Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
IN THIS CHAPTER, EACH OF THE TEN LEGAL ADVISERS (IN CHROnological order of service) describes his background and how he came to be appointed to the post. As indicated in their narratives, the approach of each Legal Adviser to the role of international law was distinctly shaped by their previous legal experience, and in some cases by their previous service with the U.S. Government.
Herbert J. Hansell (Carter Administration)
I believe I was nominated to be Legal Adviser at the outset of the Carter Administration because Cyrus Vance and Warren Christopher, President Carter's appointees to be Secretary of State and Deputy Secretary, each had known me and my legal experience quite well.
I had encountered each of them often in the course of our respective legal and civic service careers. Vance and I had worked together in connection with creation of Amtrak, and also in raising funds for Yale Law School, of which we both were graduates. Christopher and I had worked with one another as directors of the lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national organization created at the instance of President Kennedy to involve private-sector lawyers in the pursuit of equality for minorities; and when he was Deputy Attorney General in the Johnson Administration, we also had discussed the possibility of my serving in the Justice Department.
I first learned that Vance and Christopher were considering me as a prospect for nomination as Legal Adviser in a telephone call from one of them in December 1976.
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