Lawyers, Law and Civilization

This school is already, largely as a result of its recent accomplishments, an important center for the training of men and women who, in the words spoken at the commencements of my own alma mater, will have a part in administering the wise restraints that make men free. A distinguished lawyer and diplomat, better known as the father of George Plimpton, once observed that the history of civilization is the history of millions of solved conflicts. This, of course, is another way of saying that the history of civilization is the history of the contributions of thousands of smart lawyers. And yet it is also true, as indicated by the story told by the president of your graduating class, Mr. Biondolillo, that lawyers for some reason are not always held in the degree of public esteem we think we deserve. This, no doubt, is why lawyers are always the first to tell jokes at our own expense. But even in our most self-deprecating moods we are justified in assuming that most people regard us as a necessary evil - and here the operative word is necessary. In fact, our society is busily creating a bonanza for lawyers

Introduction

For over ten years, in three Conferences and some nine Conference sessions, the United Nations has grappled with the codification and the creation of the Law of the Sea. Numerous writers have recounted the uniqueness and importance of these negotiations and the difficulties in the path of agreement.... When the negotiations recessed temporarily last September in New York, there was strong sentiment on the part particularly of the smaller countries that significant progress must be made on the outstanding issues during the Eighth Session opening this March to justify the continuation of UNCLOS III. I propose to use this introduction to the San Diego Law Review\u27s annual Symposium on the Law of the Sea to review these outstanding issues and to place them in perspective against the broad range of consensus agreement already recorded

The Watergate Morality

This is an address given at the 97th Annual Convention of the American Bar Association in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 15, 1974

Law of the Sea

This presentation is intended to discuss where the Law of the Sea Conference now stands. Because your bases of information are so varied, some basic background is in order. The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea that is now underway began in 1974. It is the third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea; the first in 1958 developed several conventions, one of the most important of which is the Convention on the Continental Shelf; the second one in 1960 attempted to deal with the high seas and territorial waters, and ended in failure when agreement on a 12-mile territorial sea failed by one vote