The Blaine Sloan Lecture honors Blaine Sloan, Professor Emeritus of International Law and Organization at Pace Law School, for developing the international law studies program at Pace.

A member of the United Nations Legal Office for three decades and Director of the General Legal Division, Professor Sloan has contributed significantly to the development of private and public international law. He represented the Secretary General at the 1978 U.N. Conference on the Carriage of Goods by Sea; at the sessions from 1969-1978 of the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); and at the 1966-1978 sessions of the Legal Sub-Committee on the Peaceful uses of Outer Space. His U.N. service involved him in that organization’s work on Vietnam, relief for Palestinian refugees, peacekeeping in the Middle East, the U.N. Commission on Korea, and as Legal Advisor to Security Council sessions in Africa and Latin America.

PREVIOUS BLAINE SLOAN LECTURERS

2006: 
JOSÉ E. ALVAREZ
The Promise and Perils of International Organizations

2005: 
JUDGE PHILIPPE KIRSCH
The International Criminal Court and the Enforcement of International Justice

2004: 
PROFESSOR BARBARA STARK
Women and Globalization: A World of Change

2003: 
PROFESSOR MICHAEL GREENHALGH BRIDGE
Uniformity and the Law of International Sale

2002:
 PROFESSOR GEORGE ANNAS
Human Rights and Health in a World of Inequality

2001: 
PROFESSOR HAROLD MAIER
The Cuban Democracy Act: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?

2000: 
M. CHERIF BASSIUONI
International Humanitarian Law

1999: 
THE HONORABLE DAVID JOHN SCHEFFER
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

1998:
 THE HONORABLE RAMSEY CLARK
The Legality and the Effects of the United Nations Sanctions Against Iraq

1997:
BENJAMIN FERENCZ
International Criminal Courts: The Legacy of Nuremberg

1996:
THE HONORABLE RONALD ST. J. MacDONALD, O.C., Q.C., LL.D.
Solidarity in International Public Law

1995: 
IAN BROWNLIE
The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes in Practice

1994: 
PROFESSOR DAVID O'KEEFFE
The Constitutionalization of Europe and Legal Issues of the Maastricht Treaty

1993: 
HIS EXCELLENCY STEPHEN M. SCHWEBEL
The Performance and Prospects for the International Court of Justice

1993:
THE HONORABLE SHOSHANA NETANYAHU
The Supreme Court Of Israel: A Safeguard of The Rule of Law

1992:
W. MICHAEL REISMAN
International Election Observation

1991: 
LOUIS HENKIN
Congress, The President and the United Nations

1990: 
JOHN N. HAZARD
New Thinking in Soviet Approaches to International Politics and Law

1989: 
SCAR SCHACHTER
Just War and Human Rights

1988: 
BLAINE SLOAN
The United Nations Charter as a Constitution