Stephen M. Schwebel has been a practitioner, professor, government legal adviser, judge and arbitrator. He gained early experience in international arbitration while practising law in New York with White and Case (1954 59), taught international law, commercial law and contracts as an assistant professor at Harvard Law School (1959 61), and served as Assistant Legal Adviser for UN Affairs of the U.S. Department of State (1961 66). In the years 1967 72, he was the executive director of the American Society of International Law and Burling Professor of International Law at the School of Advanced