Professor Donald Horowitz has been appointed to the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, and Professors Curtis Bradley and Madeline Morris have been appointed to the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law. Morris, additionally, has recently been appointed chief counsel to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel in the Office of Military Commissions of the Department of Defense.

The Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, which held its inaugural meeting in November in Washington, D.C., includes 15 academics and leaders of institutions and organizations who work globally in democratization, electoral system reform, constitution-building, and the promotion of human rights and civil society, among other areas. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice established the Committee to provide her and the administrator of the Agency for International Development (USAID) with advice on issues related to democracy promotion in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy and foreign assistance, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of State.

Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, has written extensively on the problems of divided societies and issues related to constitution building. His books include The Deadly Ethnic Riot (2001), Ethnic Groups in Conflict (1985; 2d ed. 2000), and A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (1991), and he has also published an extensive study of Islamic law and the theory of legal change. He has consulted widely on institutions and policies that might be adopted to promote democracy and reduce ethnic strife in such areas as Russia, Romania, Nigeria, Tatarstan, Fiji, and Northern Ireland.

The Advisory Committee on International Law brings together professors, practitioners, and policymakers who are expert in international law to provide timely and relevant advice on significant issues of international law to Secretary Rice and her legal adviser.The Advisory Committee typically meets twice a year at the State Department.

A specialist in international law and U.S. foreign relations law, Bradley, Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law, joined the Duke faculty in 2005 after teaching at the University of Virginia and University of Colorado law schools. In 2004 he served as counselor on international law in the Legal Adviser’s Office of the U.S. State Department. He has written numerous articles concerning both international law and U.S. foreign relations law and has co-authored two-casebooks, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (with Jack Goldsmith), and International Law (with Barry Carter and Phillip Trimble). He is currently working on a book concerning international law in the U.S. legal system. Bradley is the director of Duke Law School’s Center for International and Comparative Law.

An expert in public international law and, in particular, international criminal law and international criminal jurisdiction, Morris was also recently appointed chief counsel to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for the detainees at Guantanamo in their proceedings before U.S. military commissions, United States Department of Defense. Also the director of the Law School’s Guantanamo Defense Clinic, Morris has served as advisor to the chief defense counsel, Col. Dwight Sullivan, since 2005.

Morris has served as senior legal counsel, Office of the Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone; has provided consultation to the U.S. State Department, Office of War Crimes Issues; and has served as advisor on justice to the president of Rwanda, as special consultant to the secretary of the U.S. Army, as co-convenor of the Inter-African Cooperation on Truth and Justice program, and as consultant and adjunct faculty member of the U.S. Naval Justice School. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association’s Central and East European Law Initiative, and has published widely in the areas of public international law, international human rights, international criminal law, and international criminal jurisdiction.