John Burroughs, J.D., Ph. D., holds his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law and his Ph.D. in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, based in New York, and Adjunct Professor of International Law at Rutgers Law School. He is author of The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice(Lit Verlag, 1998)