BRIEF personality profile of: DR. FAROOQ HASSAN As a tenured professor of law in the US he taught at different universities such as Oxford, London, Columbia, Tufts and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, American, San Diego and Willamette; at Harvard he was on the Faculty in two graduate Schools, namely, that of Law and Foreign Affairs. As an acknowledged expert in strategic affairs and law he has addressed numerous international conferences and at the Foreign Service Institute Washington DC, at the National Defense College, and the Administrative Staff College in Pakistan. For specific courses, he has taught at The Hague Academy of International Law, Humanitarian Law Institute, Italy, Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva and the International Institute of Human Rights, France. He has been a Bar Examiner in California, and of PhD candidates from Universities in India, UK and Pakistan. He is also an author of over twenty-five books, and of over one hundred professional Articles (most published by Law Review Journals of American and British Universities) and a regular syndicated columnist in Pakistani newspapers such as Jang, News, Nation and Dawn. His views have also appeared in leading international journals such as The Time, Newsweek, NY Times and The Boston Globe. He has also appeared on worldwide TV and media programs of CNN, FOX, VOA and the BBC as an expert during international crises. He has received Awards of Recognition from Massachusetts Senate, US Government and State and civic Agencies and Universities and is included in Reference works such as, International Who’s Who, Who’s Who in America, Directory of American Scholars and the Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan. Advisor to four Prime Ministers and Government of Pakistan on Law and Foreign Affairs he was Pakistan’s Special Envoy to the US Congress in 1987-88; his recent diplomatic assignments include the UN General Assembly Sessions in New York since 1997, as a Delegate to the UN Geneva Human Rights Commission and the Sub-Commission and as Leader of Pakistan’s delegation at the UN preparing the Statute of the International Criminal Court during 1997-1999. As a lawyer, he has litigated landmark civil human rights’ cases before the highest courts of Pakistan and before judicial institutions in US, Canada, UK, Europe and Pakistan. He is also currently the Director General of the Boston based American Institute of Asian Strategic Studies, President of the Human Rights League of Pakistan, Chairman Pakistan Ecology Council and the Chairman of the Pakistan Family Forum. For 2003-04 he was Chair of the Pakistan Bar International Affairs Committee at Lahore. In 2004 he was also appointed as Special UN Ambassador for Family by the World Family Alliance. In 2002 he won the highly prestigious King Faisal Memorial Award. In 2003 he received the coveted International Professor of Human Rights & Shariah Award in Saudi Arabia from amongst a galaxy of international scholars in the field. In 2003 he was appointed David M. Kennedy Visiting Scholar; in 2004 he became the first Pakistani scholar to teach in India when he was given the distinction of being appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the renowned JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) in Delhi. His other notable recent addresses in India have been as a Memorial Speaker at Benaras Hindu University and at University of Mumbai faculties of Law and International Affairs, Institute of Strategic & Defense Studies, SAPRA, Chavan Center and at the Ambadkar Constitutional Center in Aurganabad. In September 2006 he was awarded the exclusive London World Islamic International Award for Family. Search engine such as Google has well over a quarter of million entries on him giving details of his recent writings, addresses and famous cases.
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