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About Ms. Edith Brown Weiss
Ms. Brown Weiss is an outstanding legal
scholar who has taught and published widely on issues of
international law and global policies, including environmental and
compliance issues. She is the Francis Cabell Brown Professor of
International Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she has
been on the faculty since 1978. Before Georgetown, she was a
professor at Princeton University. Ms. Brown Weiss has won many
prizes for her work, including the Elizabeth Haub prize from the
Free University of Brussels and the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for international environmental law,
the American Bar Association Award to an individual for
distinguished achievements in Environmental Law and Policy, 2003,
and many awards for her books and articles. She served as President
of the American Society of International Law and as Associate
General Counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where
she established the Division of International Law. She is a member
of many editorial boards, including those of the American Journal of
International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law. Ms.
Brown Weiss has been a board member, trustee, or advisor for the
Japanese Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, the Cousteau
Society, the Center for International Environmental Law, and the
National Center for Atmospheric Research, among others. Ms. Brown
Weiss has been a Special Legal Advisor to the North American
Commission on Environmental Cooperation. She has been a member of
the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Commission on Geosciences,
Environment, and Resources; the Water Science and Technology Board;
and the Committee on Sustainable Water Supplies in the Middle East.
She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the Council
on Foreign Relations, and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law.
Ms. Brown Weiss received a bachelor's of arts degree from Stanford
University with Great Distinction, an LL.B. (J.D.) from Harvard Law
School, a Ph.D. in political science from the University of
California at Berkeley, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from
Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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