Professor, law school, NYU
1994 Read Medal Recipient

B.A., LL.B. (UBC), LL.M. (Harvard), S.J.D. (Harvard)

A leader in the field of International law, Professor Franck earned his law degrees in Canada and joined the faculty of the New York University School of Law in 1960. The Director of the Center for International Studies from 1965 to 2002, he is currently the Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Emeritus. He served as Director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace™s International Law Program (1973-79). He has also undertaken visiting professorships at Stanford Law School, University of East Africa, York University, Princeton™s Woodrow Wilson School, and the Hague Academy of International Law. Professor Franck acted as Legal Advisor or Counsel to a number of foreign governments, including Kenya, El Salvador, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serving as an Advocate before the International Court of Justice, he successfully represented Chad and represented Bosnia in a suit brought against Serbia under the Genocide Convention. He served on the Department of State Advisory Committee on international Law (1986-93). Professor Franck is the author of over 20 books, including, The Empowered Self: Law and Society in the Age of Individualism, Resignation of Protest, for which he received the Christopher Medal. and is a two-time Guggenheim Fellowship winner.

E-mail: thomas.franck@nyu.edu