{"id":13,"date":"2016-08-15T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/richardson\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2016-09-23T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:45:23","slug":"about-henry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/richardson\/about-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"About Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20140924_Richardson_H_002-300x400\"Henry J. Richardson III has been Professor of Law at Temple University\u2019s Beasley School of Law since 1983. He is widely published, in the American Journal of International Law and other journals, on a variety of topics in international law, including its relationship to African-Americans, development in Africa, and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa; international protection of human rights; and self-determination. Professor Richardson has also made foundational contributions to international legal theory, particularly critical race theory and TWAIL. He has been a leader at the American Society of International Law along several dimensions, always with an eye to establishing equity for people and issues of color. Professor Richardson teaches courses on international law, constitutional law and foreign policy, international human rights and international organizations.<\/p>\n

Professor Richardson is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he studied with Myres McDougal and began a lifelong scholarly engagement with the New Haven School. Upon graduation in 1966, Professor Richardson served as International Legal Advisor to the Government of Malawi for nearly three years. He advised the newly independent state on inherited treaties and a range of southern African international legal negotiations and questions. Professor Richardson then became Faculty Africanist at Law at the University of California at Los Angeles, earning an LL.M. degree with a focus on international law and development in Africa. From 1971-1977, he was the first black faculty member at the Indiana University Law School (Bloomington) and visited at Northwestern Law School from 1973-74.\u00a0\u00a0 From 1977-79, he served on the National Security Council Staff in charge of African Policy and United Nations issues in President Carter\u2019s administration. Professor Richardson was subsequently the Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to the Congressional Black Caucus and an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the Department of Defense. He has subsequently consulted and participated in African educational, human rights, and international law advisory and monitoring missions. Professor Richardson was also active in several anti-apartheid groups relative to international law.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Professor Richardson was the first American scholar named Honorary Life Member of the American Society of International Law.\u00a0 In 2014, he was elected to the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.\u00a0 In 2008, Professor Richardson published The Origin of African-American Interests in International Law.\u00a0 In 1995 and 2006, he received the Friel-Scanlan prize for best faculty scholarship.\u00a0 Professor Richardson has also received the AALS Clyde Ferguson Award for teaching, mentoring and scholarship.\u00a0 He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a past holder of several offices in the American Society of International Law, including Vice President and Counsellor, and a founding member of both the National Conference of Black Lawyers and the Blacks in ASIL Task Force.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

LL.M., UCLA School of Law
\nLL.B., Yale Law School
\nA.B., Antioch College
\nCertificat en Histoire, Universite de Besancon, France<\/p>\n

Publications
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  1. From Birmingham\u2019s Jail to Beyond the Riverside Church: Martin Luther King\u2019s Global Authority<\/em>, Howard L.J. 2015 (forthcoming)<\/li>\n
  2. Critical Perspectives on Intervention<\/em>, 29 Maryland J.Int\u2019l Law 12 (2014)<\/li>\n
  3. Africa and the Future of International Criminal Justice<\/em> 81 (V.O. Nmehielle ed., Eleven 2012)<\/li>\n
  4. The Danger of the New Legal Colonialism<\/em>, 104th<\/sup> Am Soc\u2019y Int\u2019l L. 393 (2011)<\/li>\n
  5. Mitchell Lecture<\/em>, The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law<\/em> Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2011<\/li>\n
