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 (third edition, 2010), the second edition of which received the Book of the
Year Award from the International Association of Penal Law. Professor Clark ran in
four Boston marathons in the 1960s and 1970s, but these days competes in shorter
distances in the 65-and-over age group.
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