Pitt School of Law to Present Lecture by Assistant Secretary-General For Legal Affairs in United Nations' Office of Legal Affairs Oct. 18

PITTSBURGH-Larry D. Johnson, assistant, secretary-general for legal affairs in the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, will deliver a lecture at noon Oct. 18 in the University of Pittsburgh School of Law's Barco Law Building, Alcoa Room, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

The free, public lecture, presented by the School of Law's Center for International Legal Education (CILE), is titled "Advancing International Justice: The Varieties of UN-sponsored Criminal Tribunals." Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit is available through CILE. For information, visit www.law.pitt.edu/academics/programs/cle-calendar.php.

In his position since May 2006, Johnson is responsible for assisting the legal counsel in the overall direction and management of the Office of Legal Affairs and in coordinating legal advice and services to the United Nations as a whole.

Prior to joining the office, Johnson was a professor of global affairs in New York University's Center for Global Affairs and a visiting professor of international law in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Johnson also has been a visiting professor of international law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law and the New England School of Law.

Johnson formerly served as the legal adviser of the International Atomic Energy Agency, from 1997 to 2001, and the Chef de Cabinet, Office of the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, from 2003 to 2005. He joined the United Nations Secretariat in 1971 as an assistant legal officer in the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs and served at headquarters as principal legal officer in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the Office of Legal Affairs from 1989 to 1997.

Johnson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Society of

International Law, and the New York City Association of the Bar.

A native of Lincoln, Neb., Johnson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska, a Juris Doctorate from Harvard University Law School, and a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

For more information, call 412-383-6754.

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