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The Hudson Medal is given for “outstanding contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law.” For many of us, Lori is the personification of the American Society of International Law. The essential elements of her biography are deceptively simple. She grew up in California, entered Yale College in the fall of 1970, in only the second year of coeducation there, where she majored in Russian and East European studies—streaking through the place in only three years and graduating summa cum laude. She received her JD three years later from Yale Law School and stayed in New Haven to clerk for Judge Jon O. Newman. She served as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of State from September of 1977 through January of 1981 and then worked at Sullivan & Cromwell through 1984. She has been at Columbia Law School ever since.
This conversation was convened at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 7, 2022. The Honoree was Lori Fisler Damrosch of Columbia Law School, the 2022 Manley O. Hudson Medal recipient. The Discussant was José Alvarez of NYU School of Law.
President Catherine Amirfar opened the event by welcoming participants to the Hudson Medal conversation and thanking ASIL Law Firm Partner Allen & Overy for its sponsorship of the 2022 Hudson Medal luncheon. She then gave the floor to Patrick Pearsall, partner at Allen & Overy, for introductions of the Hudson Medal Honoree, Lori Fisler Damrosch, and her interviewer, José E. Alvarez.
Patrick Pearsall noted that he had known Lori Damrosch going back to when he had been a student at Columbia Law School, where she is the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy. Later they had worked together as colleagues, especially in connection with preparing an amicus brief for the U.S. Supreme Court on an issue involving immunities of international organizations under U.S. and international law. He then introduced José Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at NYU Law School, for their interview.