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Introductory Remarks by Rebecca Gerome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Rebecca Gerome
Rebecca Gerome*
Affiliation:
Associate, Foley Hoag LLP; Chair, ASIL Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Interest Group.
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Extract

If you follow the news, you might think that international disarmament law and policy have not been successful at preventing atrocities. Tuesday marked the fifth year of the war in Yemen. That same day, a Save the Children hospital was hit by a deadly air strike. Yesterday, the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea informed Congress that North Korea's actions are inconsistent with nuclear disarmament.

Type
Preventing Violence and Atrocities Through International Disarmament Law
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 113 , 2019 , pp. 171 - 183
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

The panel was convened at 3:00 p.m., March 28, 2019, by its moderator, Rebecca Gerome of Foley Hoag LLP, who introduced the panelists: Yasmine Ahmed of Rights Watch (UK); John Burroughs of the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy; Jean Krasno of the City College of New York; and Pranay Vaddi of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.