Personnel

Directors

Center Director John Norton Moore, Associate Director and Editor Myron H. Nordquist, and Maury Fellow Samuel P. Menefee all maintain a rigorous yearly schedule of teaching, publishing, researching, organizing national conferences, testifying before congressional committees, and meeting with law students.

Professor John Norton Moore, Director

Professor Moore is the Walter L. Brown Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, Director of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, and Director of the Center for National Security Law.

He is the author or editor of thirty-eight books and over 170 scholarly articles and served for two decades on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, where he is currently an Honorary Editor. 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 also 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, a Member of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, Chairman of the National Security Council Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea, and as a Deputy Agent of the United States before the International Court of Justice in the Nicaragua case. He further served as the Legal Adviser to Kuwait during the Gulf War and as their Legal Adviser in the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission after the war. He prepared the first draft of what became the Community of Democracies for Freedom House. Viewed by many as the founder of the field of national security law, Professor Moore chaired the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security for four terms. His work today focuses on the origins and control of war, democracy and the rule of law, the oceans frontier, and national security challenges.

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Professor Myron H. Nordquist, Associate Director

Myron is the Associate Director and Editor, Center for Oceans Law and Policy, and Senior Fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. From January 1999 to January 2004 he was counsel to Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT). Formerly, Professor Nordquist was Professor of Law, United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, and the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College. He also served as Attorney/Legislative Counsel, Department of State; Deputy General Counsel, Department of the Air Force; and Acting General Counsel, Department of the Air Force. Professor Nordquist is the editor or author of over 50 books, 25 proceedings, and many other scholarly publications.

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Dr. Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, Maury Fellow

Sam is the Maury Fellow of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy and Senior Associate of the Center for National Security Law. A summa cum laude and Scholar of the House graduate of Yale University, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He also holds graduate degrees from Harvard, Virginia, and Cambridge. Dr. Menefee is the author or editor of four books or monographs, and some 130 contributions to law reviews, professional journals, and books, including the Dictionary of National Biography and the Oxford Companion to World Exploration. He has been Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cape Town's Institute of Marine Law, Cosmos Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas School of Law and Professor of Law at Regent University School of Law. Dr. Menefee is a member of seven state bars and the District of Columbia's and a Fellow of numerous academic societies.

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