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Henry T. King Jr., professor at the CWRU
School of Law; and Sidney I. Picker Jr., emeritus professor at
the law school, have received honorary degrees from universities
in Canada and Russia, respectively, for their work in international
legal education.
King received a doctor of civil laws degree
from the University of Western Ontario in London at that university's
spring convocation this month. Picker received an honorary doctorate
degree from St. Petersburg State University last month and another
shortly afterwards from Novgorod State University.
"We are extremely proud that professors
King and Picker are being recognized for their academic and public
achievements," said Gerald Korngold, dean and McCurdy Professor
of Law. "Both have had long and distinguished teaching careers
and have ably served international ideals. Their honors are well
deserved."
King's degree is for his work on behalf
of the Canada-United States Law Institute, a joint enterprise
of the CWRU School of Law and the University of Western Ontario.
King has been the CWRU director of the institute since 1983. Among
other activities, the institute sponsors an annual conference
examining specific aspects of Canadian-U.S. relations in their
legal and economic contexts and the annual Niagara Moot Court
competition for Canadian and U.S. law schools.
He joined the CWRU law school faculty in
1983. Prior to that he served as chief corporate international
counsel for TRW Inc. He began his public legal career at age 26
as one of the youngest members of the U.S. prosecution team at
the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.
Picker came to the CWRU law school in 1969.
Earlier he practiced law in Los Angeles and served as counsel
to the Export-Import Bank and to the office of the Special Trade
Representative (now the United States Trade Representative) during
the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He has also been a consultant
to the World Bank on Russian legal education.
Among his many achievements at the law
school, Picker served as the founding director of the Canada-U.S.
Law Institute and as director of the Frederick K. Cox International
Law Center. Picker became an emeritus professor at the start of
2002.
More recently, Picker and his wife Jane
Picker established the Russia-U.S. Legal Foundation (RUSLEF),
a nonprofit organization that brings Russian law students to law
schools in the United States for a year of study. RUSLEF also
makes gifts to Russian law school libraries, grants to Russian
law students to intern at the United Nations and supports the
establishment of the Jessup International Moot Court Competition
in Russia.
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