Curriculum Vitae

HURST HANNUM

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 9 Walden Mews

Tufts University Cambridge, MA 02140

Medford, MA 02155 tel.: (617) 868-8372

tel.: (617) 627-2244; fax: (617) 627-3712

email: hurst.hannum@tufts.edu

Experience

January 1990 - present: Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Associate Professor, 1990-96; Academic Dean, 1995-96; sabbatic leave, 1996-97). Courses taught on various aspects of public international law, including human rights, international organizations, nationalism and self-determination, and peacekeeping

Co-Director, Center for Human Rights & Conflict Resolution (2000 - present)

Honored by Tufts University for outstanding faculty achievement (2001) and as recipient of the Allan MacLeod Cormack Award for collaborative student-teacher research (1995)

June - December 1989 and June - August 1990: Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, DC. In-residence fellowship to complete monograph on the right of self-determination and its relevance to resolving conflicts in the post-colonial era

August 1979 - December 1989: Executive Director, Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, Washington, DC. Responsible for management of all aspects of the Institute, including developing grant proposals, managing financial affairs, and supervising student and consultant research; represented the Institute, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with ECOSOC, at various UN meetings in New York and Geneva. Principal author and project director of studies on autonomy, sovereignty, and self-determination in international law; international human rights and U.S. constitutional and criminal law; the right to leave and return; and other public international law issues.

July 1977 - March 1979: Attorney, Institute of International Law and Economic Development, Washington, DC. Research on issues related to the legal and economic problems of newly independent small states, human rights and economic development in Africa, and federal-territorial relations; legal adviser to the Constitutional Conventions of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands

January 1975 - June 1977: Private civil practice in California; part-time consulting and teaching in the wine industry

April 1972 - December 1975: Legal Adviser, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Belfast. Represented individual and organizational clients in major litigation before the European Commission of Human Rights and the United Nations; legal advice on domestic and international problems arising out of the conflict in Northern Ireland

Recent professional activities and current associations

Member of the District of Columbia and California Bars

Member, Board of Directors of United Nations Association of Greater Boston, and advisory boards of Physicians for Human Rights (Boston), International Human Rights Law Group (Washington, DC), International Service for Human Rights (Geneva), and Human Rights Quarterly; former President, Survival International U.S.A., and member, Board of Directors, Amnesty International U.S.A.

Consultant/advisor to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on preparation of a manual on minority rights, promotion of human rights in Afghanistan, and as co-director of human rights training session in Tbilisi, Georgia; UN Department of Political Affairs during negotiations on East Timor; UN Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brcko Law Review Commission; Government of the Faroe Islands; Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue during negotiations between Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement; Kashmir Study Group; Conflict Management Group, regarding situations in Tatarstan, Chechnya, Cyprus, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Kashmir

Consultant to the International Center on Alcohol Policies (Washington, DC) on ethical and corporate responsibility issues related to the alcohol industry, 1996-present

Pro bono work on international legal issues, including serving as co-counsel in cases concerning Northern Ireland and the NATO bombing of Kosovo, brought under the European Convention of Human Rights; preparing amicus curiae briefs for domestic and international litigation; serving as public member of the U.S. delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on the Human Dimension of the C.S.C.E.; participating in fact-finding or other missions to Morocco, South Korea, Russia, and Malaysia; participant in numerous professional workshops/meetings on international law, human rights, and contemporary ethnic conflicts; and Congressional testimony on human rights and refugee issues

Interviewed/quoted about foreign affairs and international legal issues by Reuters, Agence France Presse, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, San Francisco Chronicle, Fresno Bee, Atlanta Constitution, Bloomberg Reports, Financial Times (London), Yomimuri Shimbun (Toyko), El Mercurio (Santiago), ABC News Radio, National Public Radio ("All Things Considered"), BBC/PRI ("The World"), WBUR ("The Connection"), Jones Radio Network ("Peter Weissbach Show"), WNYC ("On the Line"), WBZ (news and "David Brudnoy"), Voice of America, BBC World Service, WHDH-TV (Boston), ABC-TV, Fox New Channel ("The O'Reilly Factor"), CNN ("Burden of Proof")

Visiting Senior Scholar of the Woodruff Chair in International Law, University of Georgia School of Law, March 1997; former Visiting or Adjunct Professor at Harvard Law School, American University College of Law, and University of Virginia School of Law

Representative legal publications

Guide to International Human Rights Practice (ed.) (Transnational Publishers, 3d ed. 1999) [first edition awarded 1985 Certificate of Merit as "a work of great distinction" by the American Society of International Law]

Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1990, rev. ed. 1996)

International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice (Little Brown, 3d ed. 1995) [with R. Lillich]

U.S. Ratification of the International Covenants on Human Rights (ed.) (ASIL/Transnational, 1993) [with D. Fischer]

Documents on Autonomy and Minority Rights (Martinus Nijhoff, 1993)

New Directions in Human Rights (ed.) (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1989) [with E. Lutz and K. Burke]

The Right to Leave and Return in International Law and Practice (Martinus Nijhoff, 1987)

General Editor in charge of a series of approximately twenty volumes on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, published by Martinus Nijhoff; first volume appeared in 2001

"International Law," in Alexander J. Motyl, ed., Encyclopedia of Nationalism (Academic Press, 2001)

"Rights of Persons Belonging to Minorities," in Janusz Symonides, ed., Human Rights: Concept and Standards (Ashgate/UNESCO, 2000)

"Sovereignty and Its Relevance to Native Americans in the Twenty-First Century," 23 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1 (no. 2, 1999)

"The Specter of Secession: Responding to Ethnic Self-Determination Claims," 77 Foreign Affairs 13 (March/April 1998), excerpts reprinted as "Fractious spirit haunts nations," Montreal Gazette (21 Mar. 1998), and summarized in Alejandro Muñoz Alonso, "El espetro de la secesión," Diario ABC (Madrid) and Miami Herald (26 Mar. 1998)

"The Protection of Indigenous Rights in the Inter-American System," in David L. Harris and Stephen Livingstone, eds., The Inter-American System of Human Rights (Clarendon Press, 1998)

"The Status of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in National and International Law," 25 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 287 (1995/96), excerpted/reprinted in 3 Health & Hum. Rts. 144 (1998) and 12 Interights Bull. 3 (No. 1, 1998/99)

"Rethinking Self-Determination," 34 Va. J. Int'l L. 1 (1993), reprinted in Robert McCorquodale, ed., Self-Determination in International Law (Ashgate, 2000), and Robert J. Beck and Thomas Ambrosio, eds., International Law and the Rise of Nations: The State System and the Challenge of Ethnic Groups (Chatham House, 2001)

Other publications

The Fine Wines of California (Doubleday, 1971, 3d ed. 1984) [with R. Blumberg]

Brandies and Liqueurs of the World (Doubleday, 1976) [with R. Blumberg]

Education

J.D., Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Graduate studies in French, University of California, Berkeley; Teaching Assistant

A.B. with High Honors in Political Science and French, University of California, Berkeley; (one year undergraduate study at the University of Bordeaux, France); member, Phi Beta Kappa

Languages: English (native) and French (reasonably fluent)