Ruth Wedgwood

Ruth Wedgwood (née Glushien) holds the Edward B. Burling Chair in International Law.

Family origins

She is the daughter of the lawyer Morris P. Glushien and his wife Anne S. Glushien (née Williams), an artist and translator. In 1982 she married the physician Josiah F. Wedgwood, son of Ralph J. Wedgwood , grandson of Josiah Wedgwood V and great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E3D61038F933A05756C0A964948260] .

Current career

She is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman of Research and Studies for the American Society of International Law; a member of the policy advisory group of the United Nations Association; an adviser to the Department of Defense on the issue of military tribunals in response to the September 11 crisis; a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law and the National Security Study Group of the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security in the 21st Century; on the board of editors for the American Journal of International Law and the editorial advisory board of the World Policy Journal of the New School University; and she is a board member of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. Wedgwood also teaches at Johns Hopkins University's Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Background and education

* U.S. member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee
* Member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee for International Law, the Defense Policy Board and the CIA Historical Review Panel
* U.S. public delegate to Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Warsaw Human Dimension Meeting
* Independent expert for International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
* Former professor at Yale Law School
* Director of studies at the Hague Academy for International Law in the Netherlands
* Visiting professor at University of Paris I (Sorbonne)
* Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy and Charles H. Stockton Professor at the U.S. Naval War College
* Former member of the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security in the 21st Century
* Senior fellow for international organizations at the Council on Foreign Relations
* Chief of staff to the head of the criminal division in the U.S. Department of Justice, chairing the attorney general’s working group on informant and undercover investigative guidelines
* Served as federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York (investigations and trials of public corruption, weapons smuggling, racketeering, landlord arson and espionage)
* Vice president of American Society of International Law
* Vice president of International Law Association-American Branch
* Board of editors for American Journal of International Law, World Policy Journal and American Interest
* Director of Freedom House and member of the advisory council of National Interest
* Served as law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court and as executive editor of the Yale Law Journal
* Commentator for BBC, NPR and PBS
* J.D., Yale University

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