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Integrating Policy Challenges of Small-Structure Sciences and Emerging Threatsby Barry Kellman, Professor of International Law, Director of the International Weapons Control Center, DePaul University College of Law CISSM Forum Announcement dated 09/27/2007 Barry Kellman (J.D., Yale 1976; B.A., U. of Chicago 1973) is professor of international law and Director of the International Weapons Control Center at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Ill. He is Senior Chair of the ABA Committee on International Security of the Section on International Law.Professor Kellman’s work for the past six years has focused on biological terrorism. He initiated and is Special Advisor to the Interpol Program on Prevention of Bio-Crimes. He served as legal adviser to the National Commission on Terrorism (2000), and was a member of the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Research Standards and Practices To Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology (2003). His forthcoming book, Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime will be published August, 2007 (Cambridge U. Press). He works closely with the United Nations, many international and regional bodies, as well as with the United States and foreign governments. He has organized ten major international workshops on bioterrorism and speaks often at other conferences and symposia around the world. Professor Kellman’s professional work has long been concerned with weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism. He worked for ratification and implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention as lead author of the Manual for National Implementation of the CWC (1993; 2nd ed. 1998) and by testifying to Congress as to the constitutionality of its inspection scheme (1997). He was commissioned by the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) to draft, Managing Terrorism’s Consequences (2003) which reviews legal authorities for responding to terror activity in the United States. He has published widely on: weapons proliferation and smuggling, the laws of armed conflict, Middle East arms control, and nuclear non�'proliferation. |
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