  6. Two Treaties, and Global Influences of the American Civil Rights Movements, Through the Black International Tradition <\/em>J. Soc. Pol\u2019y & L. 59 (2010)<\/li>\n
  7. Review of Dudziak, Exporting American Dreams<\/em>, 28 L. & Hist. Rev. 558 (2010)<\/li>\n
  8. Obama\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize Advances the African American International Tradition<\/em>, NBA NEWS BULLETIN, Dec. 18, 2009 (op-ed).<\/li>\n
  9. Dedication to Dean Robert J. Reinstein<\/em>, 80 TEMPLE L. REV. 627 (2007).<\/li>\n
  10. The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law<\/em> (Carolina Academic Press 2008).<\/li>\n
  11. Patrolling the Resource Transfer Frontier: Economic Rights and the South African Constitutional Court\u2019s Contributions to International Justice<\/em>, 9 African Stud. Q. (Fall 2007).<\/li>\n
  12. Martin Luther King, Jr. as an International Human Rights Leader<\/em>, 52 Vill. L. Rev. 471 (2007).<\/li>\n
  13. Imperatives of Culture and Race for Understanding Human Rights Law<\/em>, 52 BUFF. L. REV. 511 (2004) (review of HUMAN RIGHTS: A POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CRITIQUE, by Makau Mutua<\/em>).<\/li>\n
  14. The Danger of Oligarchy within the Pan-Africanist Authority of the African Union<\/em>, 13 TRANSNAT\u2019L L. & CONTEMP. PROBS. 255 (2003).<\/li>\n
  15. S. Hegemony, Race, and Oil in Deciding United Nations Security Council Resolution<\/em> 1441 on Iraq<\/em>, 17 Temple Int\u2019l & Comp. L.J. 27 (2003).<\/li>\n
  16. Reverend Leon Sullivan\u2019s Principles, Race and International Law: A Comment<\/em>, 15 Temple Int\u2019l. & Comp. L.J. 55 (2001).<\/li>\n
  17. Symposium, A Critical Thought on Self Determination for East Timor and Kosovo<\/em>, 14 TEMP. INT\u2019L. & COMP. L.J. 101 (2001).<\/li>\n
  18. Symposium, Excluding Race Strategies from International Legal History: The Self-executing Treaty Doctrine and the Southern Africa Tripartite Agreement<\/em>, 45 VILL. L. REV. 1091 (2000).<\/li>\n
  19. Dinner and Self-Determination<\/em>, in CRITICAL RACE THEORY: HISTORIES, CROSSROADS, DIRECTIONS Critical Race Theory Conference, Yale Law School, Nov. 1999 (Yale University Press).<\/li>\n
  20. Book Review, 93 AM. J. OF INT\u2019L L. 988 (1999); S. Akweenda, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE PROTECTION OF NAMIBIAN\u2019S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY: BOUNDARIES AND TERRITORIAL CLAIMS, (Spring, 1999).<\/li>\n
  21. The UN Secretary-General Drops in on Saddam Hussein: A Few Reflections<\/em>, TEMPLE INTERNATIONAL LAW SOCIETY NEWSLETTER, Spring, 1998.<\/li>\n
  22. Tribute to Myres McDougal<\/em>, YALE LAW REPORT (Fall, 1998).<\/li>\n
  23. Commentary, The Execution of Angel Breard By the United States: Violating an Order of theInternational Court of Justice<\/em>, 12 TEMP. INT\u2019L & COMP. L.J. 121 (1998).<\/li>\n
  24. John M. Lindsey, Professor Emeritus, 1932-1998<\/em>, 12 TEMP. INT\u2019L & COMP. L.J. I (1998).<\/li>\n
  25. THE PHILADELPHIA SUNDAY SUN, Ouster of Boutros-Ghali a Painful Loss to United Nations<\/em> January 12, 1997, p.8.<\/li>\n
  26. Failed States. Self-Determination, and Preventive Diplomacy: Colonialist Nostalgia & Democratic Expectations<\/em>, 10 TEMPLE INT\u2019L & COMP. L.J., p.1 (1996) (Winner of Friel\u2014Scanlan Award, 1977, for best Faculty Scholarship).<\/li>\n
  27. Recent Issues in International Human Rights Law for Africa; African Regional Integration and <\/em>Human Rights: Potential Problems; Regionalism in Africa<\/em>; Papers, all published in PROCEEDINGS OF THE 89TH ANNUAL MEETING. THE AMERICAN\u00a0 SOCIETY\u00a0 OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, December 1995, at p. 484,500, and 551 respectively.<\/li>\n
  28. \u201cThe Constitutive Fiction of Neutrality in United Nations Peacekeeping<\/em>\u201d, Paper presented in August 1995 at the African Society of International and Comparative Law, South Africa. Published in the Proceedings of the African Society, 1995.<\/li>\n
  29. \u201cINTERNATIONAL LAW: A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE\u201d by John Dugard; Book Review, 89 A.S.I.L. 650 (1995).<\/li>\n
  30. \u201cAfrican Americans and International Law: For Professor Goler Teal Butcher, with Appreciation<\/em>\u201d, 37 HOWARD L.J. 217 (1994).<\/li>\n
  31. Book Review, 88 A.J.I.L. 852 (1994);\u201cHUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER\u201d, by Chandra Muzaffar<\/li>\n
