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George E. Edwards is The Carl M. Gray Professor of Law & the Faculty Director of the Program in International Human Rights Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Until Spring 2011, he was Faculty Director (Founding) of the International Human Rights Law LL.M. Track at the Indiana McKinney School of Law. He has also served as Executive Chair of Graduate Law Programs.
Professor Edwards is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. He has received numerous teaching, research and civic engagement awards for Indiana University since 1999. |
Professor Edwards has traveled to over 2 dozen countries in recent years and given presentations there on U.S. graduate legal education, focusing on U.S. LL.M. programs for international students. He has published numerous law review and other articles on this topic, and appeared in publications and website based in different countries.
More background information about Professor Edwards is below.
George E. Edwards is the C.M. Gray Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is also Faculty Director (Founding) of the school’s Program in International Human Rights Law, which was on 25 July 2011 awarded Special Consultative Status with and Accreditation to the United Nations Economic & Social Council (UN-ECOSOC).
Professor Edwards is Founding Faculty Director (former) of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Track in International Human Rights Law (resignation effective Spring 2011), and Executive Chair (Inaugural / Former) of the Graduate Law Programs. He is an Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University, Bloomington. He has received numerous Teaching, Research and Civic Engagement Awards from Indiana University since 1999. He teaches International Human Rights Law; International Legal Transactions; Public International Law; and International Criminal Law.
He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and Association Editor of the Harvard Journal of International Law. He was also a research assistant for a director of the Harvard LL.M. program, and he helped edit an international law book.
Before joining the IU law faculty, he lived for six years in Hong Kong and worked as associate director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong, and lectured at City University of Hong Kong. He also taught for the Law Society of Hong Kong.
From 1987 to 1991, Professor Edwards practiced with the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He served as law clerk to The Honorable Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York. He was Visiting Professor at DePaul College of Law and Stetson College of Law, and Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is Life Member, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
In 2001 Professor Edwards traveled to South America on a Fulbright grant to teach at Universidad de San Pedro, in Peru. For over a decade he was accredited to the United Nations to represent the National Bar Association, and has also represented the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. Currently, he is accredited to the United Nations through the Indiana Law School’s Program in International Human Rights Law he created in 1997. He has taught in, lectured, presented papers, and participated in conferences in dozens of countries around the globe.
As founding director of the Program in International Human Rights Law, Professor Edwards has, since 1997, facilitated and supervised over 175 Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law student summer intern placements at the U.N. and other human rights organizations in over 55 countries on 6 continents. He has supervised approximately a dozen United Nations pro bono reports students and staff researched, drafted and presented to various United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies. Professor Edwards was tendered as an Expert Witness in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Military Commission case against Australian David Hicks. He and students provided research assistance for the defense of Mr. Hicks and for Mr. Omar Khadr, who is a Canadian who was 15 when taken to Guantanamo Bay.
Professor Edwards is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF) Fellow, and has served as elected Member of the House of Representatives of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The National Bar Association honored him with the Ronald H. Brown Award for International Distinction. In 2012, he was appointed the Center for National Policy Fellow in International Human Rights (Washington, D.C).
Professor Edwards’ is the author of a book titled LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Publishing Company) (624 pages) (September 2011) (www.LLMRoadMap.com) The LL.M. Roadmap website has had hits from over 1,350 different cities in about 144 countries, from many thousands of IP addresses. The book has over 1,700 Twitter Followers (@LLMRoadMap). The LL.M. Roadmap global launch was at Harvard Law School in September 2011, and has debuts and book signings in London, Paris, Louisiana, Vietnam, Washington & many other cities.
Professor Edwards co-edited Volumes 1-5 of the Hong Kong Public Law Reports, and is widely published internationally in international human rights law. He is published in domestic law journals (including at Yale, Harvard, & American University) & overseas (e.g., Netherlands). He has presented papers at U.S. & overseas law conferences in many countries, appeared before United Nations Human Rights Bodies (New York & Geneva), and appeared in domestic & international media (print, TV, radio).
