The chair was created 20 years ago for Louis Sohn (below right), an international law luminary involved in, among many other things, the San Francisco Conference at which the U.N. Charter was adopted, the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, the U.N. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the landmark environmental conference in Stockholm. Sohn, who died in 2006 at age 92, was a colleague of Dean Rusk, the former U.S. Secretary of State who founded Georgia Law's Dean Rusk Center. Directing the Center these days is former U.S. Rep. Don Johnson; I look forward to working with him, international law scholars Harlan Cohen, Tim Meyer, and Bo Rutledge, Dean Rebecca H. White, and all on the faculty at Georgia Law. (Thanks to Georgia Law librarian Sharon Bradley for the photo of Sohn, by Athens attorney Paige Otwell.)
My husband, Peter O'Neill, whom the University of Southern California this past December awarded a much-deserved Ph.D. in Literature, will become an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the same university, located in Athens, a vibrant community northeast of Atlanta that our family looks forward to joining.

I am most humbled to have the honor now to don Louis Sohn's signature beret.
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We should create a ceremony for the receipt of your 'Sohn' beret. Perhaps a group of Louis' former international law students could invest you with your official "beret of international law" at the ABILA International Law Weekend this fall.
Thank you for that lovely thought, Caitlyn! Diane
Congratulations Diane.
Forgive the cliche, but California's loss is Georgia's gain.
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