  32. The Effects of the New World Order on the Third World<\/em>, (Chairman\u2019s Remarks), proceedings of the 87th Annual Meeting, American Society of Int\u2019l. Law, at 37 (Dec. 1993).<\/li>\n
  33. \u201cInternational Law Implications for the Transition in South Africa<\/em>\u201d, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of The American Society of International Law (1992).<\/li>\n
  34. \u201cRecent Struggles for Democracy Under Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions<\/em>\u201d, 6 TEMPLE INT\u2019L. & COMP. L.J. 13 (1993).<\/li>\n
  35. International Law Implications for the Transition in South Africa<\/em>\u201d, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of The American Society of International Law (1992).<\/li>\n
  36. \u201cRecent Struggles for Democracy Under Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions<\/em>\u201d, 6 Temple Int\u2019l. & Comp. L.J. 13 (1993).<\/li>\n
  37. \u201cThe International Implications of the Los Angeles Riots<\/em>\u201d, 70 DEN. U.L. REV. 213 (1993).<\/li>\n
  38. \u201cThe Gulf Crisis and Afro-American interests Under International Law<\/em>\u201d, 87 AM. J. INT\u2019L. L. 42 (Jan. 1993).<\/li>\n
  39. \u201cInternational Law and the Continuation of Sanctions Against South Africa<\/em>,\u201d 3 TEMPLE INT\u2019L. & COMP. L.J. 249 (1989).<\/li>\n
  40. \u201cThe Price of Namibian Independence<\/em>\u201d, FOCUS (March 1989), Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.<\/li>\n
  41. \u201cThe Right to Food: the International Human Rights Response<\/em>\u201d, HOWARD L.J. (1987).<\/li>\n
  42. Comment, \u201cDivestment of the Stock Portfolio of the (American) Society (of International Law)<\/em>\u201d, 81 J,I.L. 744 (1987).<\/li>\n
  43. Participant, Founding Conference, New York, 1987, of U.S. \u2013 Soviet Lawyers for a New Organization of International Lawyers for Disarmament.<\/li>\n
  44. \u201cThe Obligation to Withdraw Recognition from Pretoria as the Government of South Africa<\/em>\u201d, 1 TEMPLE INT. & COMP. L . J . (1987).<\/li>\n
  45. \u201cPerceptions of Apartheid in South Africa<\/em>\u201d, THE TEMPLE REVIEW, Winter 1986.<\/li>\n
  46. \u201cThe Advent of the Temple International and Comparative Law Journal<\/em>\u201d, 1 TEMPLE INT. & COMP. L.J. 1 (1985).<\/li>\n
  47. \u201cConstitutive Questions in the Negotiations for Namibian Independence<\/em>\u201d, 78 A.J.I.L. 76 (1984).<\/li>\n
  48. \u201cS. Policy Toward Namibia: Weaknesses and Contradictions<\/em>,\u201d IV THE JURIST 18 (1982).<\/li>\n
  49. \u201cSelf Determination, International Law and the South African Bantustan Policy<\/em>,\u201d 17 COLUMBIA OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW 185 (1978).<\/li>\n
  50. Consulting Editor, BLACK LAW J., Issue on International Law, Summer 1977.<\/li>\n
  51. \u201cBlack People, Technocracy and Legal Process: Thoughts, Fears and Goals<\/em>,\u201d in PUBLIC POLICY FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY STRATEGIES AND PERSPECTIVES, Barnett and Hefner, eds. (1976).<\/li>\n
  52. Review, Syz, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS<\/em> (1974), in AMER, L INT\u2019L LAW, January (1976).<\/li>\n
  53. \u201cBetween Law and Justice: Professor Bittker\u2019s Case for Black Reparations<\/em>,\u201d 50 INDIANA L.J. 517 (1975).<\/li>\n
  54. \u201cBlack Professors and the Integrity of American Legal Education<\/em>,\u201d BLACK L.J. IV, NO. 3 (1975).<\/li>\n
  55. \u201cReflections on Education in International Law in Africa<\/em>\u201d DENVER J.OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY, VOL. 4, NO. 2, p. 199 (1974).<\/li>\n
  56. Review \u201cAfrican Penal Systems<\/em>\u201d, (Alan Milner ed.) 47 IND.L.J. 593 (1972).<\/li>\n
  57. \u201cTowards International Institutions of Black Communication,\u201d UFAHAMU, (U.C.L.A.), Spring 1971.<\/li>\n
  58. \u201cForeign Policy Decision Making and Social Change in Malawi<\/em>,\u201d in THE ADMINISTRATION OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN AFRICA, E. P. Morgan ed. 1971.<\/li>\n
  59. \u201cCrossroads for Law in Africa<\/em>,\u201d (with Paul 0. Proehl) 18 UCLA L.R. 219 (1970).<\/li>\n
  60. \u201cSpeculations on the Relevance of International Law to the Needs of Black Southern Africa<\/em>,\u201d UFAHAMU, Spring 1970.<\/li>\n
  61. \u201cMalawi: Between Black and White Africa<\/em>,\u201d AFRICA REPORT,\u00a0 Spring 1970.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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