ASIL honorees, awardees sought

Following our earlier posts respecting requests for nominations to leadership positions in the American Society of International Law (here) and to the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law (here):
ASIL committees seek nominations for the following:

Medals, Honor Certificate

ASIL's Honors Committee -- chaired by John Crook and also including IntLawGrrl Hope Lewis, as well as our colleagues Vaughan Lowe, Ved Nanda, and Kathleen Paisley -- asks ASIL members to nominate persons for the Society's highest honors, to be awarded at the annual meeting next March:

► Goler T. Butcher Medal (right), given to a distinguished person of American or other nationality for outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law. The medal commemorates the lifework of Goler Teal Butcher (1925-1993), an IntLawGrrls foremother, whose many achievements included Howard University Law Professor, State Department official, and head of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Previous honorees include another IntLawGrrls foremother, Virginia Leary (prior post), as well as IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Hilary Charlesworth; here is the full list of honorees.

► Manley O. Hudson Medal (right), given from time to time, without regard to recipient's nationality, for scholarship and achievement in international law. The medal commemorates the lifework of Manley Ottmer Hudson (1886-1960), whose many achievements included Harvard Law Professor, Judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice and ASIL President. As posted, the 2010 Medal winner was another past President, Edith Brown Weiss, a Georgetown Law Professor; here is a list of all previous honorees.

► Designation as Honorary Member, for a non-U.S. citizen who has rendered distinguished contributions or service in the field of international law. Previous honorees here.

The Honors Committee welcomes nominations for each of these three honors, to be submitted no later than August 31, 2010, via the online nomination form available here. The Committee will include in its consideration nominations made in previous years; it invites persons who made nominations in previous years to supplement their earlier letters as appropriate.

Questions may be directed to the Committee by contacting Veronica Onorevole at 2011awards@asil.org.

Scholarship Awards
Authors, publishers, and readers are encouraged to submit works appropriate for the book awards known as ASIL Certificates of Merit, given for preeminent contribution to:
► Creative scholarship;
► Specialized area of international law; and/or
► High technical craftsmanship.
(Previous honorees here.) Eligible are books by authors of any nationality, published in any language and at any place in the 24 months preceding February 1, 2011. To nominate, send 6 copies of the work no later than October 1, 2010, to Veronica Onorevole, Executive Office & Programs Manager, American Society of International Law, 2223 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008.

Prominent Woman in International Law Award

At the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting last month, WILIG, the Women in International Law Interest Group, conferred the Prominent Woman in International Law Award on Dinah Shelton, the Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law at George Washington University Law School, the first woman nominated by the United States to become a member of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (prior post) -- and one of WILIG's founders. Her full speech, "Where I sit and where I stand," is available on the WILIG listserv at ASIL, but here is an interesting observation about the history of women in international law that she included:

I particularly miss my dear friend Virginia Leary, with whom I initially chaired WILIG. We were part of a small group, along with Kit Bigelow, Edith Brown Weiss, Cynthia Lichtenstein, and Amy Young, who started this wonderful association [WILIG] some 30 years ago. At that point women were being admitted to law school in growing numbers and this brought more into the Society [ASIL], which was not so quick to recognize this new reality. The 75th anniversary meeting was the catalyst: not a single (or married for that matter) woman international lawyer from the U.S. appeared on the program. We decided that was the last time such a result would occur.

And here's a tantalizing paragraph that explains the title of her talk:

Now, to turn to sitting and standing…. One of the members of the current US administration has repeatedly said when asked about his new position and policy on certain international matters that “where you stand depends upon where you sit.” I’ve given that a lot of thought, because I am now sitting in a new position as member and vice-president of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. We are just finishing our first two week session since my election. What have I learned about where I stand from where I sit, and what does that phrase actually mean?

Read more here.

Happy 3d birthday to us! Again.

