Member, Advisory Board, Journal of International Legal Studies (1995), Denver Journal of International Law and Policy; Chairman, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security (1982-86);
  • Vice Chairman, Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association (1980-83); Member, Council of the Section of International Law and Practice (1986-1992);
  • Member, State Department Advisory Committee on Law of the Sea (1976-82);
  • Member, State Department International Law Advisory Committee (1986-91);
  • Board of Advisors, The Forum for U.S.-Soviet Dialogue (1987-present); World Technology Foundation (1988-present); National Forum Foundation (1989-present);
  • Consortium for the Study of Intelligence; Council on Foreign Relations; Board of Trustees, Freedom House (1989-present);
  • Board of Directors, American Oceanic Organization (1979-85);
  • American Branch of the International Law Associa¬tion; American Law Institute; International Law Advisory Board, Institute of International Law at the University of Kiel (1988-present);
  • International Studies Advisory Board, Hoover Institution (1986-1990);
  • Board of Governors, International Security Council (1988-present);
  • Legislative Task Group of the World Strategy Network; Board of Directors, National Strategy Information Center; Division Chairman, Marine Policy & Education, Council of the Marine Technology Society (1979-2004);
  • Member, Advisory Board, Oceans '88 Conference and Exposition; Associated Scholar, Ethics and Public Policy Center (1986-present); Academic Board of Advisors, Washington Legal Foundation (1986-present);
  • Board of Research Consultants, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Tufts University (1988-1990);
  • Board of Advisors, Foreign Policy Center; President, Conflict Analysis Center (1983-present); President, Oceans & International (individual consulting firm); Member, Phi Delta Phi and MENSA; Member, Center for Strategic & International Studies' International Research Council (1991);
  • Member, The Advisory Council of the Ocean Policy Institute (1991-Present); and Member, International Council of Environmental Law (1991-present); Licensed Real Estate Agent in the State of Virginia (1991-present);
  • Member, Advisory Board to the Marine Mammal Commission's Treaties and Agreements Compendium (1992);
  • Member, The Maritime Law Association of the United States, Committee on the International Law of the Sea (1993-present); Member, American Arbitration Association's Panel of Arbitrators (1993-2000), Member, The Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs (1994-present);
  • Member, Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (1997); Counsellor to the American Society of International Law (2000-2001); Member, Associated Scholars and Board of Advisers of the New England Center for International Law and Policy (2001-present); Counselor to the Standing Committee on Law and National Security, American Bar Association (1997-present);
  • Member, Committee on Exploration of the Seas of the National Academy of Sciences (2001-present); Member, Council on Foreign Relations-Freedom House task force on the U.S. role in the United Nations (2001); Honorary Editor of the American Journal of International Law (2002-2012);
  • Member, Chairman’s Advisory Council, United States Institute of Peace (2002-present);
  • Consultant, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society (2002-present);
  • Informal Delegation Member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly for the 20th Anniversary of the Opening for Signature of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (December 9-10, 2002) [On this occasion, he was named by the United Nations Secretariat as one of five living American “personalities” who contributed to the success of the Convention]; Chairman, International and National Security Law Practice Group, Federalist Society (2003);
  • Representative, Task Force on the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association (2003);
  • Affiliated Faculty of the Research Company Ocean Futures, as of 2004;
  • Member of the Advisory Committee for China Oceans Law Review, as of 2005; designated Life Member of The American Law Institute, March 2005; Faculty Advisor for the University of Virginia chapter of the National Black Law Students Association, March 2005-present;
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, 2005-present;
  • Judge for the Freedom House Center for Religious Freedom International Religious Freedom Fellowships, 2005;
  • Member, the Bretton Woods Committee 2005–; Member, Committee on the Present Danger 2005–;
  • Consultant of COMI (Coastal and Ocean Management Institute, Xiamen Univ.) International Academic Advisory Committee, 2009-2012;
  • Member, International Advisory Board of Terrorism: An Electronic Journal and Knowledge Base 2009-;
  • Member, Editorial Board of the Aegean Review of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law 2010-; and member, Editorial Board of Partnership for Peace: An Academic Inter-Disciplinary Review. Made Honorary Citizen of Rhodes, Greece, for work on the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law, July 2012. *Winner of the American Bar Association’s Morris I. Liebman Award in National Security Law, 2013.
  • IAC Member, United States Institute of Peace, 2014-present.
  • Delivered the Fifth Annual Shabtai Rosenne Memorial Lecture at the United Nations, Nov. 2015.
  • Air Force JAG School, Inaugural National Security Law Writing Competition – Served on blue-ribbon panel evaluating finalists, May 2016.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, Shabtai Rosenne Initiative – beg. May 2017.
  • Member, International Law Studies Board of Advisors, Naval War College, 2017-.

His biographical profiles appear in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the South & Southwest, Who's Who in Government, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in Writers, Editors & Poets: U.S. & Canada, and Federal Staff Directory.

