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Walter L. Brown Professor of Law
Director, Center for National Security Law
Director, Center for Oceans Law and Policy

Beyond the Democratic Peace: Solving the War Puzzle
Ambassador Moore, a former Chairman of the Board of the United States Institute of Peace, will present on the great importance of democracy and the rule of law in the promotion of peace and human dignity. The lecture will discuss current information about the origin and prevention of war, terrorism, famine, and economic failure. In the light of the best available scientific evidence, this talk is broadly a celebration of human freedom.

Reserve Free ticketsFriday, January 31, 2003
7:00-9:00pm
at the Fairfax County Government Center
12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax

About the speaker

John Norton Moore, who joined the UVa faculty in 1966, is an authority in the fields of international law, national security law, and the law of the sea. He also teaches advanced topics in national security law and contemporary legal thought. Moore taught the first course in the country on national security law and conceived and co-authored the first casebook on the subject. From 1991-93, during the Gulf War and its aftermath, Moore was the principal legal adviser to the Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States and to the Kuwait delegation to the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission.

From 1985 to 1991, he was chair of the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace, one of six presidential appointments he has held. From 1973 to 1976, he was chair of the National Security Council Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea and ambassador and deputy special representative of the president to the Law of the Sea conference.

Previously he served as the counselor on international law to the Department of State. With the deputy attorney general of the United States, he was co-chair in March 1990 of the United States-USSR talks in Moscow and Leningrad on the Rule of Law. As a consultant to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, he was honored by the director for his work on the ABM Treaty Interpretation Project.

He has been a frequent witness before congressional committees on maritime policy, legal aspects of foreign policy, national security, war and treaty powers, and democracy and human rights. He has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution.

Moore is a member of advisory and editorial boards for nine journals and numerous professional organizations, and he has published many articles on oceans policy, national security and international law.

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Listen to a Real Audio interview with John N. Moore discussing the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.


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Professor Moore's books include:

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Volume IV: The Difficult Search for Peace (1975-1988), Part One and Part Two (J.N. Moore ed., Princeton University Press 1991).

Crisis in the Gulf (Oceana Publications, Inc. 1992).

National Security Law: A Documentary Supplement (J.N. Moore et al. eds., Carolina Academic Press 1995).

Readings on International Law from the Naval War College Review: 1978-1994 (J.N. Moore & Robert F. Turner eds., Naval War College 1995).

Deception and Deterrence in "Wars of National Liberation," State-Sponsored Terrorism, and Other Forms of Secret Warfare (J.N. Moore ed., Carolina Academic Press, April 1997).

Oceans Policy: New Institutions, Challenges and Opportunities (J.N. Moore and Myron H. Nordquist, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1999).

Current Maritime Issues and the International Maritime Organization (J.N. Moore and Myron H. Nordquist, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1999).

Strengthening the United Nations and Enhancing War Prevention (J.N. Moore and Alex Morrison, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2000).

Current Fisheries Issues and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Myron H. Nordquist and John Norton Moore, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2000).

Treaty Interpretation, the Constitution and the Rule of Law (Oceana Publications, Inc., 2001).

Professor Moore is the author of numerous additional books, articles, book chapters, book reviews, and many other works. Click here for a full list of his published works.

Recent News and Quotes
Professor Moore was quoted April 17 in a nationally distributed Associated Press story by Curt Anderson headlined: U.S. MULLS TRIAL OF CAPTURED TERRORISTS

Professor Moore was quoted March 12 in a Christian Science Monitor story by Howard LaFranchi headlined: POWER PLAYS AT UN / WITH AFRICAN COUNTRIES WAVERING, PROSPECTS DWINDLE FOR US AND BRITAIN TO WIN 'MORAL VICTORY' AT THE UN

Professor Moore was quoted March 10 in a Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer article by Michael Doyle headlined: WAR LAWS SANCTION REPRISAL (No link found)

Professor Moore was quoted February 23 in a San Francisco Chronicle story by Seth Rosenfeld headlined: POLICY EXPERTS SEE LEGAL CHALLENGES IN WAR, TERRORISM / EVENTS OUTSTRIPPING INTERNATIONAL LAW

Professor Moore was quoted December 11, 2002 in a CNN.com article by Kevin Drew headlined: ON THE HIGH SEAS, A FLAG DETERMINES SEARCH AUTHORITY

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