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40 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 1 (2024-2025)

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   TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL GROTIUS

                 LECTURE SERIES


   Grotius Lecturer Dame Meg  Taylor and Distinguished Discussant
Julian Aguon provided the Twenty-Sixth Annual Grotius Lecture on
Wednesday,  April 3, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.


   SOVEREIGNTY, SURVIVAL AND CLIMATE

        JUSTICE: LEGAL AND POLITICAL

        FRONTIERS OF THE BLUE PACIFIC

                       CONTINENT*


                       DAME MEG  TAYLOR**


   Thank you, Dean Fairfax, for your warm introduction and thanks
also to the American Society of International Law and the American
University Washington College of Law for this invitation.
  It is indeed an honor to be with you today to deliver the Grotius


* This lecture is also forthcoming in 118 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. (2024).
** Dame Meg is a lawyer and diplomat from Papua New Guinea (PNG). She
currently serves on the Eminent Persons Group, responsible for developing the
Foreign Policy White Paper for the Government of PNG; the Board of Directors of
Nambawan Super, the largest superannuation company in PNG; and the board of the
PNG  Sustainable Development Program, which provides health, education, and
enabling infrastructure initiatives for the people of PNG. She is also Chair of The
Voice Inc. a youth organization in PNG. Regionally, Dame Meg is a Member of the
Pacific Elders Voice; an Advisor with Blue Ocean Law on its application to the ICJ
on Climate Change; a member of the International Advisory Panel for the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank; and Non-Resident Distinguished Fellow for the
Blue Pacific at the Asia Society Policy institute. Dame Meg is the former Secretary
General of the Pacific Islands Forum and Pacific Oceans Commissioner. She was
the founding Vice President of the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
for the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency of the World Bank Group. From 1989-1994, she was Ambassador of Papua
New Guinea to the United States, Mexico and Canada.


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