Today we IntLawGrrls celebrate our 2d 3d birthday.
Huh?
Well, in an unintended display of math anxiety, this founder/'Grrl declared it our golden birthday on this day a year ago -- that is, said then that we'd juist turned 3 on the 3d day of the 3d month. In fact, though we were entering our 3d year, it had only been 2 years since the launch of this blog on "international law, policy, practice." But no one called us on the arithmetic error, and so today we get to celebrate gold all over again.
Since we announced our birth on what folks in Japan marked as Girls Day 2007, we've grown like Topsy.
We're proud cosponsors of 2 autumn conferences -- 2009 and, yet to come, 2010.
We're proud that 'Grrls have been invited to speak at other conferences, to contribute scholarship, blog posts, and op-eds, on account of their work here.
Contributing more than 3,000 posts have been nearly 3 dozen permanent IntLawGrrls voices, plus more than 100 women who've joined us as guests. 'Grrls and guests/alumnae have ties to nearly 2 dozen countries in our world. As listed in full in our righthand column, we include, to name a very few, distinguished presidents Lucy Reed and Hélène Ruiz Fabri, distinguished scholars like Mireille Delmas-Marty and Hilary Charlesworth (and so many others), distinguished diplomat Diane Orentlicher, distinguished judges Patricia M. Wald and Marilyn J. Kaman, and distinguished U.N. expert Gay McDougall. And we've been proud over the years to honor no fewer than 70 transnational foremothers -- women who've inspired us, from "A" (Alice Paul) to "V" (Virginia Leary).
To all our contributors and all our readers -- today we will pass the milestone of 400,000 viewings since our founding! -- heartfelt thanks. We look forward to a Year 4 future of sharing lots more good things.

Women @ ASILquater

As we have each year since our founding (here, here, and here), IntLawGrrls is proud today to highlight women who will speak March 24-27 at the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Society of International Law.
This 104th gathering of the Society, entitled International Law in a Time of Change, kicks off with the Grotius Lecture by Antony Anghie at 4:30 p.m. on March 24, features a keynote address by State Department Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh at 5 p.m. March 25, the Manley O. Hudson Medal Lecture by Edith Brown Weiss (right)at 4:15 p.m. March 26, a keynote by Canada's Chief Justice, Beverley McLachlin (below left), at 5:30 March 26, and runs through March 27. All events will take place at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, 1150 22d Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. (Details and registration here.)

Delighted to see from the program that, once again, there's much diversity in topics and presenters. Virtually all panels again have at least 1 woman participating, and that many have more (those few that do not include women do not, alas, receive mention in this list). Kudos to the Program Committee Co-Chairs, IntLawGrrls' own Hari M. Osofsky and our colleagues K. Russell LaMotte and Allen S. Weiner! Particularly proud that so many persons featured are IntLawGrrls or IntLawGrrls guest alumnae -- not only Planning Committee members Rebecca Bratspies, Chimène Keitner, Hope Lewis, and Beth Van Schaack, but also, of course, Lucy Reed (right), who will conclude her 2-year tenure as ASIL President at the meeting, to be succeeded by our colleague David D. Caron.
Without further ado, here's this year's honor roll:

Thursday, March 25, 9-10:30 a.m.
► "Empirical Approaches to International Law": Elizabeth Andersen (ASIL Executive Director), IntLawGrrl Elena Baylis (Pittsburgh), Susan Franck (Washington & Lee), Janet Levit (Tulsa), and panelists; Tonya Putnam (Columbia), moderator.
►"New Thinking on Social and Economic Rights: Honoring Virginia Leary," an IntLawGrrls foremother: IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Gay McDougall (United Nations) (below, far right), Mona Rishmawi (United Nations), and Alicia Ely Yamin (Harvard), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Barbara Stark (Hofstra), moderator.
►"International Human Rights Law, Foreign Sovereign Immunity, and National Courts": Rosanne van Alebeek (Amsterdam), Sarah H. Cleveland (Counselor to State Department) (near right), panelists.
►"Getting to Closure: Winding Up the International and Hybrid Criminal Tribunals": Tracey Gurd (Open Society Justice Initiative) and Anne Joyce (State Department), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Valerie Oosterveld (Western Ontario), moderator.
►"Risk, Science and Law in the WTO": Tracey Epps (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade), panelist.
►"New Voices I": Dionysia Avgerinopoulou (Columbia), IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Máiréad Enright (Cork), and Alexandra R. Harrington (McGill), panelists; Edith Brown Weiss (Georgetown), moderator.

