Eugene V. Rostov

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Eugene Rostov, 1981

Eugene Victor Debs Rostow (born August 25, 1913 in Brooklyn , New York City , †  November 25, 2002 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American legal scholar and author .

Life

After his school days , Eugene Rostov, named after the socialist Eugene V. Debs by his parents, studied law . After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer in a law firm in New York City. He later became dean of Yale Law School from 1955 to 1965 . His successor as dean was Louis Heilprin Pollak . In 1956 Rostov was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1966 to 1969 was Rostov State Secretary for Political Affairs ( Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs ) under President Lyndon B. Johnson . He then returned to Yale University , where he as a professor of the Legal Profession taught. Rostov wrote several books as an author.

Concerned about Soviet military expansion policy, he was an active member of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority in the 1970s and was appointed head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 . He actively campaigned for the implementation of the Geneva Convention .

He was also President of the Atlantic Treaty Association from 1972 to 1976 .

Rostov was married to Edna Greenberg and had three children.

Works (selection)

  • 1948: A National Policy for the Oil Industry
  • 1959: Planning for Freedom
  • 1962: The Sovereign Prerogative
  • 1968: Law, Power, and the Pursuit of Peace
  • 1971: Is Law Dead?
  • 1978: The Ideal in Law
  • 1993: A Breakfast for Bonaparte. US national security interests from the Heights of Abraham to the nuclear age.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Peter Scoblic (2008): Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Under Mined America's Security ISBN 0-670-01882-1 . Page 126
  2. ^ The Settlements Issue: Distorting the Geneva Convention and the Oslo Accords at jcpa.org, accessed November 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Rostov, Eugene V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rostov, Eugene Victor Debs (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2002
Place of death Alexandria , Virginia