Dean’s Roundtable with Max Kampelman ’45, Chairman Emeritus of Georgetown’s American Academy of Diplomacy
Regularly during the school year, the dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Over lunch with a small group of students, guests speak autobiographically about their work experiences, sharing valuable insight about how they found their chosen path. Please note that the roundtables are informal and off-the-record.
Max M. Kampelman ‘45, who will be the dean’s guest on Thursday, April 9, has had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer, diplomat and educator.
Currently, Max serves as chairman emeritus of the American Academy of Diplomacy, Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Freedom House. He is on the board of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, and he also serves as Counselor of the American Bar Association (ABA) Committee on Law and National Security and the ABA’s Special Committee on the Central and Eastern European Law Initiative. He is of counsel at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, which he first joined in 1955.
He served as head of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe under Presidents Carter and Reagan. He also was ambassador and head of the U.S. delegation to the negotiations with the Soviet Union on nuclear and space arms in Geneva, and was counselor of the Department of State. He previously was a senior advisor to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations; legislative counsel to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey; vice chairman of the United States Institute of Peace; and chairman of the Board of Governors of the United Nations Association. Currently, he is honorary chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation and honorary governor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 1999, Max was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton. He also is the recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal and the Publius Award from the Center for the Study for the Presidency. In 2000, he was among those receiving the first Library of Congress Living Legend awards.
Max received his J.D. from NYU Law in 1945 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota, where he taught from 1946 to 1948. He is the recipient of 13 honorary doctorates, has served on the faculties of Bennington College, Claremont College, the University of Wisconsin, and Howard University, and lectures frequently in the U.S. and abroad. He has written extensively in scholarly and public affairs journals and is the author of several books. He served on the governing boards of a number of universities, was the founding chairman of the Friends of the National Zoo, and currently serves on a number of corporate and not-for-profit boards.
Earlier in his career, Max was a founder and moderator of the public affairs television program Washington Week in Review, chairman of the Washington public broadcasting radio and television stations, and founding chairman of the Friends of the National Zoo.
The dean’s roundtable will be open to 18 interested NYU School of Law J.D. and graduate students. The roundtable will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Snow Dining Room, on the fourth floor of Vanderbilt Hall. Lunch will be served. If you would like to attend, please sign up in advance by calling Penelope Fernandes at (212) 998-6003 or by emailing her at penelope.fernandes@nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a J.D. or graduate student, and whether you have any dietary restrictions.
March 31st 2009
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