Thursday, March 25, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
►"Providing Global Public Goods Under International Law": Anne van Aaken (St. Gallen, Max Planck Institute), Victoria Henson-Apollonio (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research), Inge Kaul (United Nations), and Sabrina Safrin (Rutgers-Newark), panelists; IntLawGrrl Rebecca Bratspies (CUNY), moderator.
►"Extraterritoriality: Bagram and Beyond": Sabine Nölke (Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs), panelist; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Chimène Keitner (California-Hastings), moderator.
►"Hot Topics in GATS and Human Rights": Jane Kelsey (Auckland) and Marion Panizzon (World Trade Institute), panelists.
►"Teaching International Law: Lessons from Clinical Education": Lusine Hovhannisian (Public Interest Law Initiative) and Deena Hurwitz (Virginia), panelists.

Thursday, March 25, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
► Women in International Law Interest Group Luncheon: Dinah Shelton (George Washington; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) (left), speaker.

Thursday, March 25, 1-2:30 p.m.
► "Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Modern Challenges to Use of Force Law": Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker (Pacific McGeorge) and Hina Shamsi (NYU), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Mary Ellen O'Connell (Notre Dame), moderator.
► "Evolving Intersections Between Treaty Law and Domestic Law": IntLawGrrl Johanna E. Bond (Washington & Lee) and Mallory Stewart (State Department), panelists.

Friday, March 26, 9-10:30 a.m.
► "International Environmental Justice: Possibilities, Limits and Tensions": Deepa Badrinarayana (Chapman) and Jennifer M. Green (Minnesota), panelists.
► "Corruption and Human Rights": Leslye Obiora (Arizona), panelist.
► "International Law 2.0": Beth Simone Noveck (Office of Science and Technology) and Renee C. Redman (Iran Human Rights Documentation Center), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Molly Beutz Land (New York), moderator.
► "New Voices II": Neha Jain (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law), Kimberley N. Trapp (Cambridge), and IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Julie Veroff (Oxford), panelists.

Friday, March 26, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
► "Non-State Actors and the Emerging Climate Change Law Regime:" Elizabeth Burleson (South Dakota) and IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza (California-Hastings), panelists; Jaye Dana Ellis (McGill), moderator.
► "Updating the Restatement": Oona Hathaway (Yale) and 9th Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown (left), panelists.
► "Same or Different? Fighting Terrorists in the Bush and Obama Administrations": IntLawGrrl Diane Marie Amann (California-Davis) and Susan Baker Manning (Bingham McCutchen), panelists.

► "The Rising Use of International Law by African Judiciaries": Erika George (Utah), panelist; Angela M. Banks (William & Mary), moderator.
► "Preventing the Next Financial Crisis: Coordination and Competition in Global Finance": Barbara C. Matthews (BCM International Regulatory Analytics), panelist.

Friday, March 26, 12:45-2:15 p.m.
► "Reform and Restructuring at International Financial Institutions": Anne-Marie Leroy (General Counsel, World Bank), panelist.
► "Theoretical Insights at the Margins of International Law: CLS Meets TWAIL": Celina Romany (Puerto Rico Bar Association), panelist; Jeanne M. Woods (Loyola-New Orleans), moderator.
► "Family, Sex, and Reproduction: Emerging Issues in International Law": Joanna N. Erdman (Toronto), Katherine Franke (Columbia), Laura Katzive (Wellspring Advisors), and Kathleen Lahey (Queen's-Ontario); Nancy Northup (Center for Reproductive Rights), moderator.
► "War and Law in Cyberspace": Eliana Davidson (Defense Department) and Robin Geiss (International Committee of the Red Cross), panelists.
► "Implications of the Global Financial Crisis on International Trade and Investment Regimes": Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk), panelist.