Countries where Professor Edwards lectured, delivered papers, participated at seminars, represented or advised human rights groups include: Kuwait, People’s Republic of China, South Africa, Switzerland, Canada, France, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Liberia, Lithuania, Chile, Peru, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Japan, Kenya, Philippines, Spain, Ghana, Jordan, Korea, Uganda, Vietnam, Oman, South Africa (video-link – 16 October 2012), Iran (via video-link) & Saudi Arabia.
Professor Edwards received a U.S. Department of State (U.S. Information Agency) grant to lecture in Lithuania at a Constitutional Court Conference in Vilnius & at other Lithuanian venues. He has hosted dozens of U.S. Department of State Visitor Program participants from many countries (visiting Indiana). He made an invited presentation for the United Nations Institute for Research & Training (UNITAR) (UN Headquarters, New York)
At Indiana University he has been Board of Faculty Advisors (Member), Indiana International & Comparative Law Review; Faculty Advisor (Inaugural), International Human Rights Law Society & Amnesty International Student Chapter; Elected by Full Faculty: Law School Executive Committee; Campus Faculty Council; and Appointed: Titled Professorships Committee (2007 - ); Alliance of Distinguished & Titled Professors. He has been appointed as J.D. “Hooder” at Commencement Ceremonies, and voted by Master of Laws (LL.M.) students as LL.M. Commencement Hooder, and appointed as Commencement Marshall.
Testimony & Affidavits; Human Rights Group Advocacy; Judicial Training; Other Pro Bono
· Guantanamo Bay, U.S. Military Commissions.
§ Tendered as expert witness in case of David Hicks, an Australian “detainee”. Expert Affidavits in 2004 & 2005.
In 2007, traveled to Guantanamo as legal advisor on 1st completed military commission since World War II.
§ Consulted on case of Mr. Omar Khadr, a Canadian taken to Guantanamo Bay at age 15.
· Breaker Morant - Work on petition to HRH the Queen of England for 1902 war crimes conviction of Australian.
· Slobodan Milosevic. Supervised student research teams on Milosevic case (before UN Tribunal - The Hague - ICTY).
· Dragan Vasiljkovic (Daniel Snedden). Extradition case from Australia to Croatia -- war crimes charges.
· Invited Expert to Chatham House & Atlantic Council Transatlantic Dialogue on International Law (2010) (London)
· Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) Panel Testimony (Prepared Government briefing papers for Amnesty Int’l.)
· Represented Human Rights Watch/Asia as expert trial observer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
· Published reports with The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (Human Rights First).
· United Nations Conference Delegate (& Related): UN Diplomatic Conf. of Plenipotentiaries on Int’l Criminal Court (Rome ‘98); Vienna + 5 Global Forum (Ottawa ‘98); World Conference Against Racism, Race Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance (WCAR) (Durban ‘01); WCAR Prep Com (Santiago ‘00); Durban Review Conference (Geneva ‘09); International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference (Kampala, Uganda, 2010).
· Delegate (NGO) at UN: Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Council, Treaty Bodies, DPI, Forum on Forests.
· United Nations accreditation (via NBA & PIHRL) in New York, Geneva, Vienna, Amman (Jordan), & Bangkok.
· Trained judges at Indiana Judicial Center (on International Law & International Human Rights Law).
· Supervised, edited or drafted UN Shadow Reports for various Treaty Bodies. Topics: Chad (women’s rights), USA (Hurricane Katrina, sexuality discrimination), Zambia (freedom of expression), Panama (indigenous people), Chile (sexuality discrimination), Australia (women’s rights), Nepal (“Untouchable” Dalits). Oral Committee presentations.
· Presentation at US Embassies & U.S. State Department EducationUSA affiliates in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Cameroon, People’s Republic of China, Ghana, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Liberia, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand (Chiang Mai & Bangkok), Singapore, Uganda, Oman, United Kingdom, Uruguay, & Vietnam. Published on websites including at US Embassy Vientiane, Laos. (“American Legal Education: Studying Law in the U.S.” Videotaped to disseminate in China. Presented orally &/or delivered in print. On Video in U.K.) Video-link to EducationUSA Advisors in 19 South & East African countries (October 2012).
