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Unconfirmed

Mr. Dillard's nomination still has to be
confirmed by the United Nations Security
Council and General Assembly this fall.
Confirmation seems relatively assured. The
United Nations has traditionally kept one
representative from the United States on the
court. If confirmed, Mr. Dillard will succeed
Philip Jessup as this nation's representative to
the court in February.

Mr. Dillard will not be the first member of
the University community to serve on the
court. John Bassett Moore, a Columbia Law
School graduate, who also attended the
University as a graduate student, was the first
United States representative to the Permanent
Court of International Justice in 1922. The
International Court of Justice succeeded that
court in 1945. It is an organ of the United
Nations and serves to decide cases submitted to
it by member nations and to render advisory
opinions to the Security Council, the General
Assembly, and the specialized agencies of the
United Nations.

Mr. Dillard, who attended the University
Law School from 1924-7, has had a distinguished
career in the field of law. He was a
Fulbright Lecturer at Oxford in 1953 and a
Carnegie Lecturer at the Hague Academy of
International Law in 1957.

Mr. Dillard also served as a committee
member for UNESCO and served on the 1968
Committee to Revise the Constitution of
Virginia. Mr. Dillard was President of the
American Society of International Law from
1962-3.

When he retired as dean in 1968, both the
Virginia Law Review and the Virginia Journal
of International Law dedicated issues in his
honor to which many scholars contributed.