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Jack M. Beard
Lecturer in Law
B.S.F.S. Georgetown University, 1980
J.D. University of Michigan, 1983
LL.M. Georgetown University, 1989
beard@law.ucla.edu
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Jack Beard teaches Public International Law, National Security Law, and a seminar entitled U.S. Constitution and Foreign Affairs. From 1990 to 2004, he served as Associate Deputy General Counsel (International Affairs), Office of the Secretary of Defense, and was responsible for legal matters related to international defense cooperation and status of forces issues, nonproliferation and international nuclear material control activities, and programs assisting states of the former Soviet Union in the dismantlement of weapons of mass destruction. He served as the senior legal adviser on U.S. Government delegations negotiating numerous international agreements in the former Soviet Union and the Near East and South Asia Region. Prior to joining the Office of General Counsel in 1990, he held several positions in government and was also previously engaged in private law practice in Washington, D.C. He has written articles on international law and the use of force, the law of war, terrorism, and international efforts to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Professor Beard was elected Professor of the Year by the UCLA Law Class of 2008. He was also selected to receive the Excellence in Teaching Award by the graduating class of 2003 at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he was a Professorial Lecturer for nine years. In 2001, he received the Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as an Adjunct Professor for over eleven years. He was a visiting professor (on detail from the Office of the Secretary of Defense) at the Department of Political Science, U.S. Naval Academy, from 2002-04.
His recent publications include Law and War in the Virtual Era, 103 AJIL 409 (2009); The Geneva Boomerang: The Military Commissions Act of 2006 and U.S. Counterterror Operations, 101 AJIL 56 (2007); The Shortcomings of Indeterminacy in Arms Control Regimes: The Case of the Biological Weapons Convention, 101 AJIL 271 (2007); and The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime and Nuclear Realities: Repair or Reassessment?, 101 Am. Soc’y Int’l L Proc. 438 (2007).