· Helped train Middle East Judges & Lawyers on international humanitarian and criminal law – “International Criminal Court and the Arab World” (Amman, Jordan - participants from throughout Middle East)
· Hosted dozens of overseas dignitaries through the U.S. Department of State Visitors Program.
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More background information about Professor Edwards is below.
George E. Edwards is the C.M. Gray Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is also Faculty Director (Founding) of the school’s Program in International Human Rights Law, which was on 25 July 2011 awarded Special Consultative Status with and Accreditation to the United Nations Economic & Social Council (UN-ECOSOC).
Professor Edwards is Founding Faculty Director (former) of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Track in International Human Rights Law (resignation effective Spring 2011), and Executive Chair (Inaugural / Former) of the Graduate Law Programs. He is an Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University, Bloomington. He has received numerous Teaching, Research and Civic Engagement Awards from Indiana University since 1999. He teaches International Human Rights Law; International Legal Transactions; Public International Law; and International Criminal Law.
He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and Association Editor of the Harvard Journal of International Law. He was also a research assistant for a director of the Harvard LL.M. program, and he helped edit an international law book.
Before joining the IU law faculty, he lived for six years in Hong Kong and worked as associate director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong, and lectured at City University of Hong Kong. He also taught for the Law Society of Hong Kong.
From 1987 to 1991, Professor Edwards practiced with the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He served as law clerk to The Honorable Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York. He was Visiting Professor at DePaul College of Law and Stetson College of Law, and Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is Life Member, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
In 2001 Professor Edwards traveled to South America on a Fulbright grant to teach at Universidad de San Pedro, in Peru. For over a decade he was accredited to the United Nations to represent the National Bar Association, and has also represented the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. Currently, he is accredited to the United Nations through the Indiana Law School’s Program in International Human Rights Law he created in 1997. He has taught in, lectured, presented papers, and participated in conferences in dozens of countries around the globe.
As founding director of the Program in International Human Rights Law, Professor Edwards has, since 1997, facilitated and supervised over 175 Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law student summer intern placements at the U.N. and other human rights organizations in over 55 countries on 6 continents. He has supervised approximately a dozen United Nations pro bono reports students and staff researched, drafted and presented to various United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies. Professor Edwards was tendered as an Expert Witness in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Military Commission case against Australian David Hicks. He and students provided research assistance for the defense of Mr. Hicks and for Mr. Omar Khadr, who is a Canadian who was 15 when taken to Guantanamo Bay.
Professor Edwards is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF) Fellow, and has served as elected Member of the House of Representatives of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The National Bar Association honored him with the Ronald H. Brown Award for International Distinction. In 2012, he was appointed the Center for National Policy Fellow in International Human Rights (Washington, D.C).
Professor Edwards’ is the author of a book titled LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Publishing Company) (624 pages) (September 2011) (www.LLMRoadMap.com) The LL.M. Roadmap website has had hits from over 1,350 different cities in about 144 countries, from many thousands of IP addresses. The book has over 1,700 Twitter Followers (@LLMRoadMap). The LL.M. Roadmap global launch was at Harvard Law School in September 2011, and has debuts and book signings in London, Paris, Louisiana, Vietnam, Washington & many other cities.
Professor Edwards co-edited Volumes 1-5 of the Hong Kong Public Law Reports, and is widely published internationally in international human rights law. He is published in domestic law journals (including at Yale, Harvard, & American University) & overseas (e.g., Netherlands). He has presented papers at U.S. & overseas law conferences in many countries, appeared before United Nations Human Rights Bodies (New York & Geneva), and appeared in domestic & international media (print, TV, radio).
Countries where Professor Edwards lectured, delivered papers, participated at seminars, represented or advised human rights groups include: Kuwait, People’s Republic of China, South Africa, Switzerland, Canada, France, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Liberia, Lithuania, Chile, Peru, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Japan, Kenya, Philippines, Spain, Ghana, Jordan, Korea, Uganda, Vietnam, Oman, South Africa (video-link – 16 October 2012), Iran (via video-link) & Saudi Arabia.
