Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for a New Administration

The Center on Law and Security and Milbank Tweed Forum present:    

Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for a New Administration

featuring

Ambassador Christopher R. Hill

Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies

University of Denver

and

Dr. Charles A. Kupchan 

Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow

Council on Foreign Relations
moderated by

Professor Sujit Choudhry
Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law
New York University School of Law

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

12:45 – 2:00 p.m.

NYU School of Law

Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
New York, NY

The video of this event is available, click here to watch.

Ambassador Christopher Robert Hill served as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq from April 2009 until August 2010. He joined the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in September 2010. He is a career member of the Foreign Service whose prior assignment was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He also served as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. On February 14, 2005, he was named as the Head of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Previously he has served as U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2000-2004), Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia (1996-1999) and Special Envoy to Kosovo (1998-1999). He also served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Southeast European Affairs in the National Security Council.

Ambassador Hill received the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award for his contributions as a member of the U.S. negotiating team in the Bosnia peace settlement, and was a recipient of the Robert S. Frasure Award for Peace Negotiations for his work on the Kosovo crisis. Ambassador Hill graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine with a B.A. in Economics. He received a Master’s degree from the Naval War College in 1994. He speaks Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian.
Dr. Charles A. Kupchan is Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also professor of international affairs in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University.  Dr. Kupchan was director for European affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the policy planning staff. Prior to government service, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University.

Dr. Kupchan received a BA from Harvard University and MPhil and DPhil degrees from Oxford University. He has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, Columbia University’s Institute for War and Peace Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. During 2006-2007, he was the Henry A. Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Sujit Choudhry is Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law, where he directs the Constitutional Transitions Clinic.  Professor Choudhry is an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law and comparative constitutional development.  His work also addresses basic methodological questions in comparative constitutional law.  He sits on the Board of Editors of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, is a member of the Editorial Board of the Constitutional Court Review (South Africa), and is on the Board of Advisers for the Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law.  In 2010, he was one of four Canadians to receive the Trudeau Fellowship, the Canadian equivalent of the MacArthur awards.

Professor Choudhry holds law degrees from Oxford, Toronto, and Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar, served as law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada, and was a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions.