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The Future of International Law
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Salzburg Cutler Law Fellows Program

The Future of International Law

So-called “super lawyer” Lloyd N. Cutler may have passed away in 2005, but the legacy of the long-serving Salzburg Global Chairman lives on through the Cutler Law Fellows Program for the brightest young legal minds.

“Lloyd believed passionately in the role that law plays in nation-building, and in the roles lawyers could play in facilitating solutions to the world’s most pressing problems,” Salzburg President Stephen L. Salyer stated in his opening remarks of the inaugural session of the Cutler Law Fellows Program, named in honor of the so-called “last super lawyer” Lloyd N. Cutler.

Besides being a top lawyer and counselor to two US presidents, Cutler made a point of bringing together international judges and young practitioners during his years as Salzburg Global Chairman. Many successful lawyers across the world recall their Salzburg experience as highly influential in developing their legal perspective, global networks and career path.

This legacy continues through the Cutler Law Fellows Program. The program, launched in 2012, is creating an elite group of young lawyers, poised to rise quickly to positions of leadership in international law, business and public service. It now annually brings together 45 of the best young legal minds from ten of the top US law schools (Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Penn, Stanford, Virginia, and Yale) to encourage the careers of this exceptional group of lawyers.

Originally just a one-day session, the program has since expanded into a weekend-long program, based in Washington, DC, incorporating lectures by leading faculty from partner schools and renowned practitioners such as international jurist, Richard Goldstone, and former head of the WTO appellate body, James Bacchus, with in-depth working groups, and networking events with highlevel faculty and sponsoring law firms.

Cutler Fellows also engage in pre-session work, writing papers on the use of force, humanitarian law and human rights; international economic, investment and monetary law; international trade, antitrust and anti-corruption law; international courts, institutions and international relations; and rule of law and comparative constitutionalism. These ideas are further refined through peer and faculty review in group work for possible publication in leading law journals.

The Cutler Law Fellows become part of the wider Salzburg Global Fellowship, and, as such, the program includes an invitation to the annual Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law (See BELOW), offering them access to a global network of peers and senior academics and practitioners – necessary for successful careers in international law today.

Ultimately, the Cutler Law Fellows Program will build a network of outstanding young lawyers who, much like Cutler himself, will go on to advise and mentor others, and help shape international law and legal institutions for decades to come.

For further information, please see: www.SalzburgGlobal.org/go/CutlerFellows

WILLIAM BURKE-WRIGHT and Chris Brummer
William Burke-Wright law professor at Penn and chair of the Cutler Law Fellows Program with faculty member Chris Brummer of Georgetown
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WILLIAM BURKE-WRIGHT and Chris Brummer
Tom Ginsburg
Tom Ginsburg Cutler Law Fellows Program faculty member and law professor at Chicago
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Tom Ginsburg
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR (center) with (left to right) B. THOMAS MANSBACH, BARONESS HELENA KENNEDY, ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER AND STEPHEN L. SALYER
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SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR with (left to right) B. THOMAS MANSBACH, BARONESS HELENA KENNEDY, ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER AND STEPHEN L. SALYER

Super Lawyer

Annual Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law

Lloyd N. Cutler (1917–2005), the last “super lawyer,” had a brilliant legal career as a founder of law firm, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, and as White House Counsel to two US presidents. He was a long-time champion of Salzburg Global Seminar, serving as chair of the Board of Directors for a decade. Today, Salzburg Global remembers him not only for his intellectual brilliance, but for his commitment to advancing respect for the law as a tool for resolving the tough issues of our times. As a lasting tribute to Cutler’s legacy, Salzburg Global hosts the Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law in Washington, DC, annually. Following on from the inaugural speaker, international renowned jurist, Richard Goldstone, the lecture series features a distinguished speaker on a vital legal issue of international interest.

The Honorable Harold Hongju Koh, one of the USA’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law and human rights, was invited to deliver the second annual lecture in 2011 on the topic “An American International Law?” Koh was most recently the legal adviser of the US Department of State, a position he held from June 2009 until January 2013. He is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.

In 2012, Baroness Helena Kennedy and Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter led a conversation at the US Supreme Court for the third lecture. Hosted by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the main topic was the use of drones as a means to national security, as well as secrecy versus transparency, detention and torture, and the current state of international human rights law.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered the fourth annual lecture in November 2013, entitled “The Magna Carta.”

In a break with tradition, the fifth annual lecture will be delivered by nonlawyer Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, and hosted by associate US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in November 2014.

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