Professor Edwards received a U.S. Department of State (U.S. Information Agency) grant to lecture in Lithuania at a Constitutional Court Conference in Vilnius & at other Lithuanian venues. He has hosted dozens of U.S. Department of State Visitor Program participants from many countries (visiting Indiana). He made an invited presentation for the United Nations Institute for Research & Training (UNITAR) (UN Headquarters, New York)
At Indiana University he has been Board of Faculty Advisors (Member), Indiana International & Comparative Law Review; Faculty Advisor (Inaugural), International Human Rights Law Society & Amnesty International Student Chapter; Elected by Full Faculty: Law School Executive Committee; Campus Faculty Council; and Appointed: Titled Professorships Committee (2007 - ); Alliance of Distinguished & Titled Professors. He has been appointed as J.D. “Hooder” at Commencement Ceremonies, and voted by Master of Laws (LL.M.) students as LL.M. Commencement Hooder, and appointed as Commencement Marshall.
Testimony & Affidavits; Human Rights Group Advocacy; Judicial Training; Other Pro Bono
· Guantanamo Bay, U.S. Military Commissions.
§ Tendered as expert witness in case of David Hicks, an Australian “detainee”. Expert Affidavits in 2004 & 2005.
In 2007, traveled to Guantanamo as legal advisor on 1st completed military commission since World War II.
§ Consulted on case of Mr. Omar Khadr, a Canadian taken to Guantanamo Bay at age 15.
· Breaker Morant - Work on petition to HRH the Queen of England for 1902 war crimes conviction of Australian.
· Slobodan Milosevic. Supervised student research teams on Milosevic case (before UN Tribunal - The Hague - ICTY).
· Dragan Vasiljkovic (Daniel Snedden). Extradition case from Australia to Croatia -- war crimes charges.
· Invited Expert to Chatham House & Atlantic Council Transatlantic Dialogue on International Law (2010) (London)
· Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) Panel Testimony (Prepared Government briefing papers for Amnesty Int’l.)
· Represented Human Rights Watch/Asia as expert trial observer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
· Published reports with The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (Human Rights First).
· United Nations Conference Delegate (& Related): UN Diplomatic Conf. of Plenipotentiaries on Int’l Criminal Court (Rome ‘98); Vienna + 5 Global Forum (Ottawa ‘98); World Conference Against Racism, Race Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance (WCAR) (Durban ‘01); WCAR Prep Com (Santiago ‘00); Durban Review Conference (Geneva ‘09); International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference (Kampala, Uganda, 2010).
· Delegate (NGO) at UN: Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Council, Treaty Bodies, DPI, Forum on Forests.
· United Nations accreditation (via NBA & PIHRL) in New York, Geneva, Vienna, Amman (Jordan), & Bangkok.
· Trained judges at Indiana Judicial Center (on International Law & International Human Rights Law).
· Supervised, edited or drafted UN Shadow Reports for various Treaty Bodies. Topics: Chad (women’s rights), USA (Hurricane Katrina, sexuality discrimination), Zambia (freedom of expression), Panama (indigenous people), Chile (sexuality discrimination), Australia (women’s rights), Nepal (“Untouchable” Dalits). Oral Committee presentations.
· Presentation at US Embassies & U.S. State Department EducationUSA affiliates in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Cameroon, People’s Republic of China, Ghana, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Liberia, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand (Chiang Mai & Bangkok), Singapore, Uganda, Oman, United Kingdom, Uruguay, & Vietnam. Published on websites including at US Embassy Vientiane, Laos. (“American Legal Education: Studying Law in the U.S.” Videotaped to disseminate in China. Presented orally &/or delivered in print. On Video in U.K.) Video-link to EducationUSA Advisors in 19 South & East African countries (October 2012).
· Helped train Middle East Judges & Lawyers on international humanitarian and criminal law – “International Criminal Court and the Arab World” (Amman, Jordan - participants from throughout Middle East)
· Hosted dozens of overseas dignitaries through the U.S. Department of State Visitors Program.
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Professor Edwards is donating all personal profits from sale of the first edition of LL.M. Roadmap to the International Law Students Association (ILSA) (www.ILSA.org), which administers the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (White & Case) in 500 law schools in about 100 countries on 6 continents.
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