Col. (ret.) Rick Lorenz, senior lecturer, UW Law School and UW Jackson School of International Studies will discuss and take questions about the international humanitarian law obligations of the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Time/Place:
May 25, 2010, Noon-1:00 p.m. at the WSBA office, 1325 4th Ave., Ste. 600, Seattle.
Sponsor:
Washington State Bar Association Section on World Peace Through Law http://www.wsba.org/lawyers/groups/worldpeace/
CLE Credit:
Approved for 1 general CLE credit.
Cost:
Free for Section members and law students; $25 for others.
Register now:
https://pro.wsba.org/forms/cle/M100427.asp
We hope to see you there!
Frederick "Rick" Lorenz served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 27 years as a judge advocate, including a tour as an infantry company commander. He was the senior legal advisor for the United Nations authorized military intervention in Somalia in 1992, returning there as senior legal advisor for the U.N. evacuation in 1995. In 1996 he served in Bosnia as a legal advisor for the NATO implementation force, and went on to teach Political Science at the National Defense University. After his retirement as a colonel in 1998, he served as a United Nations legal affairs officer in Kosovo, working in the U.N. Civil Administration.
Lorenz was a regular lecturer at the Canadian Peacekeeping Centre and has served with Canadian military and civilian peacekeepers on three continents. As a senior lecturer at the Jackson School of International Studies and the School of Law, University of Washington, he teaches international humanitarian law, international law and the use of force, and water and security in the Middle East. Lorenz previously spoke to the Section in September 2004 on "Prisoner Abuse, American Law & the Geneva Conventions."
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