Friday, March 26, 2:30-4 p.m.
► "Bottom-Up Strategies for Survival and Resistance: Examples from Latin America and Elsewhere": Chantal Thomas (Cornell), panelist; Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol (Florida), moderator.
► "Transnational Legal Dialogue, a Human Rights-Based Hierarchy, and the Creation of Norms": Jutta Brunnée (Toronto), IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Patricia M. Wald (former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) (right, and Melissa A. Waters (Washington University), panelists; Erika de Wet (Amsterdam and Pretoria), moderator.

► "Remembering Tom Franck: What He Taught Us about the Recourse to Force": Rosalyn Higgins (former President, International Court of Justice) (far left), moderator.

► "ICSID in the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Meg Kinnear" (Secretary-General, World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes) (near left).

Friday, March 26, 4:15-5:15 p.m.

► "Hudson Medal Lecture": Medal Winner Edith Brown Weiss (Georgetown).

Friday, March 26, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

► ""Keynote": Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada

Saturday, March 27, 9-10:30 a.m.

► "The Road Forward from Copenhagen: Climate Change Policy in the 21st Century": Ann Petsonk (Environmental Defense Fund), panelist.

► "The ICC Review Conference and Changing U.S. Policy Towards the Court": Olivia Swaak-Goldman (International Criminal Court), panelist; Leila Nadya Sadat (Washington University), moderator.

► "China and East Asia on the World Stage": Deborah Brautigam (American) and Saadia Pekkanen (University of Washington), panelists; Julia Ya Qin (Wayne State), moderator.

Saturday, March 27, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

► "Advancing Women's Rights Internationally": Cathy Albisa (National Economic and Social Rights Initiative), Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin (Minnesota) and Rebecca Cook (Toronto),panelists; Kamari Maxine Clarke (Yale), moderator.

► "Treaty Bodies and Beyond: The Practice and Process of Translating International Norms into Domestic Law": Susan Deller Ross (Georgetown) and Ruth Wedgwood (John Hopkins; Human Rights Council) (right), panelists; Celia Goldman, moderator.

Guest Blogger: Barbara Stark

It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Barbara Stark (left) as today's guest blogger.
Barbara is Professor of Law and John DeWitt Gregory Research Scholar at Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, New York, having joined that faculty in 2005. This semester she's a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School; in the past, she's visited at New England School of Law and the University of West Virginia. She's held leadership positions in the American Society of International Law, the Association of American Law Schools, and the International Law Association.
She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, a J.D. from New York University, and an LL.M. from Columbia University.
Barbara's published widely on matters related to international family law and to women -- not only many chapters and law review articles, but also books, including International Family Law: An Introduction (2005), Global Issues in Family Law (with Iowa Law Professor Ann Laquer Estin, 2007) and Family Law in the World Community: Cases, Materials, and Problems in Comparative and International Family Law (with Tulsa Law Professor D. Marianne Blair et al., 2009).
Barbara discusses her recent scholarship respecting women, poverty, and international economic law in her guest post below.
She dedicates her post to Virginia Leary (below left), the human rights advocate and academic, and a past recipient of the Goler T. Butcher Medal, whose passing IntLawGrrls marked last year. (photo credit) Barbara notes in particular Virginia's

groundbreaking work on economic rights and her generous hospitality, her willingness to invite and include new women in international law.

Today Virginia joins other IntLawGrrls foremothers at the list below our "visiting from..." map at right.

Heartfelt welcome!

