Hardy Cross Dillard

Hardy Cross Dillard, 1964

Hardy Cross Dillard (born  October 23, 1902 in New Orleans , †  May 12, 1982 in Charlottesville ) was an American lawyer . He worked from 1931 to 1970 as a professor at the University of Virginia , including from 1963 to 1968 dean of its law school, and from 1970 to 1979 as a judge at the International Court of Justice . From 1962 to 1963 he was President of the American Society for International Law , which awarded him the Manley O. Hudson Medal in 1982 .

Life

Hardy Dillard was born in New Orleans in 1902 and studied first for a year at the University of Virginia and then from 1920 at the United States Military Academy in West Point , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1924 . He then retired from active military service due to the army's low need for soldiers at the time. After returning to the University of Virginia, he completed his legal training there in 1927 as a Juris Doctor . He then worked at the university until 1968, including initially as a substitute professor, from 1931 to 1933 as assistant professor, from 1933 to 1938 as associate professor, from 1938 to 1958 as full professor and from 1958 to 1968 as James Monroe professor for Law Sciences. During this time he was deputy dean from 1937 to 1940 and dean of the law faculty from 1963 to 1968. In 1957 he taught as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law , and from 1962 to 1963 he was visiting professor at Columbia University .

After the 1954 decision taken in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Brown v. Board of Education he campaigned in the following years against the political movement known as Massive resistance in the state of Virginia , which opposed the desegregation in public schools resulting from the court decision . In the following years he actively supported the desegregation in Virginia's school system in the 1960s . Hardy Dillard was co-editor of the legal journals American Journal of International Law and American Journal of Comparative Law , and served as President of the American Society for International Law from 1962 to 1963 . He was also a longtime advisor to the National War College and the United States Air Force Academy . From 1970 to 1979 he succeeded his compatriot Philip Jessup for a regular nine-year term as judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague . He was followed in February 1979 by Richard Reeve Baxter , who however died in office in September 1980, and at the beginning of 1981 Stephen Myron Schwebel . He was also a member of the Arbitration Court in the Beagle Conflict from 1971 to 1977 .

Hardy Dillard was married from 1934 and had a son and a daughter. In 1972, two years after the death of his first wife, he remarried. He died in Charlottesville in 1982 .

Awards

Hardy Dillard received the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award from Columbia University in 1979 and the Manley O. Hudson Medal in 1982 , the highest award of the American Society for International Law. Named after him are a scholarship and an academic award for students at the University of Virginia.

Works (selection)

• Some Aspects of Law and Diplomacy. Series: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. Volume 91.The Hague 1957
• Law and Conflict: Some Current Dilemmas. Lexington 1967
• Hardy Cross Dillard: Writings and Speeches. Charlottesville 1995 (as Associate Editor)

literature

• Gregg. A. Cooke: The Jurisprudence of Hardy Dillard: An Analysis of His International Court of Justice Opinions. Charlottesville 1981
• Lewis F. Powell, Jr .: Judge Hardy Cross Dillard. In: Virginia Law Review. 69 (5) / 1983. The Virginia Law Review Association, pp. 805-808, ISSN  0042-6601
• Hardy Cross Dillard. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 275

Web links

• ASIL Presidents: Hardy Cross Dillard Short biography with picture (English)