Books and publications

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  • Law and the Indo-China War, Princeton University Press, 1972.
  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Ed.) Princeton University Press, 3 vols., 1974. One volume revised and abridged edition, 1977. Volume IV (Parts I and II), 1991.
  • Law and Civil War in the Modern World (Ed.), Johns Hopkins Press, 1974.
  • Readings in International Law from the Naval War College Review (Ed. with Richard B. Lillich), 2 vols., 1983.
  • Law and the Grenada Mission (Co-published by the Center for Law and National Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies),1984.
  • International and United States Documents on Oceans Law and Policy (Ed.), William S. Hein & Co., 5 vols., 1986.
  • The Secret War in Central America, University Publications of America, Inc., 1986.
  • National Security Law (Ed. with Frederick S. Tipson and Robert F. Turner), Carolina Academic Press, 1990.
  • The Vietnam Debate: A Fresh Look at the Arguments (Ed.), University Press of America, Inc., 1990.
  • Crisis in the Gulf: Enforcing the Rule of Law, Oceana Press, 1992.
  • National Security Law Documents (Ed. with Guy B. Roberts and Robert F. Turner), Carolina Academic Press, 1995.
  • Strengthening the United Nations and Enhancing War Prevention (Ed. with Alex Morrison), Carolina Academic Press, 2000.
  • Treaty Interpretation, the Constitution and the Rule of Law, Oceana Publications, Inc., 2001.
  • The National Law of Treaty Implementation, Carolina Academic Press, 2001.
  • The Real Lessons of the Vietnam War: Reflections Twenty-Five Years After the Fall of Saigon (Ed. with Robert F. Turner), Carolina Academic Press, 2002.
  • The Stockholm Declaration and the Law of the Marine Environment, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, and Said Mahmoudi, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003.
  • Civil Litigation Against Terrorism (Ed.), Carolina Academic Press, 2004.
  • Solving the War Puzzle: Beyond the Democratic Peace, Carolina Academic Press, 2004.
  • Legal and Scientific Aspects of Continental Shelf Limits, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore and Tomas H. Heidar, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004.
  • National Security Law, Second Edition (Ed. with Robert F. Turner), Carolina Academic Press, 2005.
  • International Energy Policy, the Arctic and the Law of the Sea, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore and Alexander S. Skaridov, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005.
  • National Security Law Documents, Second Edition (Ed. with Guy B. Roberts and Robert F. Turner), Carolina Academic Press, 2006.
  • Recent Developments in the Law of the Sea and China, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, and Kuen-chen Fu, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006.
  • To Oppose any Foe: The Legacy of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam, Ross A. Fisher, John Norton Moore, and Robert F. Turner, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2006.
  • Law, Science and Ocean Management, Myron H. Nordquist, Ronán Long, Tomas H. Heidar, and John Norton Moore, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007.
  • Legal Challenges in Maritime Security, Myron H. Nordquist, Rüdiger Wolfrum, John Norton Moore, and Ronán Long, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
  • Freedom of Seas, Passage Rights and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, Myron H. Nordquist, Tommy T.B. Koh, and John Norton Moore, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.
  • Legal Issues in the Struggle Against Terror, John Norton Moore & Robert F. Turner, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2010.
  • Changes in the Arctic Environment and the Law of the Sea, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, and Tomas H. Heidar, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010.
  • The Law of the Sea Convention: U.S. Accession and Globalization, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, Alfred H.A. Soons, and Hak-So Kim, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012.
  • Maritime Border Diplomacy, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012.
  • International Arbitration: Contemporary Issues, John Norton Moore, ed., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013.
  • The Regulation of Continental Shelf Development: Rethinking International Standards, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, Aldo Chircop, and Ronán Long, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013.
  • Foreign Affairs Litigation in United States Courts, John Norton Moore, ed., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013.
  • Freedom of Navigation and Globalization, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, Robert Beckman, eds., Martinius Nijhoff Publishers, 2014.
  • National Security Law (3rd Edition), John Norton Moore, Robert F. Turner, Guy Roberts, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2015.
  • Challenges of the Changing Arctic: Continental Shelf, Navigation, and Fisheries, Myron H. Nordquist,John Norton Moore, and Ronán Long, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2016.
  • The Presidential Debates: Issues and Questions for the 2016 Election, J.N. Moore, ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2016.
  • International Marine Economy: Law and Policy, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, and Ronán Long, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2017.
  • Legal Order in the World’s Oceans: UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, and Ronán Long, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2017.
  • Common Resources: Law of the Sea, Outer Space, and Antarctica (American Classics in International Law), John Norton Moore, ed., Martinus Nijhoff, 2018.
  • Fighting the Fog of War: New Thinking about War and War Avoidance John N. Moore, Robert F.Turner, Michael Mott, Nathaniel Freeman, and Margaret Kelly, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2018.
  • The Marine Environment and United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, Ronán Long, eds., Martinus Nijhoff, 2018.
  • The Struggle fir Law in the Oceans: How a False Narrative Betrays America, forthcoming 2020.

References

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  1. ^ "John Moore - Open Power Lifting". openpowerlifting.org. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  2. ^ "The War-and-Peace Professor". law.virginia.edu. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
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