In Passing: Virginia Leary

Virginia Leary
August 15, 1926 – April 8, 2009

Yesterday, Virginia Leary died suddenly of a heart attack in Geneva, Switzerland, where she had lived for a number of years since her retirement. She grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she also attended the University of Utah. Her legal education and career in human rights are covered in this post which describes the Goler T. Butcher Medal she received for her outstanding contribution to human rights. She was awarded the Medal at the American Society of International Law at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in April 2008. Professor Leary was a prolific scholar on a broad range of issues, including labor law, workers’ rights, the right to health, child labor issues, and international trade and human rights.
In addition to her outstanding professional career, Professor Leary was an exceptional human being. Her wit and good humor made her friends wherever she went. Her students became her close friends. Following are comments and condolences written shortly after the announcement of her death. She touched both her long term friends as well as recent acquaintances, including seven Frank C. Newman Interns who were representing Human Rights Advocates at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in March. Professor Leary sat on the Human Rights Advocates International Advisory Board for many years, and played a similar leadership role in a number of other groups.

What a wonderful shining inspiration Virginia has been to me across the years.
-Janelle Diller

So many of us have such fond memories of Virginia throughout the years that each of us has known her. I still even remember when Virginia was working on her doctorate when I met her decades ago in Geneva! She had such well-organized index cards!! Boy, does that date us!!!! Anyway, I am happy that there will be a memorial service out here at some point and that we can all share remembrances of this wonderful woman who graced our lives. Sadly,
-Julianne Traylor

I was very sorry to hear that Virginia Leary passed away. She was a wonderful human being.
-David Weissbrodt

Je suis peinée du départ de Virginia. Elle me laisse le souvenir d'une personne qui a joyeusement contribuer jusqu'à la fin à diverses initiatives de justice sociale.
(I am pained by Virginia's passing. She leaves with me the memory of a person who contributed joyously until the end to a variety of social justice initiatives.)
-Gaëtane Gascon

Merci pour ce message bien triste du dépàrt de Virginia. Je crois qu'elle est dans la Paix pour toujours.

(Thanks for this very sad message of Virginia’s passing. I believe that she is in Peace forever.)
-Fina Bijnens

I am so sorry to hear about Virginia. She was such a vivacious and spirited woman. I'm so thankful that we had the opportunity to meet her.
-Amanda Solter

Oh I'm so very sorry. She was such a very special woman and truly touched me. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to meet her.

My deepest sympathies,
Marie Montesano

I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Virginia . She is on my prayers and also I have very vivid the wonderful moments that we shared with her in Geneva and her incredible energy.
Regards,
Laura Rivera

I am so sorry to hear this. She made an incredible impression upon all of us in just the few times that we were able to see her in Geneva. She seemed to be such a vibrant woman. My deepest sympathies go out to her friends and family.

-Alex Tuzin

I am saddened to hear today about the loss of Virginia Leary. In the short few times that I had the pleasure of meeting her, I was impacted by her strength, humor, kindness and spirit. She was a true character, in the grandest sense of the word. I'm reminded of a quote: "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter ". If that's the standard, I'm sure Virginia didn't waste a minute.

-Amol Mehra

She was such an amazing woman, I can't believe she's gone. She was so sharp, and her wit sharper. My best to her family, the short time we knew her was enough to admire the strong, intelligent, independent woman she was. Goodbye Virginia. You will be sorely missed.
-Leslie Bennett

Very very sorry to hear, and yes absolutely how lucky we are to have known her.
-Sofia Gruskin

Such a wonderful amazing inspiring caring person. She leaves a world changed by her good work, and countless numbers of us nourished by having worked with her.
-Stephanie Farrior

A great sadness indeed - but what a life well lived! What impact, strength, intellect, and warmth.
-Sandra Coliver

She had a wonderful, long and rich life-- she was someone I truly believed would always be there. It's a lesson in not taking anyone's life for granted any more.
-Jane Rocamora

Indeed, so here's to speaking of Virginia's good life as a way to build a long and vibrant and diverse community that enables us all to continue.
-Ali Miller

I could not have said it better myself!

