President

Judge Christopher Weeramantry - Sri Lanka
Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research
Email: wicper1@sltnet.lk

Vice-Presidents

Phon van den Biesen - Netherlands
VAN DEN BIESEN BOESVELD ADVOCATEN
Email: phonvandenbiesen@vandenbiesen.com
website: vandenbiesenboesveld.nl

P.N. Bhagwati - India
Email:

 

Bev Tollefson Delong - USA
Lawyers for Social Responsibility
Email: bevdelong@shaw.ca

Stig Gustafsson - Sweden
Swedish Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Email:

 

Fredrik Heffermehl - Norway
Norsk Medlemsgruppe IALANA
Email:

Joachim Lau - Italy
Italian Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Email: lau@elledi.it

Simon Reeves - New Zealand
Aotearoa Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Email:

Alexander Sukharev - Russia
Research Institute of Law and Order Problems of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation
Email: niigp@msk.rsnet.ru

Kenji Urata - Japan
Email: urata@waseda.jp

Carlos Vargas Pizaro - Costa Rica
Email:

 

Peter Weiss - USA
675 Third Avenue, Suite 315
New York, NY 10017-5704 USA
Email:

 

John Burroughs - USA
Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
675 Third Avenue, Suite 315
New York, NY 10017-5704 USA
Email:

John Burroughs, J.D., Ph.D., is executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy in New York (www.lcnp.org ) and director of the UN office of IALANA. Dr. Burroughs represents LCNP in Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review proceedings and the United Nations. In 1998, he represented LCNP/IALANA at the negotiations on the International Criminal Court in Rome, and in 1995, he was the nongovernmental legal coordinator at the hearings on nuclear weapons before the International Court of Justice. He is co-editor and contributor, Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis, and Paths to Peace (2007); co-editor and contributor, Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (2003); and author of The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice (1998). He has published articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the World Policy Journal. An interview with Dr. Burroughs, "The Disarmament Debate: The Fate of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," is in the Harvard International Review, Summer 2005. He is an adjunct professor of international law at Rutgers Law School, Newark.

 

Secretary

Peter Becker - Germany
IALANA-Sektion Germany
Email: peter.becker@bbh-marburg.de

Treasurer

Otto Jäckel - Germany
Rechtsanwalt
Fachanwalt fuer Arbeitsrecht und Verwaltungsrecht
Email:

International Consultant

Alyn Ware
PO Box 23257
Cable Car Lane, Wellington
Aotearoa-New Zealand
Email: alyn@lcnp.org

Alyn Ware is a peace educator and a consultant for peace and disarmament. He is currently Director of the Peace Foundation Wellington Office (Aotearoa-New Zealand), Global Coordinator of the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, Director of Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace and Consultant for the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. Alyn was Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy from 1992 – 1999 during which time he coordinated the World Court Project, an initiative which led to a ruling from the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. He was also one of the coordinators for the drafting of a model treaty on the abolition of nuclear weapons (Nuclear Weapons Convention) which has been circulated by the United Nations. Alyn is a Member of the New Zealand Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control and has been on government delegations to the 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and the UNESCO Ministers of Education Conference in Geneva 2001 at which he was Head of Delegation.

 

UN Liaison

Saul Mendlovitz
Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and World Order Studies Emeritus
Center for Global Change and Governance
Rutgers University
Email:

Professor Mendlovitz obtained his B.A. from Syracuse University, and his M.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago. He joined the Rutgers faculty in 1956. Professor Mendlovitz is the founding director of the World Order Models Project and chairman of the International Steering Committee of Global Action to Prevent War. Global Action is a transnational coalition of individuals, civil society organizations, and states promoting a comprehensive political and legal program which aims over the next three to four decades to drastically reduce armed violence, war, internal armed conflict, and genocide. He holds membership on various boards, including the Arms Control Association, Global Education Associates, the Law and Humanities Institute, and the America-Israel Council for Israeli Palestinian Peace.
Professor Mendlovitz has written and spoken extensively on issues relating to international law and to the promotion of a just world order. His publications include 10 volumes, many in collaboration with Professor Richard Falk, Princeton University. Recent articles include “Defensive Security” in War or Health, with M. Datan (Zed Books); “Basic U.S. Commitment to Defend South Vietnam War Was Unlawful Under Both International and Constitutional Law,” in The Real Lessons of the Vietnam War (Carolina Academic Press); and “A UN Constabulary to Enforce the Law on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity,” with J. Fousek, reprinted in The International Legal System in Quest of Equity and Universality (Cluwer Law International). His most recent books are Preferred Futures for the United Nations (Transnational Publishers) and A Reader on Second Assembly & Parliamentary Proposals (Center for UN Reform Education). Professor Mendlovitz teaches International Law and a Just World Order and Law and Humanities.

 

Members

Akihiko Kimijima - Japan
Assoc Professor of Law
Haokkai Gakuen University
Email: kimijima@ir.ritsumei.ac.jp

Fabio Marcelli - Italy
Association of Italian Democratic Lawyers
Email: fabio.marcelli@isgi.cnr.it

Nasila Rembe - South Africa
UNESCO ‘Oliver Tambo’ Chair of Human Rights
University of Fort Hare
Email: nsrembe@ufh.ac.za

Meindert Sterling - Netherlands
Dutch Association of Lawyers for Peace
Email: meindert.stelling@planet.nl

Alan Webb - New Zealand
Email:

 

Dieter Deiseroth - Germany
Email:

 

Associate Member

 

George Farebrother - UK
Secretary, World Court Project UK
http://wcp.gn.apc.org/

Email: