Justice Richard Goldstone

Richard J. Goldstone has served as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as the Chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has taught at New York University, Harvard, and Fordham Law Schools. He is presently a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

In April 2004, he was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Independent International Committee, chaired by Paul Volcker, to investigate the Iraq Oil for Food program. He is co-chair of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. His most recent appointment is to chair a UN Committee to advise the United Nations on appropriate steps to preserve of the archives and legacy of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Goldstone is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary member of the Association of the Bar of New York. He is an honorary member of the Inner Temple, London and an honorary fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He also serves on the boards of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Center for Economic and Social Rights.

In May, 2007 he received the Richard E. Neustadt Award from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In January 2007 he received the World Peace through Law Award from the Whitney Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies at International Law at Washington University in St. Louis.