Virginia Leary honored with Goler T. Butcher Medal for contributions to human rights

Virginia Leary (left) is evidence of the truth in the adage that one person can make a difference. As the American Society of International Law recently noted, she has done “path-breaking work as a lawyer, scholar, teacher and activist in international law and human rights, particularly in the areas of international labor law and workers’ rights.” Countless numbers of us have been profoundly inspired by her.
This week at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., the American Society of International Law is honoring Virginia Leary with the Goler T. Butcher Medal for her outstanding contribution to human rights. It seems so fitting that she receive the medal pictured below right and named for my IntLawGrrls transnational foremother, Goler Teal Butcher. That's because both Virginia and Goler worked on economic and social rights as human rights long before many other rights activists in the U.S. did. And both have been leaders globally and mentors locally.

About Virginia Leary

Lawyer and professor. A former Vice-President of the American Society of International Law, Virginia Leary earned her J.D. degree from the University of Chicago, a doctoral degree from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and the diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law.

After working for an international women’s organization in Geneva, the Intercultural Cooperation Association, she worked for the International Labour Organization until joining the faculty of the State University of Buffalo and then the University of California-Hastings. Now that she is retired from full-time teaching and living in Geneva, she serves on the Advisory Board of the Program for the Study of International Organizations at the University of Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International Studies, where she recently directed a project on the social aspects of trade liberalization.

Lawyer-Activist. Virginia Leary was a founding member of the Geneva-based International Council for Human Rights Policy, whose studies and reports I consider among the most useful work produced by a human rights organization. She has undertaken human rights missions on behalf of Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, and Human Rights Watch, and has been a consultant to the World Health Organization and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. She serves on the Boards of several organizations, including the Centre on Housing and Evictions (COHRE), Human Rights Advocates, and the International Labor Rights Forum, and previously served on the Board of Human Rights Watch Asia.

Scholar. A prolific scholar, she has written books, book chapters and articles on international labor law, workers’ rights, the right to health, child labor issues, and international trade and human rights. She recently co-edited the book Social Issues, Globalization and International Institution: Labour Rights and the EU, ILO, OECD and WTO.

Mentor and role model. Virginia Leary’s contribution to human rights also includes mentoring countless women and men in international human rights the world over, a role she has undertaken with care and energy reminiscent of Goler Teal Butcher.

About Goler Teal Butcher

When I first met Goler Butcher back in the mid-1980s, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International-USA (AIUSA) as well as Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law. I had the good fortune to work with Goler over the years on international legal issues as well as AI policy issues. It was when we roomed together for a week in Yokohama at Amnesty’s biennial policy-making meeting in 1991 that she shared some stories of her experiences as an African-American woman in the very white male world of international law in the early 1960s. I also learned from watching her in action at the Yokohama meeting, engaging with Amnesty delegates from around the world.

Goler Teal Butcher graduated in 1957 from the Howard University School of Law – where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Howard University Law Review. She was the only woman in her class. She earned her LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School the following year. She clerked for the first African American judge on a federal appeals court, the renowned William Henry Hastie.

After working for a law firm, she joined Office of the Legal Advisor at the Department of State in 1963, the first African-American lawyer to serve in that office. She then served as counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, where she earned a reputation for strong leadership. (In the photo at right, she's with U.S. Rep. Charles Diggs (D-Mich.); she was his 1st staff counsel for Africa when he resigned "from the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1971 to protest Nixon administration support for South Africa and Portuguese colonialism.") Under President Carter, Butcher served as U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) director for Africa, and some years later, she headed the Clinton-Gore transition team for the agency.

Goler also devoted much care to her students and to her colleagues in the NGO community. She herself created the Goler Teal Butcher Award to attract students to the study of international law at Howard University. Today, the university honors her through its Goler Teal Butcher
International Moot Court Team, which this past year won the award for Best Complainant Submission in the Fourth Annual WTO Competition in Geneva.

She also touched us through her publications, which addressed U.S. foreign policy, apartheid, the relationship of law to the problem of hunger, discrimination in employment faced by women and by African-Americans, and issues of the United States and International Court of Justice advisory opinions, among other topics.

When she died in 1993, her successor to her position at USAID wrote:

Africa has lost a great champion. Washington has lost a giant.