Living history interview With Lucy Reed

• Pages: 143-155

LIVING HISTORY INTERVIEW

With

LUCY REED

One of the unique features of Transnational Law and Contempor ary

Problems (“TLCP”) is the publication of a “Living History Interview” with a

person of international accomplishment and renown. The Living History

Interview complements the symposium format of TLCP by blending theory

and practice, thus giving a pract ical perspective to the questions e xamined in

the symposium. The purpose of the Living History Interview is to invite the

responses of a prominent international scholar, jurist, or politician—not to

explore his or her professional point of v iew, but to gain insight into his or

her personal perspectives as shaped by historical events in order to better

understand the complex nature of international law. For this feature of

TLCP, we conducted an interview with Lucy Reed, who served as the

President of the American Society fo r International Law from 2008 to 2010.