José E. Alvarez/Definition

Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and the executive director of the Center on Global Legal Problems at Columbia Law School, and taught at several other universities; executive council, American Society for Internationa Law former attorney adviser with the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State; legal adviser to the administration of justice program in Latin America coordinated by the Agency for International Developmentp;  Former international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;member of the Council on Foreign Relations and American Law Institute