Ruth Wedgwood

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Ruth Wedgwood (née Glushien) holds the Edward B. Burling Chair in International Law.

1 Family origins
2 Current career
3 Previous career
4 External links

[edit] Family origins

She is the daughter of the lawyer Morris P. Glushien and his wife Anne S. Glushien (née Williams), an artist and translator. In 1982 she married the physician Josiah F. Wedgwood, son of Ralph J. Wedgwood, grandson of Josiah Wedgwood V and great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood [1].

[edit] Current career

She is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman of Research and Studies for the American Society of International Law; a member of the policy advisory group of the United Nations Association; an adviser to the Department of Defense on the issue of military tribunals in response to the September 11 crisis; a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law and the National Security Study Group of the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security in the 21st Century; on the board of editors for the American Journal of International Law and the editorial advisory board of the World Policy Journal of the New School University; and she is a board member of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. Wedgwood also teaches at Johns Hopkins University's Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

[edit] Previous career

She has served as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in 1998-1999. She was also a tenured professor at Yale Law School until she left on sabbatical leave to accept the Edward B. Burling Chair at SAIS.