Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor
Clark earned his B.A. and LL.B. in 1964, an LL.M. in 1967, and an LL.D.
in 1997 at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He earned
an LL.M. in 1968 and a J.S.D. in 1972 at Columbia University School of
Law. Prior to entering the law teaching profession, Professor Clark was
with the New Zealand Departments of Justice and Foreign Affairs. He
taught in the 1960s at Victoria University and in 1971-1972 at the
University of Iowa, joining the Rutgers faculty in the fall of 1972.
During his 30 plus years at Rutgers, he has found time to make visiting
teaching appearances in Paris, Dublin, Miami, Graz, Salzburg, Tokyo,
Rome, Beijing, and Athens, as well as in New Zealand. In 1995 and 1996,
he represented the government of Samoa in the International Court of
Justice in a case concerning the legality of nuclear weapons. He
subsequently represented Samoa in the negotiations open to all states
in the international community that resulted in the creation of a
permanent International Criminal Court in The Hague. He continues to be
engaged in the details of getting that court up and running. He is a
member of the American Society of International Law and the American
Law Institute. His teaching and scholarly interests are primarily in
the areas of international law and criminal law. Among his many
publications are the books A United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1972), The United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program (1994), The
Case against the Bomb: Marshall Islands, Samoa, and Solomon Islands
before the International Court of Justice in Proceedings on the
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (1996), and the coauthored work International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials
(2004), which received the Book of the Year from the
International Association of Penal Law. Professor
Clark ran in four Boston marathons in the 1960s and 70s but these
days competes in shorter distances in the 65 and over age group. |
