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42 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 1 (2009)
Enforcing Human Rights in U.S. Courts and Abroad: The Alien Tort Statute and Other Approaches

handle is hein.journals/vantl42 and id is 3 raw text is: VANDERBILT JOURNAL of TRANSNATIONAL LAW VOLUME 42 JANUARY 2009 NUMBER I Enforcing Human Rights in U.S. Courts and Abroad: The Alien Tort Statute and Other Approaches The 2008 Jonathan I. Charney Lecture in International Law Presented at Vanderbilt University Law School on April 11, 2008 John B. Bellinger III* Thank you very much for that kind introduction. And thank you all for having me here at Vanderbilt. I'm delighted to have the opportunity to visit this great university and law school. And I'm particularly grateful to Dean Rubin, and to Professor Newton for arranging my visit. I'd also like to thank Mrs. Sharon Charney for endowing this lecture in honor of her late husband Professor Jonathan I. Charney. As you know, Professor Charney taught at Vanderbilt for many years. He was well known to the Legal Adviser's office as one of the world's foremost experts on maritime law and as author of a leading treatise on the subject. He also served on the original U.S. delegation to the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea. U.S. foreign policy-under every Administration-involves promoting respect for human rights around the world. Most of you probably know that the State Department spends a great deal of time and effort abroad, persuading foreign governments to change their human rights behavior and administering programs to advance the * Legal Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, 2005-2009.

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